[PlanetKR] 3rd CfP POWERs @ JOWO / FOIS 2025 - September 8-9, 2025, in Catania, Italy

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POWERs - Perspectival Ontology Workshop on Entities that can be Realized

Part of the 11th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2025),

Co-located with the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in
Information Systems (FOIS)

September 8-9, 2025

Catania, Italy



Website: https://powers-workshop.github.io/

Contact:  powers.workshop at gmail.com

Submission deadline: 14 June 2025 (final extension)



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About the workshop:



There is a long-standing view according to which potency precedes
actuality. Under this view, the happening of an event consists in the
realization or manifestation of potentialities that already exist in the
event’s participants. Indeed, the world seems full of entities that
encapsulate such potentialities, which we usually refer to as realizable
entities, with dispositions being among the most significant. A disposition
is an entity that inheres in another entity and determines the behavior of
the latter under certain circumstances. Dispositions are closely related to
the causal powers that objects have in the world and encompass what we
usually call abilities, capabilities, tendencies, propensities,
liabilities, capacities, and so on.

As they link the static structure of the world (i.e., the
endurants/continuants that populate it) to its dynamical structure (i.e.,
the perdurants/occurrents that can happen to or be performed by such
continuants), realizable entities have become a popular topic in the Formal
Ontology community, being subject of active research. Among other
applications, realizable entities have been employed to represent diseases
and biological functions, provide ontological grounds for risks and
probabilities, model engineered artifacts and affordances, and describe
organizational capabilities and social roles.

The purpose of POWERs is to turn the spotlight on this issue, providing a
venue for researchers and practitioners to present their work on
dispositions and other realizable entities, exploring its various
perspectives.



Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

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   Characterization and formalization of realizable entities (e.g., single
   vs. multi-track dispositions, degrees of realization, formalisms for
   reasoning based on dispositions);
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   Types of realizable entities (e.g., discussions on whether some core
   entities such as roles and biological/artifactual functions are realizable);
   -

   Relation between realizable entities and entities from other ontological
   categories (e.g., qualities, events);
   -

   Domain applications (e.g., biology, health sciences, industry,
   enterprise modeling);
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   Philosophical investigations relevant to formal ontology, such as:
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      Is the distinction between realizable and non-realizable (sometimes
      called “categorical”) properties metaphysical or linguistic?
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      Intrinsicness vs. extrinsicness of realizable entities.
      -

      How may the distinction between dispositions and powers be relevant
      for formal ontology?
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      Can dispositions provide a good account of causation? Can they offer
      a good substitute for laws of nature in ontology?
      -

      How could blocks, finks, and antidotes be relevant for applied
      ontology?


Important Dates:



Submission deadline: 14 June 2025 (final extension)

Notification of acceptance: 14 July 2025

Camera-ready deadline: 1 September 2025

Workshop dates: 8-9 September 2025



Submissions:



We welcome three types of submissions.

Abstract for presentation only: 2-3 pages (not included as a paper in the
proceedings);

Short papers: 6-8 pages;

Full research papers: max. 10-14 pages.



Submissions must be sent via Easychair as a single PDF file and should be
formatted in CEUR one-column format.

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Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fois2025
<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fois2025>

(Select the track “WS: Entities that can be Realized”)



Organization:



Fabrício Henrique Rodrigues – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
(UFRGS), Brazil

Adrien Barton – CNRS, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
(IRIT), France
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