Satellite Activities
FOIS 2016 will include, in addition to the main conference and workshops:
Here you may find the Detailed Final Program of all Satellite Activities
Early Career Symposium
Important Dates
| ECS Submission Deadline: | Apr 25, 2016 |
| ECS Notification: | May 12, 2016 |
| Accepted Submission Deadline: | May 31, 2016 |
| Early Career Symposium: | July 8, 2016 |
Scope
This event is designed to provide an opportunity for graduate and PhD students as well as Postdocs to present their work at one of the leading conferences in formal ontology, and to obtain first-hand feedback and mentorship from senior researchers in the field. It will also allow participants to network with other early career scientists in the broad field of ontology. Topics of interest include all subject matter relevant to the interdisciplinary field of ontology, as outlined in the Call for Papers.
Format
The ECS will be held as a poster session during the main FOIS conference. The poster session will be opened by a lightning talks session, during which each participant will have 3 minutes to advertise their work to the general audience of the conference. Each participant will be assigned a senior researcher as a mentor, who will provide substantial feedback to their work. Moreover, a PhD Lounge will allow early career scientists to meet and discuss their work.
Submission Instructions
The ECS is open to students at the Masters and Doctoral levels as well as to Postdocs. Candidates can apply by submitting the following by the submission deadline: a two-page paper describing their research project (see the template here) and a current CV. Submissions will be reviewed by selected members of the FOIS Program Committee. Submission should be made via EasyChair (select the 'Early Career Symposium' track).
Accepted submissions will be published in a CEUR proceedings volume (ISSN 1613-0073, DBLP-indexed) together with papers from the FOIS Demo Track and the FOIS Ontology Competition. All participants must register for the main conference. Candidates can apply for scholarships made available by the IAOA.
Contact
For all queries about the Early Career Symposium, please contact the organizers at ecsfois16@gmail.com.
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
Important Dates
| Ontology Competition Deadline: | Apr 25, 2016 |
| Notification: | May 12, 2016 |
| Accepted Submission Deadline: | May 31, 2016 |
| Presentation at FOIS 2016: | July 6–9, 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 will evaluated using the following criteria:
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 should be at most 5 pages long. This page limit includes all parts of the paper: title, abstract, body and bibliography. It must follow the same formatting instructions as research submissions. All papers should be submitted non-anonymously and be prepared in PDF format in accordance with the IOS Press formatting guidelines found here. Submission should be made via EasyChair (select the 'Ontology Competition' track).
Accepted submissions will be published in a CEUR proceedings volume (ISSN 1613-0073, DBLP-indexed) together with papers from the FOIS Demo Track and the FOIS Early Career Symposium (ECS).
Ontology Competition Chair
Fabian Neuhaus (University of Magdeburg, Germany)
Demonstrations
Important Dates
| Demo Paper Submission Deadline: | Apr 25, 2016 |
| Notification: | May 12, 2016 |
| Accepted Submission Deadline: | May 31, 2016 |
| Demo at FOIS 2016: | July 6–9, 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 demonstration 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, 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?
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. Papers should describe clearly 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 Press formatting guidelines found here.
Accepted submissions will be published in a CEUR proceedings volume (ISSN 1613-0073, DBLP-indexed) together with papers from the FOIS Ontology Competition Papers and the FOIS Early Career Symposium (ECS) submissions.
Submission should be made via EasyChair (select the 'Demonstration' track).
Demo Chair
Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany)