CfP -- CAOS 2019: Cognition And OntologieS IV

1st CFP — CAOS 2019: Cognition And OntologieS IV

4th International Workshop on Cognition and Ontologies
Medical University of Graz, September 23-25, 2019
Part of The Joint Ontology Workshops JOWO 2019

Workshop Webpage: https://caos.inf.unibz.it/
JOWO 2019 Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2019/


The purpose of the workshop is to bridge the gap between the cognitive
sciences and research on ontologies and, thus, to create a venue for
researchers interested in interdisciplinary aspects of knowledge
representation.
More specifically CAOS addresses the difficult question of how key
cognitive phenomena and concepts (and the involved terminology) can be
found across language, psychology and reasoning and how this can be
formally and ontologically understood, analyzed and represented.
We welcome submissions on topics related to the ontology of hypothesized
building blocks of cognition (such as image schemas, affordances, and
related notions) and of cognitive capacities (such as concept invention,
language acquisition), as well as system-demonstrations modelling these
capacities in application settings.
We also welcome submissions addressing the cognitive and epistemological
adequacy of ontological modelling.

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):

Modelling cognitive phenomena:

- Language acquisition
- Formalisation / modelling of language
- Embodied cognition
- Concept invention
- AI for language understanding
- Image schemas / affordances for AI
- Knowledge acquisition in AI and Robotics
- Natural language applications / system-demonstrations


Epistemological and cognitive foundation of ontologies:

- Cognitive foundations of ontologies and ontologies of cognitive theories
(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.


Important Dates

- Submission deadline: May 31, 2019
- Notification:  June 31, 2019
- Camera-ready: July 15, 2019
- September  September 23-25, 2019 - 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 (6 pages including the bibliography) for presenting brief
descriptions of ongoing research and projects, preliminary approaches,
position papers, 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=jowo2019

(Select “Cognition and Ontologies” 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:

Maria M. Hedblom, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.
Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.
Claudio Masolo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy
Danielle Porello, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy
Guendalina Righetti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy