call for papers - FOMI 2019

(apologies for cross posting)

Dear LBD CG members,

please find here below the call for papers of the FOMI (Formal Ontology meets Industry) workshop, part of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2019), 23-25 September 2019, Graz, Austria (https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2019/).
You are encouraged to submit full research papers or extended abstracts.

Accepted papers will be published in a volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings (Scopus-indexed).

best regards,
Walter




* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 10th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies meet Industry

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Important dates

  *       31 May 2019 - Abstract submission deadline.
  *       15 June 2019 - Extended paper submission deadline.
  *       18 July 2019 - Notification of acceptance.
  *       15 August 2019 - Camera-ready version.
  *       23-25 September 2019 - JOWO workshop (exact FOMI date TBD).


Website:

http://stl.mie.utoronto.ca/fomi2019/home.html



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FOMI is an international forum where academic researchers and industrial practitioners meet to analyse and discuss application issues related to methods, theories, tools and applications based on formal ontologies. There is today wide agreement that knowledge modelling and the semantic dimension of information play an increasingly central role in networked economy: semantic-based applications aim to provide a framework for information and knowledge sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the same organization.
Theoretical ideas seem often very promising but their actual implementation brings up unexpected problems and issues. The FOMI 2019 Workshop aims to collect useful experiences and lessons learned by the presentation of:

  1.  Experience with problems in ontology application;
  2.  New insights on known problematic issues;
  3.  New results;
  4.  Successes and observations in ontology implementation;
  5.  Lessons learned on the best way to apply ontological methodologies to real-world situations.

FOMI 2019 will facilitate open discussion and experience sharing. Very similar problems arise in disparate ontology applications and an open discussion helps to highlight commonalities and to spread ideas for possible solutions. For this reason, FOMI welcomes researchers and practitioners that embrace this perspective without restrictions on the domains they deal with: business, medicine, engineering, finance, law, biology, geography, electronics, etc.


Workshop Topics

Problems in ontology application:

  *   Practical issues in using ontologies in enterprises;
  *   Real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology;
  *   From legacy systems to ontology-driven systems.

Ontology and knowledge management:

  *   Ontological methodologies in data modelling and knowledge management;
  *   Adaptation of formal ontologies for companies and organizations;
  *   Ontology development and change within companies/organizations;
  *   Ontology effectiveness and evaluation;
  *   Ontologies for the know-how;
  *   Ontologies for corporate knowledge.

Ontology in practice:

  *   Ontologies for engineering (manufacturing, design, etc.);
  *   Ontologies for electronic catalogues, e-commerce, e-government, etc.;
  *   Ontologies for marketing;
  *   Ontologies for finance;
  *   Ontologies for medical sciences;
  *   Ontologies for IoT.

Submissions

  *   Full research papers: max. 12 pages (including references).
  *   Extended Abstracts: max. 5 pages. This track is thought for researchers and practitioners who want to share their practical experiences with ontologies or ontology-based software. In the submitted abstracts, authors are expected to provide the motivations for adopting ontologies in their workflows, as well as the advantages or disadvantages due to the adoption of ontologies. In the case of ontology-based applications, the authors have to provide information concerning the use of the software, as well as the software functionalities implementing the ontologies (e.g., query, data annotation, consistency checks, reasoning, etc.). Authors whose abstracts are accepted for presentation will be asked to provide a short demo of the software during the workshop.

All contributions to JOWO workshops will be published in a joint CEUR proceedings volume.
(For the previous editions of the JOWO proceedings, see www.iaoa.org/jowo/<http://www.iaoa.org/jowo/>)


Workshop Chairs

Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada.
Walter Terkaj, Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing (STIIMA-CNR), Italy.

Program Committee

  *   Bob Young, Loughborough University
  *   Cheong Hyunmin, Autodesk Research
  *   Dimitris Mourtzis, University of Patras
  *   Dusan Sormaz, Ohio University
  *   Elisa Negri, Politecnico di Milano
  *   Emilio Sanfilippo, LE STUDIUM Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies, CESR - Universite de Tours
  *   Farhad Ameri, Texas State University
  *   Georg Schneider, Fraunhofer IBP
  *   Herve Panetto, University of Lorraine
  *   Lorenzo Solano, Polytechnic University of Valencia
  *   Maria Poveda Villalon, Technical University of Madrid (UPM)
  *   Minna Lanz, Tampere University of Technology
  *   Stefano Borgo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR)
  *   Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR)
  *   Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  *   Pedro Rosado, Jaume I University
  *   Pieter Pauwels, University of Ghent
  *   Tiago Sales, University of Trento


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Walter Terkaj, Ph.D.
Istituto di Sistemi e Tecnologie Industriali Intelligenti per il Manifatturiero Avanzato (STIIMA)
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
Via A.Corti, 12 - 20133 Milano
Italy

Tel.:   +39.02.23699607
e-mail: walter.terkaj@stiima.cnr.it<mailto:walter.terkaj@stiima.cnr.it>