Related Events
FOIS 2016 will include, in addition to the main conference and workshops:
Early Carreer Symposium
Application deadline: February 26th, 2016.
Scope
This event is designed to provide an opportunity for graduate students to present their work at one of the leading conferences in formal ontology and to get first-hand feedback and mentorship from senior researchers in their field. It will also allow participants to network with other early career scientists in the broad field of ontology. Topics of interest include all topics relevant to the interdisciplinary field of ontology as outlined in the topics of interest for FOIS 2016.
Format
The ECS will be held as a poster session within the main FOIS conference. The poster session will be opened by a lightning talks session, during which each participant has the opportunity to advertise his/her work in a 3 minutes speech to the general audience of the FOIS conference. Each participant will be assigned a senior researcher as a mentor, who will provide substantial feedback to his/her work. Moreover, a PhD Lounge will allow early career scientists to meet and discuss their work with each other.
Application Instructions
The ECS is open to students at the Masters and Doctoral Level who have not defended their thesis before the ECS Submission deadline.
Candidates can apply by submitting a description of their research project (see the template at http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/fois16-ecs/ECS_submission_template.zip) and a current CV by February 26th, 2016. Submissions will be reviewed by selected members of the FOIS Program Committee. Submission should be made via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2016 (select the track 'Early Career Symposium').
Accepted submissions will be published in a FOIS DBLP indexed proceedings (CEUR, ISSN 1613-0073) together with papers from the FOIS Demo Track and the FOIS Ontology Competition.
All participants must register for the main conference. Applicants can apply for the scholarships made available by the IAOA.
Contact
For all queries about the Early Career Symposium, please contact the organizers at ecsfois16@gmail.com.
Important Dates
ECS Submission deadline : February 26th, 2016
ECS Notification of acceptance : April 15th, 2016
Early Career Symposium : July 8th, 2016
ECS Organizers
Adrien Barton (University de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada)
Stefano Borgo (LOA, Italy)
Jean-Remi Bourguet (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil)
Formal Ontology Competition
Ontologies Submission Deadline: Mar 15, 2016.
Definition and Scope
The FOIS 2016 Ontology Competition is intended to recognize high-quality ontologies and to encourage the spread of best practices in the ontology community.
The topic of the 2016 Ontology Competition is "Representing Change in Ontologies".
Applied ontologies often need to represent information about changing situations: e.g., cells are parts of different body parts during different stages of the development of an animal, objects gain new parts and capabilities while they are processed in a factory, associations gain and loose members and the members change their social roles and relationships. Representing change often requires difficult design decisions; in particular if the ontology is written in a language like OWL, which only supports unary and binary predicates.
Each submission should consist of
- an ontology (or a collection of ontologies)
- a short paper (max. 5 pages) containing
There are no restrictions on the subject matter of the ontology. The ontology may be but does not need to be connected to FOIS research papers.
Evaluation
The ontologies are evaluated based on the following criteria:
Important Dates
Ontologies Submission Deadline: Mar 15, 2016
Notification: Apr 11, 2016
Presentation at FOIS 2016: Jul 06 – 09, 2016
Submission Guidelines
Ontologies and the related paper should be submitted simultaneously. Authors are strongly encouraged to upload their ontology to some publicly accessible repository (e.g., Bioportal or Ontohub).
The paper is supposed to be at most 5 pages long. This page limit includes all parts of the paper: title, abstract, body and bibliography. It must be formatted according to the instructions on the format of research submissions.
All papers should be submitted non-anonymously and be prepared in PDF format in accordance with the IOS formatting guidelines found at http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/.
Accepted submissions will be published in a FOIS DBLP indexed proceedings (CEUR, ISSN 1613-0073) together with papers from the FOIS Demo Track and the FOIS Early Career Symposium (ECS).
Submission should be made via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2016 (select the track 'Ontology Competition').
Ontology Competition Chair:
Fabian Neuhaus (University of Magdeburg, Germany)
Demonstration Track
Demonstration Paper deadline: Mar 15, 2016.
Definition and Scope
The FOIS 2016 Demo session is designed to provide an exciting and highly interactive way to demonstrate ontology research. It complements the overall program of the FOIS conference and is an excellent forum to advertise the applicability of results and software, as well as to receive feedback from the international ontology research community.
Demonstration Papers should be related to the topics of interest of the main conference track. The scope for demos includes software for the ontology lifecycle as well as ontology-based software, for example:
- computational environments and prototypes for ontological engineering,
- practical ontology projects,
- advances in applying ontologies and lessons learned, and
- late-breaking results of innovative uses of ontology-based and/or ontology engineering techniques.
Papers in the demonstrations track should make clear what will be demonstrated and in particular point out what makes the demonstration a novel showcase. Submissions should further specify:
- What is the research background and application context of the demonstration?
- What exactly will be demonstrated? What exactly will a visitor of the demonstration learn?
- For whom is it most interesting/useful? (E.g., for ontology researchers, for ontology developers, ontology practitioners, and/or for graduate or undergraduate students?)
- What are the key technologies used and what are the technical challenges addressed?
- How does the demonstrated system, application or infrastructure relate to pre-existing work and why is it a novel showcase in ontology research?
Important Dates
Demo Paper Submission Deadline: Mar 15, 2016
Notification: Apr 11, 2016
Submission Guidelines
Demonstration papers must be at most 5 pages long. This page limit includes all parts of the paper: title, abstract, body and bibliography. Proposals should clearly describe what will be demonstrated and how the contribution will be illustrated interactively. Authors are encouraged to include a URL that shows a preliminary version of the demo (e.g., screenshots, or even an interactive program). However, that is not a requirement and it shall not affect the decision on the paper's acceptance.
All papers should be submitted non-anonymously and be prepared in PDF format in accordance with the IOS formatting guidelines found at http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/.
Accepted submissions will be published in a FOIS DBLP indexed proceedings (CEUR, ISSN 1613-0073) together with papers from the FOIS Ontology Competition Papers and the FOIS Early Career Symposium (ECS) submissions.
Submission should be made via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2016 (select the track 'Demonstration Papers).
Demo Chair:
Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany)