FOMI 2024 - Call for Papers

Dear Colleagues,

please find here below the Call for Papers of the 13th International 
Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry (FOMI 2024), part of the 
Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2024) co-located with 14th International 
Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024), 15-19 
July 2024, Enschede, Netherlands.

You are encouraged to submit full or short research papers.

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

Thanks and best regards,
Walter Terkaj


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*Important dates*
- 24 April 2024: Paper submission deadline.
- 22 May 2024: Notification of acceptance.
- 15-19 July 2024: JOWO workshop days co-located with FOIS 2024 (exact 
FOMI date TBD).
- 30 July 2024: Camera-ready submission (post-conference proceedings).

*Website*
https://appliedontolab.github.io/fomi2024/
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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 often seem very promising, but their implementation 
brings up unexpected problems and issues. The FOMI 2024 Workshop aims to 
collect valuable experiences and lessons learned by the presentation of:
- Experience with problems in ontology application.
- New insights on known problematic issues.
- New results.
- Successes and observations in ontology implementation.
- Lessons learned on the best way to apply ontological methodologies to 
real-world situations.

FOMI 2024 will facilitate open discussion and experience sharing. 
Similar problems arise in disparate ontology applications and an open 
discussion helps to highlight commonalities and to spread ideas for 
possible solutions. 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.

The FOMI series is supported by the International Association for 
Ontology and its Applications (IAOA; https://iaoa.org/) and organized by 
the IAOA-ISTC committee 
(https://iaoa.org/index.php/faq/industry-and-standards-technical-committee/).


*Topics of interest (not exhaustive) *
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1) 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.
2) 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.
3) 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 *
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Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format following the 
new CEURART Style guidelines for 1-column format 
(https://appliedontolab.github.io/fomi2024/download/paper_template.zip) 
via Easy Chair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fois2024). Two 
types of submission are available:
- Full research papers: min. 10 pages, max. 12 pages (including 
references).
- Short paper: between 5 and 9 pages. This track is intended for 
researchers and practitioners who want to share their practical 
experiences with ontologies or ontology-based software.

Please consider the FAIR guidelines for the submission of your paper: 
https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/fair-4-fois/


*Publication*
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All contributions to JOWO workshops will be published in a joint CEUR 
proceedings volume.


*Registration*
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Information about the registration to the workshop will be published on 
the FOIS website (https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/).

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Organizing Committee *
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- Anna Fensel, Wageningen University, Netherlands <anna.fensel@wur.nl>
- Francesco Compagno, CNR-ISTC, Italy <francesco.compagno@loa.istc.cnr.it>
- Walter Terkaj, CNR-STIIMA, Italy <walter.terkaj@stiima.cnr.it>


*Program Committee*
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- Alessandro Oltramari, Bosch, USA
- Alessandro Umbrico, CNR-ISTC, Italy
- Ana Correia, ATB-Bremen, Germany
- Arkopaul Sarkar, INP-ENIT, University of Toulouse, France
- Bahar Aameri, University of Toronto, Canada
- Boonserm Kulvatunyou, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
- Daniele Spoladore, CNR-STIIMA, Italy
- Elisa Negri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Emilio Sanfilippo, CNR-ISTC, Italy
- Francesco Zaccarini, University of Bologna, Italy
- Hervé Panetto, University of Lorraine, France
- Laura Daniele, TNO, Netherlands
- Laure Vieu, IRIT-CNRS, France
- Lorenzo Solano, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
- Marcela Vegetti, CONICET, Argentina
- María Poveda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Peter Klein, Fraunhofer ITWM, Germany
- Pieter Pauwels, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
- Rebeca Arista, Airbus, France
- Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and 
Technology, Japan
- Silvia Chiacchiera, STFC UKRI, UK

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