Important dates
- Paper Submission deadline (extended): 13 May 2020
- Notifications: 20 July 2020
- Final submission (accepted papers): 14 August 2020
Submissions
FOIS seeks full-length high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. An ideal FOIS paper will address both content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, as well as their impact and relevance for some aspect of information systems.
Submitted papers must not exceed 14 pages (including the bibliography) and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format following IOS Press formatting guidelines, which may be found at the following link: https://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/.
The Easychair submission page can be found at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2020.
Authors are limited to a maximum of two first-authored submissions, with no limit to the number of co-authored submissions, and a maximum of two presentations of accepted papers by any individual.
The proceedings will be published by IOS Press in electronic format with permanent open access.
Topics of interest
Areas of particular interest to FOIS include the following:
Foundational Issues:
- Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts
- Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation
- Vagueness and granularity
- Space, time, and change
Methodological issues
- Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies
- Role of reference ontologies
- Ontology similarity, integration and alignment
- Ontology modularity, contextuality, and evolution
- Formal comparison among ontologies
- Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, context
- Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs
Domain-specific ontologies
- Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion etc.)
- Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells etc.)
- Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions, cognition, etc.)
- Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles
- Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions etc.)
Applications:
- Ontology-driven information systems design
- Ontological foundations for conceptual modeling
- Knowledge management
- Qualitative modeling
- Computational linguistics
- Information retrieval
- Semantic Web
- Business modeling
- Ontologies and Machine Learning
- Ontologies and Explainable AI
- Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics etc.)
- Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture etc.
- Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, etc.
- Ontologies for the social sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology, etc.