13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023) - Online
Short Title: FOIS 2023

Date: 18-Sep-2023 - 20-Sep-2023
Location: Online, Canada
Contact: Selja Seppälä
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://fois2023.griis.ca/online-conference/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

===== Call for Participation to online FOIS 2023 conference, showcases and demos =====

Program: https://fois2023.griis.ca/online-conference/

Registration: https://event.fourwaves.com/fr/fois2023/inscription
(free registration for students)

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13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023), September 18-20, 2023 (Online)

Definition and scope
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The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. FOIS 2023 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies. FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, as well as the Semantic Web.

FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: http://iaoa.org/), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology.

Program
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Monday September, 18th
EDT (UTC -4) CEST (UTC +2)
08:15-08:30 14:15-14:30 FOIS online Welcome Zoom
08:30-10:30 14:30-16:30 Session 1: Foundational concepts (Chair: Laure Vieu) Zoom
10:30-11:00 16:30-17:00 Coffee break gather.town
11:00-12:00 17:00-18:00 Ontology showcases and demos gather.town

Tuesday September, 19th
08:30-09:00 14:30-15:00 Invited talks special session (TBC) Zoom
09:00-10:30 15:00-16:30 Session 2: Methodological issues (TBA) Zoom
10:30-11:00 16:30-17:00 Coffee break gather.town
11:00-12:00 17:00-18:00 ESAO panel Zoom

Wednesday September, 20th
09:00-10:30 15:00-16:30 Session 3: Domain ontologies (TBA) Zoom
10:30-11:00 16:30-17:00 Coffee break gather.town
11:00-12:00 17:00-18:00 IAOA General Assembly Zoom
12:00-12:15 18:00-18:15 Closing Zoom

Details: https://fois2023.griis.ca/onlinesession/

Registration fees
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Online presenter: 500 CAN / 340 EUR
Listener - regular fee (academia or industry): 100 CAN / 70 EUR
Listener - reduced fee (student or participant from less developed contry): free

More information: https://fois2023.griis.ca/registration/

Conference Organization
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General Chair: Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK
PC Chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France
Torsten Hahmann, University of Maine, USA
Local Organization Chair: Jean-François Ethier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Online Chair: Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France
Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada
Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy
Early Career Chairs: Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE), France
Guendalina Righetti, Free University Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
Demo & Showcase Chairs: Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK
Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, Netherlands
Publicity Chairs: Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany
Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland
Proceedings Chair: Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden
Program committee: https://fois2023.griis.ca/conference-organization/