FOIS 2010

FOIS 2010
6th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
Event in series	FOIS
Dates	2010/05/11 (iCal) - 2010/05/14
Homepage:	fois2010.mie.utoronto.ca/
Location
Location:	Toronto, Canada
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Important dates
Submissions:	2010/10/31
Table of Contents

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Topics Covered

We seek high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. While authors may focus on fairly narrow and specific issues, all papers should emphasize the relevance of the work described to formal ontology and to information systems. Papers that completely ignore one or the other of these aspects will be considered as lying outside the scope of the meeting. Topic areas of particular interest to the conference are:

Foundational Issues

       * Kinds of entity: particulars vs universals, continuants vs occurrents, abstracta vs concreta, dependent vs independent, natural vs artificial
       * Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, subsumption, instantiation
       * Vagueness and granularity
       * Identity and change
       * Formal comparison among ontologies
       * Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, ...)
       * Ontology of biological reality (genes, proteins, cells, organisms, ...)
       * Ontology of artefacts, functions and roles
       * Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions and other mental attitudes; emotions, ...)
       * Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms,social relationships, artistic expressions, ...)
       * Ontology of the information society (information, communication, meaning negotiation, ...)
       * Ontology and Natural Language Semantics, Ontology and Cognition

Methodologies and Applications

       * Top-level vs application ontologies
       * Ontology integration and alignment; role of reference ontologies
       * Ontology-driven information systems design
       * Ontology-based application systems
       * Requirements engineering
       * Knowledge engineering
       * Knowledge management and organization
       * Knowledge representation; Qualitative modeling
       * Computational lexicons; Terminology
       * Information retrieval; Question-answering
       * Semantic web; Web services; Grid computing
       * Domain-specific ontologies, especially for: Linguistics, Geography, Law, Library science, Biomedical science, E-business, Enterprise integration, ...

Deadlines and Further Information

   Submissions: 31 October 2009
   Notification of acceptance: 18 December 2009
   Final camera-ready submission: 14 February 2010
   Conference: 11-14 May 2010

Submitted papers should not exceed 14 pages (including bibliography). Details of the submission process, and formatting guidelines, will be provided on the conference web page (http://fois2010.mie.utoronto.ca/). Proceedings will be published by IOS Press and available at the conference.