Call for JOWO workshop proposals

Episode X: The Tukker Zomer of Ontology

• Workshop proposal submission deadline: 14 December 2024
• Workshop organizers notification: 08 January 2024
• JOWO 2024 (co-located with FOIS 2024): 15-19 July 2024
• JOWO series
• Contact: jowo2024@easychair.org

The chairs for JOWO 2024 invite proposals for workshops to be held on-site in conjunction with FOIS 2024 before or after the main conference which will take place July 15-19, 2023 in Enschede, Netherlands.

The mission of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) is to join forces of the diverse communities interested in building, reasoning with, and applying formalised ontologies in the wide spectrum of information sciences, artificial intelligence theory and applications, philosophy and cognitive science, and beyond.

Workshops accepted at JOWO 2024 have their scientific programs autonomously curated by the organizers of each workshop. The organizers are responsible for advertising the workshops, reviewing and evaluating submitted contributions, and selecting those that will be included in the program. Workshops should offer a platform for exchanging ideas on a broad array of subjects encompassing ontologies, formal ontology, knowledge management, and their applications across information science and other areas. Together, the workshops should cover a wide spectrum of topics in ontology research, spanning disciplines such as Cognitive Science, Knowledge Representation, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics. They are particularly well-suited for fostering interdisciplinary and innovative formats.

As in earlier years, all contributions to accepted workshops will be published open access in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, as part of the new IAOA series (http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html).

Researchers and practitioners interested in the theory, practice, development, and/or application of ontologies and related areas are invited to submit workshop proposals for review.

We encourage several forms and lengths of workshops (the list is non-exhaustive):

• Workshops that focus on an established research area, including continuations of workshops that were held in the past
• Workshops that focus on emerging topics and applications, or on open research questions and challenges
• Workshops that aim to create cross-disciplinary research fostering the exchange of ideas between groups otherwise mostly disconnected
• Workshops that promote hands-on activities related to ontologies and their applications

Submission instructions

Proposals for workshops should be no more than 2 pages in length, and must contain the following information:

• Title of the workshop
• Names of the workshop organizers
  • One organizer must be indicated as a primary contact person
  • For organizational purposes, there must be at least one organizer committed to be physically present during the event
• Brief description of experience in workshop organization
• Description of the workshop topic
• Brief description of the expected audience
  • Expected number of participants
  • Expected audience's background and interests
• The intended duration of the workshop (between half a day and a full day)
• Timeline for the workshop (submission dates, notification dates), taking into account the proposed “important dates” below

Workshop proposals must be sent to https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fois2024 by 14 December 2023.

Evaluation criteria

Submissions of workshop proposals will be evaluated by the workshop chairs using the following criteria:

• Scientific relevance and utility to attendees
• Quality of the proposal
• Likelihood of success of the workshop
• Overlap and complementarity with other workshops

Important dates

JOWO workshops should adhere to the proposed dates below. Significant deviations from these dates need to be discussed with the JOWO chairs.

• Workshop proposal submission deadline: 14 December 2023
• Workshop acceptance notification: 08 January 2024
• Workshop call for papers announcement and publicity: 31 January 2024
• Workshop paper submission deadline: 17 April 2024*
• Workshop author notification: 15 May 2024
• Camera-ready submission (post-conference proceedings): 30 July 2024 6 August 2024 (extended)
• Workshop days: between 15-19 July 2024 (co-located with FOIS 2024)**

* reference submission deadline; actual deadlines may differ between workshops

** the JOWO workshops will not be part of the FOIS virtual conference days.

JOWO CEUR Proceedings Camera-ready instructions

The instructions apply to submissions sent to all workshops. Authors must submit to Easychair a signed "Author Agreement to Publish a Contribution as Open-Access on CEUR-WS.org" (the signature must be handwritten with a pen on paper) and the camera-ready paper aligned with the CEUR template.

There are two variants of the author agreement. Download the most appropriate for your case. Notice the pdf file is pre-filled with JOWO 2024 information.

1. AUTHOR-AGREEMENT (NTP): Authors shall use this form if they included no copyrighted third-party material in their paper text (or accompanying sources, datasets), and no material in the paper was produced with the help of Generative Artificial Intelligence tools including tools based on large language models (LLM). This is the right variant in most cases.
2. AUTHOR-AGREEMENT (TP): Authors shall use this form if they did include copyrighted third-party material in their paper or accompanying material or if they used Generative Artificial Intelligence tools to produce material in the paper. In case of third-party material, they must then append a copy of the permission(s) by the third parties to use this material to the signed author agreement! In the case of material produced by Generative Artificial Intelligence tools, they must fill in and sign a declaration on which elements of the paper were produced by AI tools, see AI STATEMENT. This signed declaration must then be scanned and appended to the signed author agreement. Check ACADEMIC-ETHICS for our rules on including such material.

If we find misalignments, we will contact the authors for suitable corrections.

JOWO Chairs

• Claudenir M. Fonseca, University of Twente, The Netherlands
• Guendalina Righetti, University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy