[PlanetKR] CFP: 7th Workshop on Formal Ontologies meet Industry (FOMI 2015) DEADLINE EXTENDED

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PLEASE NOTICE: Due to many requests, the submission deadline has been  
extended to May 1st

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7th Workshop on FORMAL ONTOLOGIES MEET INDUSTRY (FOMI 2015)
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5. August 2015, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany
http://www.csw.inf.fu-berlin.de/fomi2015/


FOMI is an international forum where academic researchers and  
industrial practitioners meet to analyse and discuss application  
issues related to methods, theories, tools and applications based on  
formal ontologies. Today there is wide agreement that knowledge  
modelling and the semantic dimension of information plays an  
increasingly central role in the networked economy: semantic-based  
applications aim to provide a framework for information and knowledge  
sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and  
coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the  
same organization. Often, theoretical ideas seem very promising but  
their actual implementation brings up unexpected problems and issues.  
The FOMI 2015 Workshop aims to discuss problems, solutions,  
perspectives and research directions for both researchers and  
practitioners. We welcome papers or project descriptions that are  
aimed at applying formal ontologies in industry. In particular:

- theoretical studies on formal ontologies committed to provide sound  
bases for industrial applications and to allow formal representation  
of corporate knowledge;
- business experiences on case studies that single out concrete  
problems and possible solutions; the experience analysis should  
provide useful insights on social or strategic aspects that might be  
relevant in the creation and deployment of formal ontologies as well  
as useful criteria or methods to evaluate ontologies and their  
effectiveness in applications.


Conference Topics
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The following is not an exhaustive list.

Problems in ontology application:

- practical issues in using ontologies in the enterprise
-real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business
- from legacy systems to the new ontology-driven systems
- ontology evaluation
- ontology for learning organizations
- ontology for business processes and practices
- enterprise modeling and business models
- ontology for service science and service values

Ontology and knowledge management:

- ontology and ontological methodologies in knowledge management
- adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations
- ontology interoperability
- ontology development and change within organizations
- ontology effectiveness and evaluation
- ontology-driven representation of products, services,  
functionalities, design, processes
- ontologies for the know-how
- ontologies for corporate knowledge
- linguistic representation in organizational knowledge
- ontology based content creation

Ontology in practice:

- ontologies for electronic catalogues, e-commerce, e-government
- ontologies for marketing
- ontologies for finance
- ontologies for medical sciences
- ontologies for engineering
- ontologies for public administration
- copyright and privacy issues in ontology based systems


Submissions and important dates
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The papers should be submitted to EasyChair

Deadline for paper submissions: 1 May (Extended deadline)
Notification of acceptance: 10 May, 2015
Camera ready submission: 25 May 2015
Workshop: 5 August 2015


Submission guidelines
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The proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer’s LNBIP  
series. Submitted original papers written in English must not exceed  
12 pages (including the bibliography) and include an abstract of no  
more than 150 words.  Papers should be prepared in accordance with the  
“Information for LNBIP Authors” guidelines found at  
http://www.springer.com/series/7911. Papers must be submitted  
non-anonymously at Easychair  
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fomi2015. To ensure high  
quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC  
members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and  
clarity of exposition.


Workshop Chairs
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Roberta Cuel, University of Trento, Italy (roberta.cuel at unitn.it)
Bob Young, Loughborough University, UK (R.I.Young at lboro.ac.uk)


Program Committee
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Francesco Bellomi, Creactives GmbH, Germany
Stefano Borgo, ISTC-CNR Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Italy
Matteo Cristani, University of Verona, Italy
Soumaya El Kadiri, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Roberta Ferrario ISTC-CNR Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Italy
Nicola Guarino, ISTC-CNR Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Italy
Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Research Center for Service Science, JAIST, Japan
Alessandro Oltramari, CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Sonja Pajkovska-Goceva, Fraunhofer IPK, Berlin, Germany
Adam Pease, IPsoft, San Francisco, USA
Harald Sack, Hasso Plattner Institut, Potsdam, Germany
Aleksandra Sojic, ITIA-CNR, Milan, Italy
Walter Terkaj, ITIA-CNR, Milan, Italy
Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA
Hans Weigand, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Netherlands
Marco Zamarian, University of Trento, Italy

Workshop Venue
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The conference is co-located with the 9th International Web Rule  
Symposium (RuleML 2015)
Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Website: http://2015.ruleml.org
For further information feel free to contact Roberta Cuel  
roberta.cuel at unitn.it