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4th Workshop on Foundational Ontology

Proceedings

Proceedings are publicly available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2708/

Program

Date: September 15, 2020

The schedule is set to the Central European Summer Time (CEST).

Session 1

11:00 – 11:25
Causation: revisited
Riichiro Mizoguchi

11:25 – 11:50
On the Ontological Foundations of Cellular Development
Patryk Burek, Heinrich Herre, and Nico Scherf

11:50 – 12:15
What are we debating about when we debate about processes and events?
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Riccardo Baratella

12:15 – 12:40 
Critical Discussion of Zhou’s “What the progressive aspect tells us about processes”
Riccardo Baratella

12:40 – 13:00
Panel discussion

Session 2

15:00 – 15:25
Free Description Logic for Ontologists
Fabian Neuhaus, Oliver Kutz, and Guendalina Righetti

15:25 – 15:50 
Refining OntoClean. Identity Criteria and Grounding
Massimiliano Carrara and Ciro De Florio. 

15:50 – 16:15
Approaching Roles with Affordances
Adrien Barton, Fumiaki Toyoshima, and Jean-Francois Ethier

16:15 – 16:40
Functional Parthood: A Dispositional Perspective
Fumiaki Toyoshima, Adrien Barton, and Jean-François Ethier. 

16:40 – 17:00. Panel discussion

Call for papers

The 4th Workshop on Foundational Ontology (FOUST IV) is organised as part of the Joint Ontology Workshops and hosted by the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge.

Foundational ontologies are attempts to systematise those categories of thought or reality which are common to all or almost all subject-matters. Commonly considered examples of such categories include ‘object’, ‘quality’, ‘function’, ‘role’, ‘process’, ‘event’, ‘time’, and ‘place’. Amongst existing foundational ontologies, there is both a substantial measure of agreement and some dramatic disagreements. There is currently no uniform consensus concerning how a foundational ontology should be organised, how far its ‘reach’ should be (e.g., is the distinction between physical and non-physical entities sufficiently fundamental to be included here?), and even what role it should play in relation to more specialised domain ontologies. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present work on specific foundational ontologies as well as foundational ontologies in general and their relations to each other and to the wider ontological enterprise.

Workshop topics

  • Changes to existing foundational ontologies / extension by new modules
  • Any specific category or topic usually covered by foundational ontology (e.g., functions, roles, time, mereology)
  • Theoretical results about specific foundational ontologies (e.g., consistency proof of significant parts of an existing foundational ontology)
  • Comparison and alignments of foundational ontologies
  • Relationship between foundational ontologies and domain ontologies
  • Applications of foundational ontologies in AI, Semantic Web, Linguistics, etc.

Submissions

We encourage different types of contribution:

  • Full research paper: Submitted papers must not exceed 14 pages (excluding the bibliography) and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words.
  • Short paper: Submitted papers must not exceed 6 pages (excluding the bibliography) and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words.

EDIT: In the first version of this CFP, the page limit for full research papers was 10 pages.

Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format following IOS Press formatting guidelines, which can be found at http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/

The Easychair submission page can be found at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2020 (select the track “4th Workshop on Foundational Ontology”)

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

Important dates

  • Paper Submission: July 27 August 3, 2020
  • Notification: August 25 August 30 September 2, 2020
  • Camera ready: September 1 September 10, 2020
  • Workshop: September, 15

Workshop policy

No traveling or physical participation is required, no registration fee. The workshop is going to happen virtually.

Contact

E-mail:  foustworkshop@gmail.com

Organization

Workshop chairs

  • Tiago Prince Sales – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • Daniele Porello – Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy

Program committee

  • Adrien Barton – Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, CNRS, France
  • Antony Galton – University of Exeter, UK
  • Barry Smith – University of Buffalo, USA
  • C. Maria Keet – University of Cape Town, South Africa
  • Emilio Sanfilippo – Le Studium, Institute for Advanced Studies, France
  • Fabian Neuhaus – University of Magdeburg, Germany
  • Frank Loebe – University of Leipzig, Germany
  • Giancarlo Guizzardi – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • João Paulo Almeida – Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
  • Laure Vieu – Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, CNRS, France
  • Mattia Fumagalli – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • Michael Grüninger – University of Toronto, Canada
  • Nicola Guarino – Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy
  • Oliver Kutz – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • Pierre Grenon – University College London, UK
  • Riichiro Mizoguchi – Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
  • Roberta Ferrario – Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy
  • Stefano Borgo – Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy

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