[agents] FOIS 2023 Online: Call for Participation

[Selja Seppälä]

===== Call for Participation to online FOIS 2023 conference, showcases 
and demos =====

Program: https://fois2023.griis.ca/online-conference/

Registration: https://event.fourwaves.com/fr/fois2023/inscription
(free registration for students)

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13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems 
(FOIS 2023), September 18-20, 2023 (Online)

Definition and scope
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The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an 
interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of 
the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest 
represented in modern information systems. FOIS 2023 will have distinct 
tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and 
domain ontologies. FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research 
and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal 
ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database 
design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, 
organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, 
computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and 
scientific research in general, geographic information science, 
information retrieval, library and information science, as well as the 
Semantic Web.

FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for 
Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: http://iaoa.org/), which is a 
non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and 
international collaboration in formal ontology.

Program
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Monday September, 18th
EDT (UTC -4)    CEST (UTC +2)
08:15-08:30    14:15-14:30    FOIS online Welcome    Zoom
08:30-10:30    14:30-16:30    Session 1: Foundational concepts (Chair: 
Laure Vieu)    Zoom
10:30-11:00    16:30-17:00    Coffee break    gather.town
11:00-12:00    17:00-18:00    Ontology showcases and demos gather.town

Tuesday  September, 19th
08:30-09:00    14:30-15:00    Invited talks special session (TBC)    Zoom
09:00-10:30    15:00-16:30    Session 2: Methodological issues (TBA)    Zoom
10:30-11:00    16:30-17:00    Coffee break    gather.town
11:00-12:00    17:00-18:00    ESAO panel    Zoom

Wednesday  September, 20th
09:00-10:30    15:00-16:30    Session 3: Domain ontologies (TBA)    Zoom
10:30-11:00    16:30-17:00    Coffee break    gather.town
11:00-12:00    17:00-18:00    IAOA General Assembly    Zoom
12:00-12:15    18:00-18:15    Closing     Zoom

Details: https://fois2023.griis.ca/onlinesession/

Registration fees
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Online presenter: 500 CAN / 340 EUR
Listener - regular fee (academia or industry): 100 CAN / 70 EUR
Listener - reduced fee (student or participant from less developed 
contry): free

More information: https://fois2023.griis.ca/registration/

Conference Organization
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General Chair:    Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK
PC Chairs:    Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France
             Torsten Hahmann, University of Maine, USA
Local Organization Chair:    Jean-François Ethier, University of 
Sherbrooke, Canada
Online Chair:    Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France
Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:     Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, 
Canada
                                 Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy
Early Career Chairs:    Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de 
Saint-Étienne (EMSE), France
                         Guendalina Righetti, Free University 
Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
Demo & Showcase Chairs:    Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK
                         Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, 
Netherlands
Publicity Chairs:    Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany
                     Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland
Proceedings Chair:    Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden
Program committee: https://fois2023.griis.ca/conference-organization/