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[FOIS 2023] Call for Papers: International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Deadline: January 31. 2023

by Lucia Gomez Alvarez

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Call for papers: FOIS 2023 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023), July 17-20, 2023 (Sherbrooke, QC, Canada) and Sept 18-20, 2023 (Online) http://fois2023.griis.ca For any questions, please email: fois2023(a)gmail.com Definition and scope The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. The conference encourages submission of high quality, not previously published results on both theoretical issues and practical advancements. FOIS 2023 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies. FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, as well as the Semantic Web. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: http://iaoa.org/), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology. Important dates • Paper submission deadline: 31 January 2023 • Author rebuttal period: March 24-31, 2023 (tentative) • Notifications: April 10, 2023 (tentative) • Camera-ready papers: May 1, 2023 • Onsite conference: July 17-20, 2023 • Virtual conference: week of September 18, 2023 The submission deadline for workshops will be after the notifications to allow authors to submit a revised version of rejected papers to any of the conference workshops if the paper topics are appropriate for this workshop. Location FOIS 2023 will consist of a physical meeting and a virtual meeting: • An in-person only meeting in Sherbrooke, Quebec from July 17 to 21, 2023 that will be very much like a traditional conference with keynotes, regular talks, workshops and tutorials and plenty of social and networking opportunities. This part will not have a remote participation option, but we plan on recording selected talks (e.g. keynotes). • This will be followed by an online part to be held from September 18 to 20, 2023 that offers an opportunity for presentation and discussion of additional papers that were not presented at the physical meeting in Sherbrooke. Submissions FOIS 2023 seeks three types of full-length (14 pages) high-quality papers on a wide range of topics: • Foundational papers address content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, and their relevance to some aspect of information systems. • Application and Methods papers address novel systems, methods, and tools related to building, evaluating, or using ontologies, emphasizing the impact of ontology contents. • Domain ontology papers describe a novel ontology for a specific realm of interest, clarifying ontological choices against requirements and foundational theory, and showing ontology use. Please refer to the Submissions Instructions (coming soon) for more details. As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press. 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, events/processes • 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, alignment, matching and entity reconciliation • Ontology modularity, patterns, and contextuality • Ontology evaluation, quality, reuse, adaptation, and evolution • Ontology compliance with FAIR principles • Formal comparison among ontologies • Relationship between conceptual modeling and ontologies • Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, and context • Connections between knowledge graphs and ontologies • Methodological issues in the applications of ontologies • Social issues, such as trust or bias, with respect to ontologies Applications • Technical applications of ontologies, such as • Semantic Web • Other areas of AI (Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Rules) • Qualitative modeling • Systems applications of ontologies, such as • Ontology-driven information systems design • Ontology-based data access • Knowledge management • Information retrieval • Computational linguistics • Metadata management • Domain applications of ontologies, such as • Ontologies for business modeling • 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. • Ontologies for Open Science and dataset sharing 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.) Conference Organization General Chair: Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK PC Chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France Torsten Hahmann, University of Maine, USA Local Organization Chair: Jean-François Ethier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Online Chair: Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy Early Career Chairs: Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE), France Guendalina Righetti, Free University Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Demo & Showcase Chairs: Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK TBA Publicity Chairs: Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland Proceedings Chair: Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweeden _________________________ Dr. Lucía Gómez Álvarez Computational Logic Group Institute for Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Computer Science TU Dresden GERMANY

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CfP: 17th Intl. Conf. on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA 2023)

by Gerd Stumme

================================================================================ ICFCA 2023 17th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis July 17-21, 2023, Kassel, Germany Web: https://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/icfca2023/ Mail: icfca2023(a)lists.cs.uni-kassel.de ================================================================================ # Overview Formal Concept Analysis emerged in the 1980's from attempts to restructure lattice theory in order to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potential users of lattice theory. Since its early years, Formal Concept Analysis has developed into a research field in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and a rapidly expanding range of applications in information and knowledge processing including visualization, data analysis (mining) and knowledge management and discovery. The ICFCA conference series aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working on theoretical or applied aspects of Formal Concept Analysis within major related areas such as Mathematics and Computer and Information Sciences and their diverse applications to fields like Software Engineering, Linguistics, Life and Social Sciences, etc. All accepted submissions will be refereed, and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. # Topics Main topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ## Fundamental aspects of FCA - FCA theory - Lattice theory - Lattice drawing - Philosophical foundations - Algorithms and complexity theory ## Bridging FCA to information sciences and artificial intelligence - FCA and logic, e.g., semantic web, description logics - FCA and conceptual structures, e.g., concept graphs, knowledge spaces - FCA and data analysis, e.g., hierarchical classification, data organization - FCA and data mining, e.g., pattern mining - FCA and information retrieval, e.g. exploratory search, navigation, querying - FCA and machine learning, e.g., learning with hypothesis, feature selection - FCA and database theory, e.g., dependencies, rules, data cubes - FCA and software engineering - FCA and morphological mathematics ## Understanding, modelling real-world data and phenomena with FCA - Analysis of "big data" with FCA, e.g., sampling, parallel computing - Analysis of social networks and their dynamics - Applications for scientific data analysis, e.g., in biology or health care - Applications for sensors data and user interactions traces - Other FCA applications # Submission Details We invite scientific publications on theory and applications of Formal Concept Analysis. Papers of up to sixteen pages may be submitted in the PDF format. This year, the conference uses the Springer EquinOCS platform as a submission system for the first time. (https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/ICFCA2023) All submissions should followthe formatting instructions for Springer's LNCS style. We encourage the use of LaTeX template files, available on the "Information for Authors" page at: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… In order to increase visibility, all authors should provide an ORCID number alongside their submission, see: https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/orcid Accepted papers have to be presented at the conference on-site. Therefore, at least one author per paper has to register timely and attend the conference on-site. # Important Dates - Abstract submission: January 27, 2023 - Full paper submission: February 3, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2023 - Camera ready papers: April 21, 2023 - Conference: July 17-21, 2023 # Organization ICFCA 2023 will be hosted at the University of Kassel. It will be a hybrid conference with a strong emphasis on on-site interaction. ## Conference Chair - Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany ## Program Chairs - Domingo López Rodríguez, Universidad de Málaga, Spain - Dominik Dürrschnabel, University of Kassel, Germany ## Editorial Board (tentative) - Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Catalonia - Florence Le Ber, Université de Strasbourg/ENGEES, CNRS, France - Peggy Cellier, IRISA lab, Rennes, France - Sebastien Ferré, Université de Rennes 1, France - Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany - Tom Hanika, University of Kassel, Germany - Dmitry Ignatov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Mehdi Kaytoue, INSA-Lyon, LIRIS, France - Sergei Kuznetsov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Leonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences - Rokia Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada - Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France - Sergei Obiedkov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia - Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, University of Malaga, Spain - Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany - Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Stefan E. Schmidt, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany - Barış Sertkaya, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany - Petko Valtchev, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada ## Program Committee (tentative) - Victor Codocedo, Instituto para la Resiliencia ante Desastres, Chile - Pablo Cordero, University of Málaga, Spain - Diana Cristea, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Christophe Demko, L3I lab, Université de La Rochelle, France - Jean Diatta, Université de la Réunion, France - Stephan Doerfel, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Germany - Xavier Dolques, ICube, Université de Strasbourg, France - Marianne Huchard, LIRMM, Université Montpellier, France - Jan Konecny, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic - Wilfried Lex, Universität Clausthal, Germany - Jesús Medina, Cadiz University, Spain - Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, LIMOS, Université de Clermont Ferrand 2, France - Jan Outrata, Palacky University of Olomouc, Czech Republic - Henry Soldano, Université Paris 13, France - Laszlo Szathmary, University of Debrecen, Hungary - Andreja Tepavčević, University of Novi Sad, Serbia - Martin Trnecka, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

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