[CfP] FOUST VIII @ JOWO 2024, July 15-19, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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FOUST VIII

8th Edition of the Foundational Ontology Workshop

part of the 10th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2024), held at the 14th
International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS),

July 15-19, 2024

University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

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

Contact: foustworkshop@gmail.com


Submission deadline: April 17, 2024

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About the workshop:


Foundational Ontologies are attempts to systematise very high-level
categories of thought or reality. In practical terms, they aim to
understand and formalise the meaning of very general terms, such as object,
event, property, time, quality, relation, and process. Once formalised,
these terms provide the top-level categories that are in principle common
to many (if not all) domains of application. Consequently, Foundational
Ontologies are widely acknowledged as crucial tools for tackling system and
software interoperability issues. Despite this recognition, there is less
consensus on the specific entities a foundational ontology should cover,
its organisational structure, its scope, and even its role in relation to
more specialised domain ontologies. This lack of consensus often reflects
deep-rooted debates stemming from different philosophical perspectives on
reality, mind, and language.


Traditionally FOUST concentrates on a series of topics in foundational
ontology. This encompasses discussing philosophical foundations, presenting
new research on specific foundational ontologies, discussing existing
foundational ontologies, comparing them, and examining their relevance to
the broader ontological enterprise. In some editions, FOUST adds a special
topic to attract attention to some research questions. Along with this
tradition, this year's focus revolves around the role of constructional
approaches in applied ontology.


The concept of constructional ontology, introduced by Kit Fine in his
influential paper “The Study of Ontology” (1991), involves assuming a set
of ontological givens or basic elements and a set of constructors that can
be iteratively applied to generate new elements in the ontology. This idea
is related to the iterative conception of sets (Gödel 1964, Boolos 1971), a
powerful paradigm in the philosophy of mathematics designed to prevent
paradoxes (e.g. the “Russell set”).

Besides the usual topics, this edition of FOUST aims to explore how similar
ideas can be implemented in applied ontology. What does it mean to have a
constructional ontology, in practice? Are there recurring patterns that can
be considered as ontological givens? Do reusable patterns of constructions
exist? What are the conceivable means of construction, and, crucially, what
are the practical advantages of adopting such an approach in applied
ontology?

In fostering and starting a discussion of these themes, FOUST VIII welcomes
presentations of ongoing research and perspectives that encourage
interdisciplinary dialogue among the diverse sub-fields of applied
ontology. Papers centered around the traditional workshop topics are also
highly encouraged.

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

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   Constructional approaches in applied ontology.
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   Methodological aspects in applied ontology.
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   Changes to existing foundational ontologies/extensions by new modules.
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   Novel research on any specific category or topic that is usually covered
   by foundational ontology:
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      functions,
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      roles,
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      time,
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      mereology,
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      ontological dependence,
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      constitution,
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      properties and intensional entities,
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      collectives and social entities.
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   Theoretical results about specific foundational ontologies (e.g.,
   consistency proofs, modularizations)
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   Application results of foundational ontologies in AI, the Semantic Web,
   Linguistics, and more.
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   Conceptual and formal comparisons and alignments of foundational
   ontologies.
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   Relationship and alignment of foundational ontologies and domain
   ontologies.
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   Philosophical foundations for applied ontology.


Important Dates:

Submission deadline: April 17, 2024

Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2024
Camera-ready deadline: June 30, 2024

Workshop dates: 15-19, 2024


Submissions:

We welcome three types of submissions.

Abstract for presentation only: 2-3 pages

(not included as a paper in the proceedings);

Short papers: 5-9 pages;

Full research papers: max. 10-14 pages.


Submissions must be sent via Easychair as a single PDF file and should be
formatted in CEUR 1-column format.

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Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2024. (Please
select the track  JOWO Workshop - FOUST VIII)


Organisation:

Greta Adamo, BC3 – Basque Centre for Climate Change

Guendalina Righetti, University of Oslo


Steering committee:

Stefano Borgo – Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy

Oliver Kutz – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Frank Loebe – University of Leipzig, Germany

Fabian Neuhaus – Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany