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Formal Ontology in Information Systems Conference 2024
Formal Ontology in Information Systems Conference 2024
FOIS 2024CallsJOWO workshops

Call for JOWO workshop proposals

Episode X: The Tukker Zomer of Ontology

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):

Submission instructions

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

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:

Important dates

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

* 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.

FAQ

  • Where should I submit the author agreement?

    The camera-ready submission and author agreement submission must ONLY be done via EasyChair. You will notice this option on the camera-ready submission webpage on EasyChair (on the proceedings author role on EasyChair, not on the initial author role). Therefore, do NOT send the author agreement to us via e-mail.

  • Must all authors sign the author agreement?

    It is enough that one of the authors sign the author agreement. However, digital signatures are not accepted by CEUR.

  • What are the instructions for the camera-ready submission?

    Submissions must adhere to the one-column CEUR template. General information on CEUR proceedings can be found at: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html.

    The only addition you need to do, besides the content of your paper, is to change the name of the event in the first-page footnote. It must be exactly what is written in the author agreement in the "Name and year of the event:", that is:

    • Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) - Episode X: The Tukker Zomer of Ontology, and satellite events co-located with the 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024), July 15-19, 2024, Enschede, The Netherlands.
  • What if nobody has presented my work at JOWO?

    The publication in the JOWO proceedings depends on the presentation at JOWO. If no one has presented the work, it cannot be included in the proceedings.

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