3rd Workshop on Foundational Ontology

Proceedings

Proceedings are publicly available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2518/.

Program

FOUST will take place between 3pm on Tuesday (24.9) and 3pm on Wednesday (25.9).

The schematic JOWO schedule is here: JOWO Schedule

Accepted Papers

Aligning Conference ontologies with SUMO: a report on manual alignment via WordNet
Daniela Schmidt, Adam Pease, Cassia Trojahn and Renata Vieira
Foundationless Ontologies
Michael Gruninger and Megan Katsumi
How Do Processes Work?
Fumiaki Toyoshima
Properties Defined on the Basis of Coincidence in GFO-Space
Ringo Baumann, Heinrich Herre and Frank Loebe
Towards a Unified Theory of Endurants and Perdurants: UFO-AB
Alessander Botti Benevides, João Paulo A. Almeida and Giancarlo Guizzardi
The Identity of Property Particulars
Claudio Masolo and Adrien Barton
A formal ontology of relations based on truthmaking
Daniele Porello, Nicola Guarino and Giancarlo Guizzardi
Directing actions
Adrien Barton, Laure Vieu and Jean-Francois Ethier
Dialectical ontology as a more practical and more natural ontology paradigm
Timothy Musgrove
No Chance for the Change Argument – A Reply to Stout’s “The Category of Occurrent Continuants”
Riccardo Baratella
Kinds of Physical Features
Boyan Brodaric

Call for papers

3rd Workshop on Foundational Ontology (FOUST III)
http://foust.inf.unibz.it/

Co-located with the Joint Ontology Workshops, JOWO-2019, Graz, Austria
https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2019/

Important dates

~~Submission deadline: 31 May 2019~~
Abstract submission deadline: 31 May 2019
Paper submission deadline: 15 June 2019
Workshop date: 23-25 September 2019 @JOWO 2019 (exact date TBD)

Workshop topics

Foundational ontologies are attempts to systematise those categories of thought or reality which are common to all or almost all subject-matters. Commonly considered examples of such categories include ‘object’, ‘quality’, ‘function’, ‘role’, ‘process’, ‘event’, ‘time’, and ‘place’. Amongst existing foundational ontologies, there is both a substantial measure of agreement and some dramatic disagreements. There is currently no uniform consensus concerning how a foundational ontology should be organised, how far its ‘reach’ should be (e.g., is the distinction between physical and non-physical entities sufficiently fundamental to be included here?), and even what role it should play in relation to more specialised domain ontologies. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present work on specific foundational ontologies as well as foundational ontologies in general and their relations to each other and to the wider ontological enterprise.

Relevant topics include:

Changes to existing foundational ontologies / extension by new modules
Any specific category or topic usually covered by foundational ontology (e.g., functions, roles, time, mereology)
Theoretical results about specific foundational ontologies (e.g., consistency proof of significant parts of an existing foundational ontology)
Comparison and alignments of foundational ontologies
Relationship between foundational ontologies and domain ontologies
Applications of foundational ontologies in AI, Semantic Web, Linguistics, etc.

Submissions

We encourage different types of contribution:

Full research paper: Submitted papers must not exceed 10 pages (including the bibliography) and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words.
Short paper: Submitted papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the bibliography) and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words.

Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format following IOS Press formatting guidelines, which can be found at

http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/

The Easychair submission page can be found at

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2019

(select the track “3rd Workshop on Foundational Ontology”)

All contributions to JOWO workshops will be published in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, compare