[DL] [CfP] CAOS - Cognition And OntologieS at TriColoLore, December 1-4, 2026, PTH Brixen College, Bressanone, Italy

[CAOS - Cognition and Ontologies Workshop]

[Apologies for potential crossposting]

We are pleased to announce a call for papers extension for the tenth
edition of CAOS - Cognition And OntologieS.

CAOS 10 will be held at TriCoLore <https://tricolore.inf.unibz.it/>, hosted
at PTH Brixen College, in Bressanone, Italy.

Website: https://caos.inf.unibz.it/

Submission deadline: 18th September 2026

About the Workshop

The workshop aims to bring together research in cognitive science, formal
ontology, knowledge representation, and AI, fostering interdisciplinary
exchange among researchers interested in different approaches to knowledge
representation.

CAOS investigates fundamental cognitive phenomena and concepts across
language, psychology, knowledge representation and reasoning, with a focus
on how they can be formally modelled. CAOS aims to investigate the
interplay between cognitive phenomena, experimental psychology, their
formal representation and computational implementation in AI systems, while
bringing together different perspectives on understanding and modelling the
complexity of human cognition.

We welcome contributions investigating the ontological foundations or
formal representation of cognitive phenomena and capacities, including
concept invention and combination, categorisation, defeasible and
analogical reasoning, abstraction, and related cognitive processes. We are
also interested in works addressing the cognitive and epistemological
adequacy of formal frameworks, systems or architectures, particularly in
relation to current developments in AI.

Important dates

Submission opens: 1st August 2026

Abstract submission deadline: 7th September 2026

Paper submission deadline: 18th September 2026

Notification: 25th October 2026

Camera-ready version due: 16th November 2026

List of Topics

CAOS invites paper contributions related (but not restricted) to the
following areas:

   -

   Ontologies of cognitive phenomena, including their relationship to LLMs
   and other AI systems
   -

   Formal models and AI approaches for abstraction
   -

   Formal models and AI approaches for analogical reasoning
   -

   Logic and Cognition, also in the context of hybrid AI systems
   -

   Formal representation of cognitive structures/functions/processes (e.g.,
   Conceptual Spaces, Neural-Symbolic Integration)
   -

   Knowledge Representation and Common-Sense reasoning
   -

   Formalization of language, affordances and language acquisition in
   embodied AI
   -

   Cognitive development from an ontological perspective
   -

   Integration of ontologies with large language models for enhanced
   cognition
   -

   Knowledge acquisition and categorization in AI and Robotics
   -

   Concept-based computational creativity, concept invention and concept
   combination


Type of Contributions

We accept 3 types of contribution:

   -

   Abstract for presentation only: 2 pages
   -

   Short papers: 6-8 pages
   -

   Full research papers: max. 10-14 pages

The proceedings of the workshops will be published as a joint volume in the
CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (template
<https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw>
).

Link for submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caos10.

Possible updates and further details on submission instructions:
https://tricolore.inf.unibz.it.

Join us at CAOS in beautiful Bressanone, surrounded by the magic of its
Christmas market! We look forward to exchanging ideas, exploring new
connections across disciplines, and engaging in fruitful and
thought-provoking discussions.

Best regards,

Stefano De Giorgis
Guendalina Righetti
Gabriele Sacco
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