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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>[With apologies for cross-posting]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Early Career Symposium at FOIS 202</span>1<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://fois2021.inf.unibz.it"><span style='color:#1155CC'>https://fois2021.inf.unibz.it</span></a><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Important dates:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>June 1, 202</span>1<span style='color:black'>: Submission deadline<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>July 1, 202</span>1<span style='color:black'>: Notification of acceptance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>August </span>2<span style='color:black'>, 202</span>1<span style='color:black'>: Submission of camera-ready version</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>September 13-16, 2021: ECS at FOIS 2021<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Scope<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>The </span>International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems<span style='color:black'> (FOIS) is one of the leading conferences in ontology engineering. FOIS aims to promote interdisciplinary research and international collaboration at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in the applications of ontological analysis to conceptual modelling, knowledge engineering, knowledge management, information-systems development, library and information science, scientific research, and semantic technologies in general.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>The FOIS 202</span>1<span style='color:black'> conference, to be held in Bolzano-Bozen (Italy), September </span>13-16<span style='color:black'>, 202</span>1<span style='color:black'>, will host an Early Career Symposium (ECS). This event is designed to provide an opportunity for graduate students to present their work at one of the leading conferences in formal ontology and to get first-hand feedback and mentorship from senior researchers in their field. Topics of interest include all topics relevant to the interdisciplinary field of ontology as outlined in the topics of interest for FOIS 202</span>1<span style='color:black'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Format<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>The ECS will be held as a hybrid poster </span>event<span style='color:black'> within the main FOIS conference. The poster </span>event<span style='color:black'> will be </span>preceded <span style='color:black'>by a </span>hybrid <span style='color:black'>lightning talks session, during which each participant has the opportunity to advertise his/her work in a 5 minute speech in front of the general audience of the conference, eith</span>er in person at the venue or remotely<span style='color:black'>. Each participant will be assigned a senior researcher as mentor, who will provide substantial feedback to his/her work.<span style='background:#E6B8AF'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Submissions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>The ECS is open to students at the Master and Doctoral Levels that have not defended their thesis before the ECS Submission deadline.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Candidates must submit a short description of their research project, which should not be longer than 3 pages. Submissions will be reviewed by selected members of the FOIS Program Committee. </span>Final submission is via EasyChair (see submission instructions): <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2021"><span style='color:#1155CC'>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2021</span></a>. After signing in, select the ‘Early Career Symposium (ECS)’ track.<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>The submissions should follow the submission template available here</span>: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/sdwrn6km"><span style='color:#1155CC'>https://tinyurl.com/sdwrn6km</span></a><span style='color:black'>. The template is meant to be used </span>as a general<span style='color:black'> reference to organize the description of the submitted research project in different sections with specific contents. Make sure that the final version of your submission is in</span> a single pdf file<span style='color:black'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>The abstracts (up to 500 words), included in the projects' descriptions, </span>will be published open access in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, as part of the new IAOA series (<a href="http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html"><span style='color:#1155CC'>http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html</span></a>).<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Registration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>The successful authors must register for the main conference. Registration </span>will be free for all students participating remotely.<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black;background:#FFF2CC'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>ECS Organizers <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Selja Seppälä, PhD | Marie Sk³odowska-Curie Career-FIT Fellow </span>|<span style='color:black'> GR3C | University College Cork, Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Pawel Garbacz, PhD | </span>Full <span style='color:black'>Professor | The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Contact<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ecsfois2021@gmail.com">ecsfois2021@gmail.com</a><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>