1st CfP - CognitionAndOntologies@FOIS2023, July 17-20, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

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CAOS 2023 - Call for Papers


The seventh edition of Cognition And OntologieS

part of the 9th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2022), held at the 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS), July 17-20 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada


Submission deadline: April 17

Website: https://caos.inf.unibz.it/


The purpose of the workshop is to bridge the gap between the cognitive sciences and research on formal ontologies and, thus, to create a venue for researchers interested in interdisciplinary aspects of knowledge representation.


More specifically, CAOS investigates key cognitive phenomena and concepts (and the involved terminology) that can be found across language, psychology, and reasoning, and how they can be formally and ontologically understood and analysed. By exploring the connection between cognitive sciences/experimental psychology and ontologies (as well as, more generally, logic and symbolic AI), the aim is to provide formal modelling and analysis for capturing such connections.

CAOS, thus, seeks answers to ways such formalisations and ontological analysis can be exploited in Artificial Intelligence and information systems, including in practical application.


We welcome submissions on topics related to the ontology of hypothesised building blocks of cognition (such as image schemas, affordances, categories, concepts and related notions) and of cognitive capacities (such as concept invention and combination, language acquisition and categorisation), as well as system-demonstrations modelling these capacities in application settings. We also welcome submissions addressing the cognitive and epistemological adequacy of ontological modelling.


Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):


  *   Ontologies of cognitive phenomena and cognitive theories (e.g. connection with conceptual spaces, diagrammatic representations, mental models, prototypes, image schemas, scripts)

  *   Cognitive foundations of ontologies

  *   Empirical foundations of ontologies (ontologies driven from observations, measurements, tests, and based on data acquired from empirical procedures)

  *   Logic and cognition (challenges, possible solutions and validation scenarios)

  *   Formal representation of cognitive structures / functions / processes

  *   Knowledge representation and common-sense

  *   Formalisation/modelling of language, image schemas and/or affordance

  *   Cognitive models of concepts and categorisation in formal settings

  *   Concept invention and concept combination in formal settings

  *   Cognitive and language development from an ontological perspective

  *   Metaphors and analogies (formal representation, ontological analysis)

  *   AI for language understanding

  *   Knowledge acquisition and categorisation in AI and Robotics

  *   Concept-based computational creativity

  *   Embodied cognition, image schemas, affordances

  *   Neural networks and ontological modelling.


We welcome researchers from all career stages to participate. Besides full research papers, work in progress (short papers) and extended abstracts (presentation only) are also welcome since a central goal of the workshop is the discussion of ongoing interdisciplinary work.


All research papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other workshop, conference or journal. Note that, for inclusion in the JOWO proceedings, short papers are required to be at least 5 pages long.


All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and the review process will be managed in a collaborative and transparent manner using the EasyChair System as part of the JOWO conference. The workshop is organised as an onsite event..


Submissions


Submission deadline: April 17, 2023

Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fois2023

(select the track for “CAOS VII: Cognition And OntologieS”)


Paper formats:


We encourage three types of contributions:


 • Full research paper: submitted papers must have between 10 - 14 pages including references.

 • Short paper: submitted papers must have between 5 and 9 pages.

 • Abstract for presentation: 1-2 page abstracts for presentation.

(Note that abstracts will not be included in the proceedings)


Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format in compliance with the new 1-column CEUR-ART Style. See:

- https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.overleaf.com%2Fread%2Fgwhxnqcghhdt&data=05%7C01%7Cguendalina.righetti%40stud-inf.unibz.it%7C7ff3d4a156ab4e22acd008db057de399%7C9251326703e3401a80d4c58ed6674e3b%7C0%7C0%7C638109813299926781%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=fzy1Gh9W9ciB4W4rPwkr4gMCRqXDlH4jBERy8vnWvHI%3D&reserved=0>

- http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip<https://eur03.safelinks.protection..outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fceur-ws.org%2FVol-XXX%2FCEURART.zip&data=05%7C01%7Cguendalina.righetti%40stud-inf.unibz.it%7C7ff3d4a156ab4e22acd008db057de399%7C9251326703e3401a80d4c58ed6674e3b%7C0%7C0%7C638109813299926781%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=eQHqba%2BodFoGozHQiYKdYcNRL%2Fcfj4RLLA6w5jD5ixs%3D&reserved=0>


All contributions to JOWO workshops will be published in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, compare:


JOWO 2022: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3249/

JOWO 2021: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2969/

JOWO 2020: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2708/

JOWO 2019: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2518/

JOWO 2018: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2205/


Organisation


Guendalina Righetti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University

Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Stefano De Giorgis, University of Bologna