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Revision as of 13:06, 9 April 2014
Workshop organized as part of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems FOIS 2014
Workshop Date: September 22, 2014
Conference Dates: September 22-25, 2014
Summary
This workshop, held in conjunction with the FOIS 2014 conference, is designed to provide a forum for discussion of both foundational and practical issues relating to the ontological representation of information artifacts. We welcome three types of submissions: tutorial proposals (1-page), longer papers (up to 6 pages), and short progress reports (1-page).
Background
Information artifacts such as photographs, newspaper articles, books, entries in databases, computer programs, emails, video clips are entities which can be used in a variety of ways that depend on their being about something (having a topic or content or subject-matter). Information artifacts also have a variety of further attributes, including format, purpose, evidence, provenance, operational relevance, security markings. Data concerning such attributes (often called ‘metadata’) are vital to the effective exploitation of the reports, images, or signals documents for purposes of discovery and analysis.
Various attempts have been made to create controlled vocabularies for the consistent formulation of such metadata in order to enhance the degree to which the content formulated with their aid will be available to computational reasoning. These include:
Definition and Scope
The goal of this workshop is to advance work on information artifact ontologies along the following axes:
- 1. introductory tutorials providing training in the development and use of specific ontologies
- 2. discussion of foundational issues concerning the ontological treatment of information artifacts and information entities and also concerning issues of dissemination (how can we advance the degree to which different communities use common, useful and usable ontologies)
- 3. advancing convergence among resources developed to represent information artifacts in various domains
- 4. sharing of information on existing initiatives and on plans for further development.
The workshop will accordingly consist of a mixture of tutorials, longer papers under headings 2. and 3., and short progress reports under heading 4. All tutorial proposals and papers will be refereed.
Workshop Schedule
- 9.30-11am Tutorial sessions parallel (including at least one tutorial on IAO)
- 11.30-1pm Long paper presentations I
- 2-3.30pm Long paper presentations II
- 4-5pm Short paper presentations
Rules for submissions
A limited number of 1.5 hour tutorial sessions will be offered in parallel at the beginning of the workshop. Tutorial proposals should be 1-page in length and must include a title, abstract, motivation as well as description of the content, aims, presentation style, and tutorial format. We expect the tutorials to have practical examples and exercises for participants.
Short papers should be 1 page in length and should provide an overview of on-going work on some specific information artifact ontology initiative. Long papers should be between 5 and 6 pages.
All submissions will be refereed prior to publication. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR workshop proceedings.
Submissions may not have been published previously, nor be under review elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the Easychair submission page here. They should be prepared in accordance with the LNCS formatting guidelines. The workshop proceedings will be published in the CEUR-WS workshop series.
Organizing Committee
Mauricio B. Almeida (Minas Gerais)
Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas)
Laura Slaughter (Oslo)
Barry Smith (Chair, Buffalo)
Scientific Committee
Renata Maria Abrantes Baracho (Minas Gerais)
Marcello Peixoto Bax (Minas Gerais)
Werner Ceusters (Buffalo)
Janna Hastings (EBI)
Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY)
Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC, Buffalo)
Renato Rocha Souza (Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio)
Frederico Fonseca (Penn State University)
Timeline
Deadline for submissions: May 22, 2014 11:59 p.m. GMT
The link to submissions in EasyChair for the IAO workshop is at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iaow2014. Submission opens April 14, 2014 and closes on May 22, 2014.
Deadline for notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014
Deadline for camera-ready copy August 15, 2014
Sponsors
Graduate Program in Information Science of the Federal University of Minas Gerais
