=================== CALL FOR TUTORIALS =================== 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems 08-12 September 2025 (Catania, Italy) Website: https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/ ================================ Submission deadline: 28 February 2025
 Questions to: tutorials-fois2025(a)easychair.org ================================ The Tutorial Chairs for FOIS 2025 invite proposals for tutorials to be held on-site in conjunction with FOIS 2025, during the week of the main conference which will take place 08-12 September 2025 in Catania, Italy. FOIS 2025 seeks original and highly relevant proposals for tutorials to complement the conference program. The tutorial program will address the diverse interests of its audience: ontologies, formal ontology, and knowledge management and their application in information science or other areas. Moreover, tutorials can be an excellent opportunity to cover basic or advanced topics related to ontology research, ranging from cognitive science to knowledge representation, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, logic, philosophy, and linguistics as well as well-established or emerging research areas, techniques, methodologies and perspectives related to the ontology field. In 2025, we are looking for individuals and teams of presenters who would like to offer a tutorial specifically designed as a basic or an advanced description of a topic, or as a showcase of relevant techniques. We privilege diversity in the organizing team as well as the presence of young researchers and PhD students. Moreover, up to 1 instructor per tutorial can have their registration fees waived for the tutorials as well as for JOWO 2025, the Joint Ontology Workshops (https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/?page_id=422) which are co-located with FOIS 2025. ====== Format ====== Tutorials are intended to be highly interactive, and educational, and should actively engage the audience to participate in the discussion. We accept short and long tutorials, which are expected to last 1h30 and 3h respectively. =================== Submission instructions =================== Proposals should be no more than 2 pages in length, and must contain the following information: - title; - names and affiliations of the presenters; - a brief CV of the presenters, including their experience in tutorial organization;
 Please indicate a primary contact person. - description of the topic (max 1 page); - brief description of the expected audience.
 Please give an estimate of the expected number of participants and their background and interests; if applicable, please relate this to participation in similar prior events; - 200-word abstract highlighting why the tutorial is attractive to FOIS 2025 participants – Why is it novel? What are key learning outcomes? Proposals should be submitted via EasyChair by 28 February 2025 as a single PDF file. A notification regarding your submission will be received on 14 March 2025. =============== Evaluation criteria =============== The decision on acceptance or rejection of tutorial proposals will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and its appeal to a reasonable fraction of the FOIS community. In particular, tutorials should satisfy each of the following criteria: - The research topic falls in the general scope of the conference. - There is a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or application. - There is an anticipation of a sufficiently large community interested in the topic. - There is a concrete plan for the tutorial format. - The presenters have reasonable experience in providing engaging lectures. - The material for the tutorial is made available to the FOIS 2025 community before the tutorial date. ============= Important dates ============= Submission deadline: 28 February 2025 Notification: 15 March 2025 Tutorials take place on-site in conjunction with FOIS 2025 in Catania, Italy (08-09 September 2025) ================ Terms and conditions ================ The presenters/instructors of accepted tutorials are expected to: - participate in the tutorial in person; - have an active role in the tutorial; - submit the material for attendees (slide sets, additional teaching material, software installation, question answering, and usage guides for practical hands-on sessions, e.g., Jupyter Notebooks.) to the Tutorial Chairs and make it available on the FOIS 2025 website at least one week prior to the date of the tutorial. ============ Tutorial chairs ============ Lucía Gómez Álvarez, University Grenoble Alpes, Inria, CNRS, Grenoble INPG, France Gilles Kassel, Jules Verne University of Picardie, France Please direct all further questions to tutorials-fois2025(a)easychair.org _________________________ | Lucía Gómez Álvarez INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, LIG, Grenoble, France | | lucia.gomez-alvarez at inria.fr https://moex.inria.fr<https://moex.inria.fr/> |