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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Early Career Symposium @ FOIS2023 - Call for Submissions</span><br>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px">Part of the 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems held July 17-20 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Important Dates:</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Submission Deadline: March 15th</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Notification: April 15th</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted2 ContentPasted3 ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Website: <a href="https://fois2023.griis.ca/early-career-symposium/" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">https://fois2023.griis.ca/early-career-symposium/</a></span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The purpose of the Early Career Symposium is to provide students and early career researchers with a stage to present their
work and receive feedback from more experienced researchers.</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Early career researchers will be able to discuss their research directions, ideas, goals, methods, and (possibly) results.
The Early Career Symposium aims to provide students with helpful guidance on different aspects of their research from established researchers and other attendees. Finally, the Early Career Symposium seeks to facilitate students networking within the FOIS research
community.</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The topics of interest of the ECS are the same as the main conference. The symposium is primarily designed for PhD students,
but it is open as well for recently graduated PhDs.</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; text-decoration:underline">Format:</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px">The ECS will be held as an on-site event during the FOIS conference. It will consist of: 1) a mentoring lunch, in which ECS participants will be assigned senior
researchers to provide feedback on participants’ work; 2) a fast-talks session, where participants will have the opportunity to advertise their work in a 5 minutes speech in front of the general audience of the conference; 3) a traditional poster session.</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px">With the ECS, the next generation of researchers at FOIS gets an opportunity to network and build up their careers. To this aim, we also plan to have an informal
ECS/students dinner during the conference — you will be asked to choose whether to participate in the registration process.</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; text-decoration:underline">Submissions:</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px">Submission deadline: March 15th</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px">Notification of acceptance: April 15th</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">To join the ECS, candidates should write a summary (up to 3 pages excluding references) of their research project and upload
it together with their short CV. You can find the template here: <span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"></span></span><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.emse.fr%2F~zimmermann%2FFOIS_ECS_2023%2FECS_submission_template.tex&data=05%7C01%7CGuendalina.Righetti%40stud-inf.unibz.it%7Cc2994a369e47476c862908dafad79409%7C9251326703e3401a80d4c58ed6674e3b%7C0%7C0%7C638098103266143372%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=BWDlTnOyNO%2FToCBZ8MvELYfxlxIt2a082U656YAD5dg%3D&reserved=0" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="ContentPasted0" data-loopstyle="link" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); text-decoration:underline">latex</span></a><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, <span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"></span></span><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.emse.fr%2F~zimmermann%2FFOIS_ECS_2023%2FECS_submission_template.doc&data=05%7C01%7CGuendalina.Righetti%40stud-inf.unibz.it%7Cc2994a369e47476c862908dafad79409%7C9251326703e3401a80d4c58ed6674e3b%7C0%7C0%7C638098103266143372%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=6254qce2UtJKU0Q78NArFa3xPENmB9qjzydGXor19Dw%3D&reserved=0" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="ContentPasted0" data-loopstyle="link" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); text-decoration:underline">doc</span></a><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, <span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"></span></span><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.emse.fr%2F~zimmermann%2FFOIS_ECS_2023%2FECS_submission_template.docx&data=05%7C01%7CGuendalina.Righetti%40stud-inf.unibz.it%7Cc2994a369e47476c862908dafad79409%7C9251326703e3401a80d4c58ed6674e3b%7C0%7C0%7C638098103266143372%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=gd%2F1FOIDByJsx2GExmqG5cuYBF%2FFlYBff0e7JjKrAIM%3D&reserved=0" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="ContentPasted0" data-loopstyle="link" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); text-decoration:underline">docx</span></a><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, <span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"></span></span><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.emse.fr%2F~zimmermann%2FFOIS_ECS_2023%2FECS_submission_template.odt&data=05%7C01%7CGuendalina.Righetti%40stud-inf.unibz.it%7Cc2994a369e47476c862908dafad79409%7C9251326703e3401a80d4c58ed6674e3b%7C0%7C0%7C638098103266143372%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=LRF0J%2B3EXKBECSXrPcKnxOYuWYZ1XgLmKvbgeS%2BsMqM%3D&reserved=0" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="ContentPasted0" data-loopstyle="link" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); text-decoration:underline">odt</span></a><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, <span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"></span></span><a href="https://www.emse.fr/~zimmermann/FOIS_ECS_2023/ECS_submission_template.pdf" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="ContentPasted0" data-loopstyle="link" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); text-decoration:underline">pdf</span></a><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">.</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The template is meant to be used as a general reference to organize the description of the submitted research project in different
sections with specific contents. Make sure that the final version of your submission is in a single PDF file.</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Submissions will be reviewed by selected members of the FOIS Program Committee. Final submission is via EasyChair (see submission
instructions): <span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"></span></span><a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fois2023" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); text-decoration:underline">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fois2023</span></a><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">.</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">After signing in, please select ‘make a new submission’ and then the ‘Early Career Symposium’ track.</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px">Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; margin:0px">Guendalina Righetti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy</span></p>
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