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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><b>FOUST VIII</b></p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><b>8th Edition of the Foundational Ontology Workshop</b></p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">part of the 10th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2024), held at the 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS), </p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">July 15-19, 2024</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Website: https://foust.inf.unibz.it</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Contact: foustworkshop@gmail.com</p>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><b>Submission deadline:</b> <b>April 17, 2024</b></p>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><b>About the workshop:</b></p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Foundational Ontologies are attempts to systematise very high-level categories of thought or reality. In practical terms, they aim to understand and formalise
the meaning of very general terms, such as object, event, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">property, time, quality, relation, and process. Once formalised, these terms provide the top-level categories that are in principle common to many (if not all)
domains of application. Consequently, Foundational Ontologies are widely acknowledged as crucial tools for tackling system and software interoperability issues. Despite this recognition, there is less consensus on the specific entities a foundational ontology
should cover, its organisational structure, its scope, and even its role in relation to more specialised domain ontologies. This lack of consensus often reflects deep-rooted debates stemming from different philosophical perspectives on reality, mind, and language.</span><br>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Traditionally FOUST concentrates on a series of topics in foundational ontology. This encompasses discussing philosophical foundations, presenting new research on specific foundational
ontologies, discussing existing foundational ontologies, comparing them, and examining their relevance to the broader ontological enterprise. In some editions, FOUST adds a special topic to attract attention to some research questions. Along with this tradition,
this year's focus revolves around the role of<b> constructional approaches in applied ontology</b>.</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The concept of constructional ontology, introduced by Kit Fine in his influential paper “The Study of Ontology” (1991), involves assuming a set of ontological
givens or basic elements and a set of constructors that can be iteratively applied to generate new elements in the ontology. This idea is related to the iterative conception of sets (Gödel 1964, Boolos 1971), a powerful paradigm in the philosophy of mathematics
designed to prevent paradoxes (e.g. the “Russell set”).</span><br>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Besides the usual topics, this edition of FOUST aims to explore how similar ideas can be implemented in applied ontology. What does it mean to have a constructional ontology, in practice?
Are there recurring patterns that can be considered as ontological givens? Do reusable patterns of constructions exist? What are the conceivable means of construction, and, crucially, what are the practical advantages of adopting such an approach in applied
ontology?</p>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">In fostering and starting a discussion of these themes, FOUST VIII welcomes presentations of ongoing research and perspectives that encourage interdisciplinary dialogue among the diverse
sub-fields of applied ontology. Papers centred around the traditional workshop topics are also highly encouraged.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><b>Topics of interest </b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">include (but are not limited to):</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Constructional approaches in applied ontology.</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Methodological aspects in applied ontology.</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Changes to existing foundational ontologies/extensions by new modules.</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Novel research on any specific category or topic that is usually covered by foundational ontology:</span><br>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">functions, </span></li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">roles, </span></li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">time, </span></li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">mereology,</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">ontological dependence, </span></li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">constitution,</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">properties and intensional entities,</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">collectives and social entities.</span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Theoretical results about specific foundational ontologies (e.g., consistency proofs, modularizations)</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Application results of foundational ontologies in AI, the Semantic Web, Linguistics, and more.</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Conceptual and formal comparisons and alignments of foundational ontologies.</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Relationship and alignment of foundational ontologies and domain ontologies.</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Philosophical foundations for applied ontology.</span><br>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><b>Important Dates:</b></p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Submission deadline: April 17, 2024</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2024</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Camera-ready deadline: June 30, 2024</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Workshop dates: July 15-17, 2024</p>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><b>Submissions:</b></p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">We welcome three types of submissions. </p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Abstracts for presentation only: 2-3 pages </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(not included as a paper in the proceedings);</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Short papers: 5-9 pages;</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Full research papers: max. 10-14 pages.</span><br>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Submissions must be sent via Easychair as a single PDF file and should be formatted in CEUR 1-column format.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Submission link</b>: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk559673" previewremoved="true">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2024</a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><b>Organisation:</b></p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Greta Adamo, BC3 – Basque Centre for Climate Change</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Guendalina Righetti, University of Oslo</p>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><b>Steering committee:</b></p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Stefano Borgo – Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Oliver Kutz – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Frank Loebe – University of Leipzig, Germany</p>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Fabian Neuhaus – Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany</p>
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