17-18 Sep 2018
Cape Town, South Africa
Last CFP EPISTEMOLOGY IN ONTOLOGIES (EPINON II 2018) (Deadline Extension: 2nd July) 2nd International Workshop on EPISTEMOLOGY IN ONTOLOGIES September 17-18 2018, Cape Town, South Africa Part of The Joint Ontology Workshops JOWO 2018 @ FOIS 2018 Workshop Webpage: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/epinon2018/home.html JOWO 2018 Webpage: http://www.iaoa.org/jowo2018/ DESCRIPTION: Formal ontologies and knowledge representation mainly focus on characterising how a given domain is structured, i.e., they identify a set of concepts, entities, and relations together with the constraints that hold for this domain. The structure of the characterisation is usually intended to reflect the point of view of significant experts or a realist view of how things about a particular domain are in reality. The aim of this workshop is to explore an epistemological stance in formal ontology and knowledge representation and focus on the assessment of the modelling provided by the ontology designer. In particular, we are interested in fostering the discussion about two intertwined research directions: (1) EPISTEMOLOGY OF ONTOLOGY. We are interested in promoting discussions about the epistemological foundations of formal ontologies and of knowledge representation. A number of timely important problems are related to this point, for instance: the investigations of cognitively adequate ontological representations, the investigations on the provenance of data, the problem of the reliability of the source of information (both human and artificial, e.g. sensors), the problem of the epistemic reliability of the classification provided by ontology users, the problem of finding epistemically and cognitively well-founded rationales for the integration of ontological representations with other representational approaches (e.g. deep neural networks, vector space models etc.). (2) ONTOLOGY OF EPISTEMOLOGY. We are interested in formal and ontological approaches to the definitions of the concepts that are relevant to the assessment of the perspective of the ontology designer. Problems related to this direction include: ontology of general epistemological concepts (e.g. proof, argument, explanation, epistemic reliability, trust), ontology of cognitive concepts (perception, reasoning, sensations), ontology of data and measurements. AUDIENCE: We aim to address to an interdisciplinary audience, by inviting scholars in philosophy, computer science, logic, conceptual modelling, knowledge representation, and cognitive science to contribute to the discussion. Topics of interest (include but are not restricted to) Epistemological Foundation of Ontologies: - Cognitive foundations of ontologies (e.g. connection with conceptual spaces, diagrammatic representations, mental models, prototypes, image schemas, scripts etc.). - Empirical foundations of ontologies: ontologies driven from observations, measurements, tests, and in general from data acquired using empirical procedures. - Representation of different perspectives on the same domain: contexts, granularity, resolution, ontological levels. - Quantitative approaches/analyses, probabilities, uncertainty, and ontologies. - Neural networks and ontological modelling. - Integration of ontologies with different formats and levels of representation (e.g. neural-symbolic integration). - Inductive reasoning in ontologies. - Ontological Extensions of Cognitive Architectures. Ontological Foundation of Epistemology: - Ontology of propositional attitudes (Knowledge, Belief, etc.). - Ontology of cognitive theories (e.g. conceptual spaces, image schemas, patterns, prototypes). - Ontology of data, observations, and sensors (provenance, trust, quality, reliability). - Ontological approaches to sensor data analysis and data elaboration. - Ontology of truth-makers. Important Dates - Submission deadline: July 2, 2018 - Notification: July 23, 2018 - Camera-ready: August 15, 2018 - September 17-18, 2018 - Workshop (the exact date will be communicated later). Accepted Submissions We welcome two types of submissions: - Regular articles (8-12 pages including the bibliography) for presenting original unpublished work, neither submitted to, nor accepted for, any other venue. - Short articles (5 pages including the bibliography) for presenting brief descriptions of ongoing research and projects, preliminary approaches, or descriptions of related previously published research. Submission Guidelines Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format following IOS Press formatting guidelines (downloadable here: https://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/ ). Papers should be uploaded via Easy Chair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2018 (Select EPINON track) Publication: Articles and abstracts will be published by CEUR workshop proceedings. (For the previous editions of the JOWO proceedings, see www.iaoa.org/jowo/) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Daniele Porello, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Claudio Masolo, ISTC-CNR. Simon Scheider, Utrecht University. -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam