<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">[Apologies for potential crossposting]</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We are excited to announce the call for papers for the eighth edition of </span><span style="font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">CAOS - Cognition And OntologieS.</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">CAOS 8 will be co-located with the Joint Ontology Workshops - JOWO 2024 at Enschede, Netherlands (July </span><span style="color:rgb(30,35,40);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">15-19</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">).</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Website</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><a href="https://caos.inf.unibz.it/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://caos.inf.unibz.it/</span></a></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Deadline (extended): April 27th (AoE), 2024</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">About the Workshop:</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The purpose of the workshop is to bridge the gap between the cognitive sciences, and research on formal ontologies and, thus, to create a venue for researchers interested in interdisciplinary aspects of knowledge representation.</font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">More specifically, CAOS investigates key cognitive phenomena and concepts (and the involved terminology) that can be found across language, psychology, and reasoning, and how they can be formally and ontologically understood and analysed. We aim to explore the connection between cognitive sciences/experimental psychology and ontologies, as well as, more generally, symbolic AI, and to provide formal and logical modelling for capturing such connections. CAOS, thus, seeks answers to ways such formalisations and ontological analysis can be exploited in Artificial Intelligence and information systems.</font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We welcome submissions on topics related to the ontology of hypothesised building blocks of cognition (such as image schemas, affordances, categories, concepts, and related notions) and of cognitive capacities (such as concept invention and combination, language acquisition and categorisation), as well as system-demonstrations modelling these capacities in application settings. We also welcome submissions addressing the cognitive and epistemological adequacy of ontological modelling.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Important Dates:</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"></p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700;text-align:justify">Submission deadline: April 27, 2024 </span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-align:justify;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Notification of acceptance: </span><span style="text-align:justify;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">May 22, 2024</span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-align:justify;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Camera-ready (post-conference proceedings) deadline: </span><span style="text-align:justify;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">July 30, 2024</span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-align:justify;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Workshop:</span><span style="text-align:justify;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> July 15-19, 2024</span></font></li></ul><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">List of Topics:</font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><ul style="font-weight:bold"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">CAOS invites paper contributions related (but not restricted) to the following areas:</span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Ontologies of cognitive phenomena</span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Logic and Cognition (challenges, possible solutions and validation scenarios)</span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Formal representation of cognitive structures / functions / processes (e.g. Conceptual Spaces, etc)</span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Knowledge Representation and Common-Sense</span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Formalisation of language, image schemas and/or affordance</span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Embodied language acquisition</span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Concept invention and concept combination </span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Cognitive development from an ontological perspective </span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Metaphors and analogies (formal representation, ontological analysis)</span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Artificial language understanding</span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Natural language applications / system-demonstrations / LLMs and cognition</span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Knowledge acquisition and categorisation in AI and Robotics</span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Tool use and affordances</span><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Concept-based computational creativity</span><br></font></li></ul><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Type of Contributions: </font></b></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><br></b>We welcome diverse contributions including research papers, case studies, and theoretical explorations that align with the workshop's themes. We accept three types of papers: <br></font></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Abstract for presentation only:</b> 2-3 pages, 10-15 minutes presentation (not included in the proceedings as papers)<br><b>Short papers: </b>6-8 pages, 10-15 minutes presentation <br><b>Full research papers:</b> max. 10-14 pages, 20-25 minutes presentation <br>(Page number includes references, presentations include Q&A.)<br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span id="m_4174496859692799946gmail-docs-internal-guid-01cd7879-7fff-fe9d-ace3-08e7112d6b78"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Submissions must be sent via Easychair as a single PDF file and should be formatted in CEUR 1-column format.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Template</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">:</span><a href="https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html</span></a><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">; </span><a href="https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw</span></a><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Submission link</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2024" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2024</span></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. Please select the track JOWO Workshop - Cognition and OntologieS (CAOS8).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For inclusion in the workshop, at least one of the authors of accepted papers must register at JOWO 2024 and participate on-site at CAOS.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Location:</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">CAOS is co-located with JOWO (</span><a href="https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/workshops/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/workshops/</span></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">) held in the beautiful city of Enschede, Netherlands. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Join us at CAOS to add a sparkle of cognition to the main event! We look forward to your valuable contributions to a fruitful and thought-provoking discussion.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Best regards,  </span></p><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Stefano De Giorgis</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Maria M. Hedblom</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Oliver Kutz</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Guendalina Righetti</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Gabriele Sacco</span></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></span></font></div></div>