FOIS 2014: Call for Workshop Proposals, due 1 December

(with apologies for cross-posting)

 

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

 

8th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS
2014)

September 22-25, 2014, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/home.html

Email: fois2014@gmail.com

 

Relevant dates

1 December 2013: Workshop proposal submission deadline

15 January 2014: Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals

22 May 2014: Recommended workshop paper submission deadline (after FOIS
notification deadline)

22 September 2014: FOIS Workshops

23-25 September 2014: FOIS main conference

 

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

 

Workshops at FOIS are scientific events that are independently

organized by the workshop organizers. The workshop organizers will be

responsible for advertising the workshop and reviewing and selecting

the contributions. Workshops can be events that provide a forum for

the discussion of topics that may complement the main conference or

focus on specialized sub-topics related to formal ontology and its

application in information systems.

 

We specifically invite proposals for workshops organized by IAOA

Special Interest Groups and Technical Committees.

 

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

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Areas of interest to the conference include the following:

 

- Specific Foundational Issues in Formal Ontology

- Ontology Evaluation

- Specific Issues in Ontology Methodologies

- Scientific applications

- Relations between Formal Ontology and the Semantic Web

- Visualization and accessibility

- Ontology Repositories

 

A full list of topics can be found on the conference website:
http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/call-for-papers.html

 

SUBMISSION

 

Workshop proposals should be no more than 2 pages in length, and must

contain the following information:

- title of the workshop

- names of the workshop organizers

- brief description of experience in workshop organization

- description of the workshop topic

- brief statement on the relation and relevance of the workshop to FOIS

- intended duration of the workshop (half-day, full-day)

- timeline for the workshop (submission dates, notification dates)

  Please consider the notification date of FOIS and the proposed

  Workshop Submission Deadline.  

- plans for publishing workshop proceedings

 

Workshop proposals should be submitted to the FOIS Workshop Track

through Easychair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014

 

EVALUATION

 

Submissions for workshop proposals will be evaluated by members of the

FOIS organizing and program committee, using the following criteria:

- Relevance and utility to attendees

- Quality of the proposal

- Likelihood of success of the workshop

- Complementarity with FOIS and overlap with other workshop

 

WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS

 

The proceedings of the FOIS workshops are usually published on-line by

the respective organizers and are not included in the main conference

proceeding volume published by IOS Press.

 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

 

General Chair: 

Laure Vieu (CNRS, France)

 

Program Chairs: 

Pawel Garbacz (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)

Oliver Kutz (University of Bremen, Germany)

 

Local Organization: 

Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University of Espirito Santo Brazil)

Renato Rocha Souza (FGV, Brazil)

 

Workshops:

Robert Hoehndorf (University of Cambridge, UK)

 

Ontology Competition:

Till Mossakowski (DFKI Bremen and University of Bremen, Germany)

 

Early Career Symposium:

Marion Haemmerli (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Torsten Hahmann (University of Toronto, Canada)

Claudio Masolo (ISTC-CNR, Italy)

 

Publicity:

Janna Hastings (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK)

Fernanda Baiao (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 

 

 

 

 

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