[ecoop-info] FOIS 2014 ontology competition: call for submissions due March 3, 2014

Tue Jan 21 15:46:20 CET 2014

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Ontology competition

at the 8th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information
Systems 

FOIS 2014, September 22-25, 2014, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/all.html

http://www.iaoa.org/fois/

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DEFINITION AND SCOPE

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FOIS papers often refer to ontologies which are not publicly available, or
to ontologies whose relations to other ontologies are not clearly specified.

The aim of the FOIS 2014 ontology competition is (1) to encourage ontology
authors to make their ontologies publicly available and (2) to subject them
to evaluation according to a set of pre-determined criteria. 

Submission is not restricted to ontologies accompanying FOIS research
papers.

The criteria to be used in the competition were identified at the Ontology
Summit 2013 and summarized at
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2013_Communique):

Informal Criteria

1. Can ontologically naive speakers understand the ontology and agree with
one another as well as with the ontology engineers about its design and the
meaning of its terms? (Intelligibility)

2. Does the ontology accurately represent its domain? (Fidelity)

3. Is the ontology well-built and are design decisions followed
consistently? (Craftsmanship)

4. Does the representation of the domain fit the requirements for its
intended use? (Fitness)

5. Does the deployed ontology meet the requirements of the information
system of which it is part? (Deployability)

Logically formalizable criteria

6. Is the ontology consistent?

7. Does the ontology satisfy its intended consequences?

8. Do intended models satisfy the ontology?

9. Has the ontology been aligned/linked with other ontologies?

10. Has an OWL version of the ontology been (formally) linked to a FOL
version?

Criteria for links

11. Do links represent an interesting logical and/or ontological
relationship between ontologies?

12. Do links relate domain and foundational ontologies?

13. Do links provide a logical relation between different versions of one
ontology formulated in different languages?

14. Do links provide the basis for an interesting combination of ontologies?

Each paper should satisfy a non-empty subset of these criteria. Papers
suggesting ways to detail these criteria are welcome as well, as long as
they are accompanied by some sample ontology submitted for evaluation.

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FORMAT

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Each submission should consist of 

A:

1. one or more ontologies, and possibly links between these, and

2. a paper describing the ontologies, addressing at least some of the above
criteria.

or B:

1. one or more links between existing ontologies, and

2. a paper describing the links, addressing at least some of the above
questions.

The paper can either be a regular FOIS paper (that then will be

reviewed both within the main FOIS conference and in the competition

track, with independent acceptance decision), or a short paper

focusing on the description of the ontology/ontologies (and possibly

links) that is reviewed only in the competition track.

Note that links may be formulated as alignments in the ontology

alignment format, see  http://alignapi.gforge.inria.fr/format.html. 

However, the focus of the competition will not be on

mapping individual terms, but on links carrying also some logical

relation between the axioms of the involved ontologies, like

e.g. theory interpretations.

Logical links between versions in different languages (e.g. OWL and FOL) are
of particular interest.

Submissions may have been published previously, but any prior publication

must be cited in the paper. However, the verbatim reproduction of previous

work is not encouraged - and submissions should explicitly address

as many of the fourteen above-mentioned criteria as possible.

At the conference, the best submission(s) will be rewarded a prize.

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IMPORTANT DATES

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Paper Submission Deadline: March 3, 2014

Ontology/Link Submission Deadline: March 10, 2014

Notification: May 5, 2014

Ontology and Paper Final Version Due: June 30, 2014

Conference Dates: September, 22-26, 2014

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 

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Ontologies, links and the paper should be submitted simultaneously.

Ontologies and links should be uploaded to some repository of the Open
Ontology Repository initiative, see http://www.oor.net 

Whilst these repositories share common goals, they have different

specialisations: some support exclusively OWL and related languages,

whilst the COLORE repository focuses on Common Logic, and the

Ontohub.org repository specialises on supporting a variety of

languages. Moreover, some repositories are more domain-specific,

e.g. Bioportal focuses on biomedical ontologies, etc. In any case, all

submissions will be mirrored at one site in order to give reviewers

(and later FOIS participants) a compact access to the ontologies and

links. Submitters should contact mossakow at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de

for details about how to add their ontologies and links to some

repository.

Submitted short papers must not exceed 6 pages (including the

bibliography). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF

format. Submission should be prepared in accordance with the IOS

formatting guidelines found at

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

The Easychair submission page can be found at (please select the competition
track):

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2014 

Short papers will be published within the FOIS proceedings volume in the IOS
Press series 'Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications'.

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COMPETITION ORGANISATION

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Competition committee: 

Aldo Gangemi (Université Paris 13 & CNR-ISTC, France)

Barry Smith (The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA)

Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)

Christoph Benzmüller (FU Berlin, Germany)

Fabian Neuhaus (University of Magdeburg, Germany)

Florian Probst (SAP Research, Germany)

Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA & LIG, France)

Matthew    Horridge (Stanford University, USA)

Michael    Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada)

Oliver Kutz (University of Bremen, Germany)

Robert Hoehndorf (University of Cambridge, UK)

Till Mossakowski (University of Magdeburg, Germany) (chair)

Vinay Chaudhri (SRI International, Menlo Park, USA)

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