5th Workshop on Foundational Ontology

Participation Instructions

If you are attending the workshop on-site, come to:

Hotel Kolping Bolzano
Largo Adolph Kolping 3
I-39100 Bolzano
South Tyrol, Italy

If you are participating online, use the link below to join the Zoom call:

https://scientificnet.zoom.us/j/91085465935?pwd=MHhMdlc3d1FORFNGeVdiZVVYVXgydz09

Meeting ID: 910 8546 5935
Passcode: 752065

Registration

You can register for FOUST V at the registration page of the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge 2021

Online participation is free of charge!

Program

Date: Monday, September 13, 2021

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

Session 1

Chairs: Markus Stumptner and Daniele Porello

09:45 – 10:05
Tense Logic and Ontology of Time
Avril Styrman

10:05 – 10:25
Expressions, Utterances and Directive Slots
Adrien Barton, Laure Vieu and Jean-Francois Ethier

10:25 – 10:45
On the Role of Automated Proof-Assistants in the Formalization of Upper Ontologies
João Rafael Nicola and Giancarlo Guizzardi

10:45 – 11:05
Mereosemiotics: Parts and signs
Martin Thomas Horsch

Session 2

Chairs: Claudio Masolo and Pierre Grenon

12:00 – 12:20
The Role of the Systemic View in Foundational Ontologies
Riichiro Mizoguchi and Stefano Borgo

12:20 – 12:40
Towards a Structural Characterization of Identity, Individuality and Sortality
João Rafael Nicola and Giancarlo Guizzardi

12:40 – 13:00
Developing GFO 2.0 Further – Initiating the Modules of Space and Material Objects
Frank Loebe, Patryk Burek and Heinrich Herre

13:00 – 13:20
The Counting Problem of Slot Mereology
Cédric Tarbouriech, Adrien Barton, Jean-François Éthier and Laure Vieu

Session 3

Chairs: Giancarlo Guizzardi and Ludger Jansen

15:00 – 15:20
Texts, Compositions, and Works: A socio-cultural perspective on information entities
Claudio Masolo, Emilio M. Sanfilippo, Roberta Ferrario and Elena Pierazzo

15:20 – 15:40
Copies and dependence
Massimiliano Carrara and Vittorio Morato

15:40 – 16:00
Semantics Matters: A New Light on Ontological Commitments of Logics
Fumiaki Toyoshima and Satoru Niki

16:00 – 16:20
GenderedOntoComedy: Toward a Gendered Representation of Female Characters in the Dante’s Commedia.
Selenia Anastasi, Andrea De Domenico and Marianna Nicolosi-Asmundo

Call for papers

Important dates

Submission deadline: ~~July 3, 2021~~ July 9, 2021 (strict!)
Review notification: August 9, 2021
Camera ready: August 23, 2021
Workshop: September 13, 2021

About

The 5th Workshop on Foundational Ontology (FOUST V) is co-located with the 12th International Conference on Formal Ontologies in Information Systems (FOIS 2021), to take place in 13 September 2021 and hosted by the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge 2021.

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 and stakeholders to present work on specific foundational ontologies as well as their relations to each other and to the wider ontological enterprise, but also topics related to foundational questions in ontology engineering

Workshop topics (among others)

Changes to existing foundational ontologies / extension by new modules
Novel research on any specific category or topic usually covered by foundational ontology (e.g., functions, roles, time, mereology, ontological dependence, constitution)
Theoretical results about specific foundational ontologies (e.g., consistency proofs, modularizations, etc. )
Application results of foundational ontologies in AI, the Semantic Web, Linguistics, etc.
Comparison and alignments of foundational ontologies
Relationship between foundational ontologies and domain ontologies

Submissions

We encourage two types of contributions:

Full research paper: Submitted papers must not exceed 14 pages (excluding the bibliography) and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Please note that the minimum length is 10 pages.
Short paper: Submitted papers must not exceed 6 pages (excluding the bibliography) and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Please note that the minimum length is 5 pages.

Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format in compliance with the new 1-column CEUR-ART Style, which can be found at https://ceurws.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/ceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-style/

The Easychair submission page can be found at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2021 (select the track “5th Workshop on Foundational Ontology”)

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

Workshop policy

FOUST 2021 is planned as a hybrid event. Hence, there will be a physical meeting in Bolzano which hopefully most will be able to join. However, given the uncertainty about travel in September we will make arrangements for remote participation. If the physical meeting cannot be held due to social restrictions, the workshop will go fully virtual.

Contact

E-mail: foustworkshop@gmail.com

Organization

Workshop chairs

Tiago Prince Sales – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Emilio M. Sanfilippo – Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy

Program committee

Adrien Barton – Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, CNRS, France
Andrew Spear – Grand Valley State University, USA
Antony Galton – University of Exeter, UK
Bahar Aameri – University of Toronto, Canada
Barry Smith – University of Buffalo, USA
Boyan Brodaric – Geological Survey of Canada, Canada
Claudenir M. Fonseca – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Claudio Masolo – Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Daniele Porello – University of Genova, Italy
Frank Loebe – University of Leipzig, Germany
Fumiaki Toyoshima – Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Giancarlo Guizzardi – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy / University of Twente, The Netherlands
Gilles Kassel – University of Picardy Jules Verne, France
Janna Hastings – University College London, UK
Jim Logan – No Magic, Inc – USA
João Paulo A. Almeida – Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
John Bateman – University of Bremen, Germany
Laure Vieu – Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, CNRS, France
Ludger Jansen – Universität Rostock, Germany
Markus Stumptner – University of South Australia, Australia
Massimiliano Carrara – University of Padova, Italy
Mattia Fumagalli – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Michael Grüninger – University of Toronto, Canada
Nicola Guarino – Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Nicolas Troquard – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Pawel Garbacz – John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Pierre Grenon – National Center for Ontological Research, Buffalo, USA
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