1st CFP — EPISTEMOLOGY IN ONTOLOGIES (EPINON II 2018)

1st CFP — EPISTEMOLOGY IN ONTOLOGIES (EPINON II 2018) —

2nd International Workshop on EPISTEMOLOGY IN ONTOLOGIES
September 17-18 2018, Cape Town, South Africa
Part of The Joint Ontology Workshops JOWO 2018 @ FOIS 2018
Workshop Webpage: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/epinon2018/home.html
JOWO 2018 Webpage: http://www.iaoa.org/jowo2018/



DESCRIPTION: Formal ontologies and knowledge representation mainly focus on
characterising how a given domain is structured, i.e., they identify a set
of concepts, entities, and relations together with the constraints that
hold for this domain. The structure of the characterisation is usually
intended to reflect the point of view of significant experts or a realist
view of how things about a particular domain are in reality.
The aim of this workshop is to explore an epistemological stance in formal
ontology and knowledge representation and focus on the assessment of the
modelling provided by the ontology designer.


In particular, we are interested in fostering the discussion about two
intertwined research directions:

(1) EPISTEMOLOGY OF ONTOLOGY. We are interested in promoting discussions
about the epistemological foundations of formal ontologies and of knowledge
representation.
A number of timely important problems are related to this point, for
instance: the investigations of cognitively adequate ontological
representations, the investigations on the provenance of data, the problem
of the reliability of the source of information (both human and
artificial,   e.g. sensors),  the  problem of the epistemic reliability of
the classification provided by ontology users, the problem of finding
epistemically and cognitively well-founded rationales for the integration
of ontological representations with other representational approaches (e.g.
deep neural networks, vector space models etc.).

(2) ONTOLOGY OF EPISTEMOLOGY. We are interested in formal and ontological
approaches to the definitions of the concepts that are relevant to the
assessment of the perspective of the ontology designer. Problems related to
this direction include: ontology of general epistemological concepts (e.g.
  proof, argument, explanation, epistemic reliability, trust), ontology of
cognitive concepts (perception, reasoning, sensations), ontology of data
and measurements.


AUDIENCE: We aim to address to an interdisciplinary audience, by inviting
scholars in philosophy, computer science, logic, conceptual modelling,
knowledge representation, and cognitive science to contribute to the
discussion.


Topics of interest (include but are not restricted to)

Epistemological Foundation of Ontologies:

- Cognitive foundations of ontologies (e.g. connection with conceptual
spaces, diagrammatic representations, mental models, prototypes, image
schemas, scripts etc.).
- Empirical foundations of ontologies: ontologies driven from observations,
measurements, tests, and in general from data acquired using empirical
procedures.
- Representation of different perspectives on the same domain: contexts,
granularity, resolution, ontological levels.
- Quantitative approaches/analyses, probabilities, uncertainty, and
ontologies.
- Neural networks and ontological modelling.
- Integration of ontologies with different formats and levels of
representation (e.g. neural-symbolic integration).
- Inductive reasoning in ontologies.
- Ontological Extensions of Cognitive Architectures.

Ontological Foundation of Epistemology:

- Ontology of propositional attitudes (Knowledge, Belief, etc.).
- Ontology of cognitive theories (e.g. conceptual spaces, image schemas,
patterns, prototypes).
- Ontology of data, observations, and sensors (provenance, trust, quality,
reliability).
- Ontological approaches to sensor data analysis and data elaboration.
- Ontology of truth-makers.


Important Dates

- Submission deadline: June 25, 2018  (with possible extension to the 30th
of June)
- Notification: July 23, 2018
- Camera-ready: August 15, 2018
- September 17-18, 2018 - Workshop (the exact date will be communicated
later).



Accepted Submissions

We welcome two types of submissions:

- Regular articles (8-12 pages including the bibliography) for presenting
original unpublished work, neither submitted to, nor accepted for, any
other venue.
- Short articles (5 pages including the bibliography) for presenting brief
descriptions of ongoing research and projects, preliminary approaches, or
descriptions of related previously published research.


Submission Guidelines

Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format following IOS
Press formatting guidelines (downloadable here:
https://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/
).

Papers should be uploaded via Easy Chair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2018

(Select EPINON track)


Publication: Articles and abstracts will be published by CEUR workshop
proceedings.
(For the previous editions of the JOWO proceedings, see www.iaoa.org/jowo/)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Daniele Porello, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen,
Claudio Masolo, ISTC-CNR.
Simon Scheider, Utrecht University.


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Daniele Porello  http://www.danieleporello.net
Free University of Bolzano-Bozen,
Piazza Domenicani 3, 39100, Bolzano