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JOWO 2023
The Joint Ontology Workshops
Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops 2023
Episode IX: The Quebec Summer of Ontology
Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, July 19–20, 2023
Edited by
Fumiaki Toyoshima | Megan Katsumi | Emilio Sanfilippo
and for the workshops
CAOS | WGO | Onto4Fair | IFOW
OSS | KM4LAW | MK | FOUST
JOWO 2023 Workshop chairs
G. Righetti, S. De Giorgis, M. M. Hedblom, O. Kutz (CAOS VII)
B. Brodaric, M. Gruninger, T. Hahmann (WGO)
D. Dooley, M. Lange, H. K. McGinty, A. Sehar, R. Cameron (IFOW)
B. Gajderowicz, D. Rosu, J. Hastings (OSS)
D. Audrito, L. Di Caro, F. Grasso, R. Nai, E. Sulis (KM4LAW)
L. Bozzato, T. Hahmann, C. Shimizu, A. Zimmermann (MK 2023)
F. Toyoshima, R. Baratella, O. Kutz, S. Borgo (FOUST VII)
FOIS 2023 Satellite Events chairs
A.Zimmermann, G. Righetti (Early Career Symposium)
S. de Cesare, T. P. Sales, (Ontology Showcase and Demonstrations)
https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2023/
CEUR
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Proceedings
PREFACE
JOWO – The Joint Ontology Workshops
These proceedings present the papers and extended abstracts that took part in
the Joint Ontology WOrkshops (JOWO’23): Episode IX: The Quebec Summer of
Ontology.
Yearly organised, JOWO is one of the main events of the research mission of the
International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA). Taking the
form of an umbrella conference, each year JOWO hosts a series of workshops and
tutorials that, together, address a wide spectrum of topics related to theoretical
and applied ontology research. Traditional domains include areas in the full span
of cognitive science and humanities, knowledge representation and conceptual
modelling, artificial intelligence and robotics, logic and philosophy, and linguis-
tics and natural language processing. With such an interdisciplinary outlook, the
purpose of JOWO is to provide a platform for the diverse communities interested
in building, reasoning with, and applying formalised ontologies.
Running since 2015, each edition of JOWO has its own character with a different
set of workshops and tutorials—depending on the selection made by the yearly
organisational team and reflecting the respective local research communities and
global research trends. As an umbrella event covering all angles of the IAOA
community, and since 2020 running yearly in conjunction with the IAOA flagship
conference FOIS ‘Formal Ontology in Information Systems’, the Joint Ontology
Workshops JOWO continue to grow in importance and influence.
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JOWO 2023 Workshops
CAOS VII
7th International Workshop on Cognition And Ontologies
Programme Chairs
Guendalina Righetti Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Stefano De Giorgis University of Bologna, Italy
Maria M. Hedblom Jönköping University, Sweden
Oliver Kutz Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Programme Committee
Taisuke Akimoto Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Cristina Amoretti University of Genoa, Italy
Roberta Ferrario ISTC-CNR Trento, Italy
Bart Gajderowicz University of Toronto, Canada
Laura Giordano Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Torsten Hahmann University of Maine, US
Martha Lewis University of Bristol, UK
Todd Oakley Case Western Reserve University, US
Alessandro Otramari Bosch Research and Technology Center, US
Mihai Pomarlan University of Bremen, Germany
Daniele Porello University of Genoa, Italy
He Tan Jönköping University, Sweden
The core goal of ‘CAOS: Cognition And OntologieS’ is to create synergies be-
tween cognitive sciences and research on formal ontologies. With this in mind, the
primary focus of the workshop series lies in the formal modelling and representa-
tion of important cognitive phenomena and concepts, encompassing notions from
research on language, reasoning, and behaviour. The event attracts an interdis-
ciplinary audience from diverse fields, such as philosophy, linguistics, psychology,
cognitive science, computer science, and other related disciplines.
The ultimate objective of CAOS is twofold. First, to encourage innovative re-
search exploring the convergence of the cognitive sciences with formal ontolo-
gies. Second, to provide a platform for discussing unconventional scientific topics
in a welcoming environment. By fostering international collaborations and pro-
moting free-wheeling conversations, CAOS aims to significantly contribute to the
advancement of cutting-edge research.
We are delighted to announce that the seventh edition of CAOS received papers
covering a wide range of topics, contributed by both experienced researchers and
students from different domains. In this edition, we accepted seven papers for
publication in this volume. Related to the domain of knowledge representation
and graph data structures, Michael DeBellis proposed modelling of the mind
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as a representation of Cognitive modules in OWL (Web Ontology Language)
with a functional perspective. By extending an approach used in the context
of relational databases, Jens Koetters, Peter Eklund and Stefan Schmidt apply
relational scaling to RDFS ontologies, advancing methodologies developed in the
framework of Formal Concept Analysis. Fumiaki Toyoshima and Adrien Barton
moved the first steps towards a foundation for a realist ontology representing
mental phenomena, leveraging Williams’s three-layered naturalistic metaphysics
of representation. Hermann Bense proposed Cascaded Role Sets (CRS) as a new
method to enable the representation of complex ontological structures and a novel
strategy for defining Ontology Design Patterns. More linguistic-centred research
is proposed by Laura Spillner, Robert Porzel, Robin Nolte and Rainer Malaka,
who presented a work representing word embedding vectors as 2D images to
individuate the mereotopology of semantic information. Jamie Macbeth, Mackie
Zhou and Zoie Zhao investigated the human sensorimotor perception, analysing
the decomposition of relationships in spatial orientation and by proposing novel
conceptual primitives. Finally, Gabriele Sacco, Loris Bozzato and Oliver Kutz
investigated exceptionality, gradability, and content sensitivity by studying the
role of generics, and the formal desiderata to address them, in defeasible reasoning
and Description Logic.
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WGO
Workshop on Geospatial Ontologies 2023
Where next? The present and future of geospatial ontologies
Programme Chairs
Boyan Brodaric Geological Survey of Canada
Michael Gruninger University of Toronto
Torsten Hahmann University of Maine
Panel
Torsten Hahmann University of Maine
Werner Kuhn University of California Santa Barbara
Antony Galton University of Exeter
Brandon Bennett University of Leeds
Presenters
Tara Azin, Peter Pulsifer Carleton University
Kingsley Wiafe-Kwakye, Torsten Hahmann, Kate Beard University of Maine
Xiuzhan Guo, Wei Huang, Min Luo, Priya Rangarajan Royal Bank of Canada
Yixin Sun, Michael Grüninger University of Toronto
Werner Kuhn University of California Santa Barbara
This workshop was motivated by the tremendous growth in recent years of geospa-
tial information, primarily published online as GIS data, geospatial linked data,
or other semantically enriched data. The availability and volume of such data sug-
gested opportunities to re-evaluate the current ecosystem of geospatial types and
relations in ontologies, vocabularies and data schemas. These range from special-
ized geospatial data standards, such as OGC’s Simple Features or Geosparql, to
domain-specific ontologies or spatially-heavy knowledge graphs, such as those for
the geosciences, transportation, planning, environmental sciences, architecture,
manufactured products, to the spatial components of top-level ontologies.
Through presentations and a panel discussion, this workshop explored the current
state of geospatial ontologies and knowledge graphs, as well as potential future
directions. In particular, discussion during presentations and the panel session
endeavoured to identify gaps and priorities for the next generation of geospatial
ontologies. In addition, the needs of current and potential users, applications, and
standards were considered, as well as current big trends such as geographically-
aware Artificial Intelligence. A general conclusion saw the need for greater inte-
gration between ontology-driven and machine-learning-driven applications.
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IFOW
The Integrated Food Ontology Workshop
Programme Committee
Damion Dooley Simon Fraser University
Matthew Lange IC-FOODS
Hande Küçük McGinty Kansas State University
Anoosha Sehar Simon Fraser University
Rhiannon Cameron Simon Fraser University
Motivated by FAIR data sharing mandates, academic, agricultural and public
health agencies are adopting ontology in their research and data management and
reporting infrastructure, often by way of emerging data sharing standards such
as the Genomic Standards Consortium MIxS collection. It is one thing to have
basic standardized term coverage of various food related domains – from organ-
ism anatomy and taxonomy, to food products, food safety properties, agricultural
treatments, and food processing methods. The next generation of data harmo-
nization occurs at a higher level of modeling – the standardized data structures
for modelling plant and animal trait genomics, agricultural practices, food pro-
cessing, nutritional analysis, contaminant exposure and diet, health and disease
related research. What vocabulary, tool ecosystem and data models are needed
to accomplish this modelling? This workshop seeks to define the coverage of the
different ecological, agricultural, nutritional, dietary, public health, one health
surveillance, food security, and trade domains that food-related ontologies are
modelling, and the use of data translation tools for bringing legacy data into the
ontology fold.
The fourth IFOW workshop introduced a number of projects focusing on food and
ontology from both analytic and infrastructure perspectives, and with a mixture
of specific OWL ontology modelling, often involving FoodOn, or more traditional
tabular database design with an aim to inject ontologies to facilitate data harmo-
nization. Projects focusing on food analytics: the Periodic Table Of Food’s mass
spectrometry of nutritional components; a detailed recipe process model; food
processing hazard risk assessment; and the TransformOn ontology food process
modelling in a circular economy. Two knolwedge graph infrastructure related tool
presentations were about multilingual food vocabulary in Wikipedia, as well as
text-mining for food production and processing company information.
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OSS
International Workshop on Ontologies for Services and Society
Programme Chairs
Bart Gajerowicz Centre for Social Services Engineering, University of Toronto,
Canada
Daniela Rosu Centre for Social Services Engineering, University of Toronto,
Canada
Janna Hastings University of Zurich, University of St. Gallen
Programme Committee
Adrien Barton Département de médecine of the Université de Sherbrooke
Andrew Fisher Simon Fraser University
Maricela Claudia Bravo Departamento de Sistemas, División de Ciencias Básicas e Inge-
nierı́a
Regina Motz Universidad de la República
Roberta Ferrario Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the CNR
Vijay Mago Lakehead University
Paulina Schenk University College London
The OSS workshop fosters communication and strengthens interdisciplinary work
at the intersection of semantic technologies, society, and services. It invites
researchers from the Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web, and Machine
Learning communities to submit theoretical contributions, novel algorithms, arti-
facts, and tools related to the interaction of society and service provisioning. We
welcome reports from sociologists and service practitioners across various society-
focused domains (e.g. social workers, therapists, physicians, probation officers,
urban planners, etc.) on their experiences using semantic-enabled technologies,
best practices, and insights.
The second OSS workshop explored the topic of domain ontologies, with several
researchers presenting their works. Daniela Rosu focused on the inconsistent and
incompatible definitions in social services, proposing an ontology that simplifies
the representation of goals, needs, and outcomes. John Beverly shared updates on
the Occupation Ontology (OccO), explaining their strategy for integrating codes
from various sources and encouraging further community participation. Michael
DeBellis introduced the DaanMatch project, designed to assist NGOs in meeting
administrative requirements through advanced technology and using ontology and
knowledge graph technology to model various related elements. In the application
ontologies section, Giampaolo Bella et al proposed an ontological approach for
cybersecurity compliance checks against textual documents, such as the European
GDPR Regulation and the NIS Directive. Samer Sharani showcased an ontology
of refugees’ home return, with the aim of equipping policymakers with knowledge
tools to improve their programs, plans, and evaluations.
Following presentations, participants engaged in a lively discussion about the
many open questions about the development and application of ontologies in the
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realm of social services, governmental services, and their usage within society.
Despite their wide acceptance and deployment, ontologies face unique challenges
that arise from their inherent complexity, the dynamic nature of service indus-
tries, and societal changes. Also, while service-related ontologies hold significant
potential to improve data management, decision-making, and service delivery,
their adoption by organizations and service providers faces numerous technical
and cultural difficulties.
Specific challenges explored included ontology engineering and design patterns;
choice of upper, domain, and application ontologies; ontological representation of
services and communities (citizens, populations, individuals, etc.); and the com-
plex nature of social service phenomena. Additional topics of discussion for im-
plementing and working with ontologies included semantic interoperability, stan-
dardization, ontology integration, and the scalability of ontology-based systems.
At the end of the discussion, we identified possible solutions and best practices
for ontology implementation in services that benefit society, emphasizing the need
for multi-disciplinary collaboration and a focus on sustainability.
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KM4LAW
2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Process Mining for
Law
Programme Chairs
Davide Audrito Legal Studies Department, University of Bologna, Italy
Luigi Di Caro Computer Science Department, University of Turin, Italy
Francesca Grasso Computer Science Department, University of Turin, Italy
Roberto Nai Computer Science Department, University of Turin, Italy
Emilio Sulis Computer Science Department, University of Turin, Italy
Programme Committee
Kolawole Adebayo Dublin City University, Ireland / ADAPT Centre, Ireland
Valerio Basile University of Turin, Italy
Valerio Bellandi University of Milan, Italy
Guido Boella University of Turin, Italy
Chiara Di Francescomarino University of Trento, Italy
Beatriz Esteves Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Marcelo Fantinato University of São Paulo, Brazil
Daniele Licari Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy
Rohan Nanda University of Maastricht, Netherlands
Marı́a Navas Loro Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Italo Jose Da Silva Oliveira Free University, Bozen-Bolzano
Monica Palmirani University of Bologna, Italy
Matteo Palmonari Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
Harshvardhan J. Pandit Trinity College, Dublin
Sergio Picascia University of Milan, Italy
Davide Riva University of Milan, Italy
Livio Robaldo Swansea University, Wales
Vı́ctor Rodrı́guez-Doncel Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Elena Romanenko University of Bozen
Massimiliano Ronzani FBK, Trento, Italy
Salvatore Sapienza University of Bologna, Italy
Galileo Sartor University of Bologna, Italy
Giovanni Siragusa University of Turin, Italy
Andrea Tagarelli University of Calabria, Italy
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Knowledge Modeling (KM), Information Extraction
(IE) and Process Mining (PM) methods are becoming increasingly relevant to
numerous sub-domains of legal informatics. These areas include ontologies, argu-
mentation, natural language processing, legal event log analysis, all which can be
paired with a multilingual approach. The Knowledge Management and Process
Mining for Law (KM4Law) workshop serves as a forum to discuss these and other
related topics.
The swift advancement of AI in recent years has brought us closer to solving
long-standing challenges in AI & Law. This progress makes it all the more im-
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portant to identify the limits of automated systems, especially when faced with
the remaining unsolved intentional and unintentional ambiguities and conflicts
that demand legal interpretation. This workshop aims to shed light on these is-
sues, exploring the yet unfaced opportunities and challenges that AI presents for
knowledge representation in the legal domain.
The goals of our workshop range widely, covering the classification of legal sources,
legal design, and legal ontologies. Also included are legal decisions similarity and
clustering, prediction and support during judicial decision making, and legal in-
terpretation support. Further topics encompass indentifying the evolution of legal
concepts and definitions over time, information extraction and classification, pro-
cess mining for legal compliance, and the detection of linguistic phenomena and
patterns in legal sources. We also focus on multilingual alignments of concepts,
both domestic and international, and the identification of legal references and
network analysis.
In particular, the second edition of the international workshop KM4LAW featured
a keynote about hybrid AI for legal domain by Monica Palmirani. Six papers
were presented at the workshop, covering diverse topics such as knowledge-based
service architecture for legal document building by Sergio Picascia et al.; aug-
mented reading and similar case matching by Rachele Mignone et at; the appli-
cation of parameter-efficient fine-tuning on legal AI by Kuo-Chun Chien et al.;
a case study integrating legal design through Business Process Model and No-
tation by Davide Audrito and Andrea Filippo Ferraris; an automated method
for the ontological representation of security directives by Gianpietro Castiglione,
Giampaolo Bella, and Daniele Francesco Santamaria; and the adoption of online
context-driven neural networks for hybrid classification of audit court decisions
by Monica Palmirani et al.. The success of the event and the diversity of topics
discussed highlight the workshop’s relevance to current research in the field.
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Modular Knowledge 2023
2nd Modular Knowledge Workshop
Programme Chairs
Loris Bozzato Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Torsten Hahmann University of Maine, USA
Cogan Shimizu Wright State University, USA
Antoine Zimmermann École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France
Programme Committee
Mara Abel Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Grigoris Antoniou University of Huddersfield, UK
Stefano Borgo Italian National Research Council, Italy
Valentina Anita Carriero University of Bologna, Italy
Thomas Eiter Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Catherine Faron Université Côte d’Azur, France
Maria M. Hedblom Jönköping University, Sweden
Martin Homola Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
Francisco Martin-Recuerda SINTEF, Norway
Till Mossakowski University of Magdeburg, Germany
Raghava Mutharaju IIIT-Delhi, India
Vinh Nguyen National Library of Medicine, NIH, USA
Romana Pernisch Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rafael Peñaloza University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Denis Ponomaryov Novosibirsk State University, Russia
Marı́a Poveda-Villalón Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Guendalina Righetti Free University of Bolzano, Italy
Patrick Rodler Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Uli Sattler The University of Manchester, UK
Vojtěch Svátek University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
Kerry Taylor Australian National University and University of Surrey, Australia
Cassia Trojahn UT2J & IRIT, France
Ivan Varzinczak Univ. Artois and CNRS, France
George Vouros University of Piraeus, Greece
Lu Zhou TigerGraph Inc., USA
Valeria de Paiva Samsung Research America and University of Birmingham, UK
The Modular Knowledge workshop offers an interdisciplinary venue for discussing
and developing solutions for modularity of knowledge: the dramatic increase in the
amount of open and linked data and the increasing semantification of such data
make clear that knowledge is not monolithic, static or uniform, and that there
is a need of methods and tools for dealing with heterogeneous and distributed
knowledge as a constellation of modules.
The Modular Knowledge workshop combines the efforts of previous events (like
WoMO, ARCOE-Logic and WOMoCoE workshops) into an interdisciplinary
venue for discussing and developing solutions for modularity of knowledge.
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The workshop aims to cover and establish connections between various approaches
(ranging from rich semantic representations, like Knowledge Graphs and formal
ontology, to simpler schemas, like RDF and database schemas) for representing
knowledge, its context, its evolution, and for making it accessible to automatic
reasoning and knowledge management tasks. The workshop spans approaches
that make use of logic-based, sub-symbolic, or numerical representations.
The second edition of the Modular Knowledge workshop, which took place on
20th July 2023, combined paper presentations with sessions for extensive discus-
sions between the participants. Out of 4 submissions, 3 papers were accepted for
presentation, based on the evaluation of at least 3 reviewers per paper. The papers
discuss methodologies for the development of modular ontologies, methods for
domain modular knowledge graphs, and applications in representation of natural
language.
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FOUST VII
7th Workshop on Foundational Ontology
Programme Chairs
Riccardo Baratella Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Stefano Borgo Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Oliver Kutz Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Fumiaki Toyoshima Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, CNRS, France
Programme Committee
Bahar Aameri University of Toronto, Canada
João Paulo A. Almeida Federal University of Espı́rito Santo, Brazil
Adrien Barton Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, CNRS, France
John Bateman University of Bremen, Germany
Luca Biccheri Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Boyan Brodaric Geological Survey of Canada, Canada
Claudio Calosi University of Geneva, Switzerland
Massimiliano Carrara University of Padova, Italy
Roberta Ferrario Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Claudenir M. Fonseca University of Twente, The Netherlands
Mattia Fumagalli Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Pawel Garbacz John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Pierdaniele Giaretta University of Padova, Italy
Pierre Grenon The National Center for Ontological Research, USA
Michael Grüninger University of Toronto, Canada
Nicola Guarino Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Giancarlo Guizzardi University of Twente, The Netherlands
Heinrich Herre University of Leipzig, Germany
Ludger Jansen PTH Brixen, Italy
Gilles Kassel University of Picardie, France
Kathrin Koslicki Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Frank Loebe University of Leipzig, Germany
Jim Logan No Magic, Inc, USA
Claudio Masolo Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Olivier Massin Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Riichiro Mizoguchi Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Friederike Moltmann Bases, Corpus, Language, Université Côte d’Azur, France
Fabian Neuhaus Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Ítalo José Da Silva Oliveira Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
J. Neil Otte Johns Hopkins University, USA
Daniele Porello University of Genova, Italy
Guendalina Righetti Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Elena Romanenko Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Tiago Princes Sales University of Twente, The Netherlands
Emilio M. Sanfilippo Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Barry Smith University at Buffalo, USA
Markus Stumptner University of South Australia, Australia
Giuliano Torrengo University of Milan, Italy
Nicolas Troquard Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Laure Vieu Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, CNRS, France
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Steering Committee
Stefano Borgo Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy
Oliver Kutz Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Frank Loebe University of Leipzig, Germany
Fabian Neuhaus Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Foundational ontology is about categories of reality or thought which are common
to all or almost all subject-matters. Commonly considered examples of such cat-
egories include ‘object’, ‘quality’, ‘function’, ‘role’, ‘process’, ‘event’, ‘time’, and
‘place’. There are several foundational ontologies that provide a systematic for-
mal representation of these categories, their relationships, and interdependencies.
Amongst existing foundational ontologies, there is both a substantial measure
of agreement and some dramatic disagreements. There is currently no uniform
consensus concerning how a foundational ontology should be organised, how far
its ‘reach’ should be (e.g., is the distinction between physical and non-physical
entities sufficiently fundamental to be included here?), and even what role it
should play in relation to more specialised domain ontologies.
The main use of foundational ontologies is as a starting point for the development
of domain ontologies and application ontologies. A foundational ontology provides
an ontology engineer with a conceptual framework that enables her to analyse a
given domain, identify the entities in the domain as specialisations of the generic
categories in the foundational ontology, and often reuse relationships (e.g., part-
hood) from the foundational ontology. The utilisation of foundational ontologies
for the development of domain and application ontologies has two main benefits.
Firstly, the ontology engineer can reuse an existing set of well-studied ontological
distinctions and design principles instead of having to develop an ad-hoc solution.
Secondly, if two domain ontologies are based on the same foundational ontology,
it is easier to integrate them.
FOUST is an ontology workshop series that offers researchers in foundational
ontology an opportunity to present their results. This includes work on specific
areas of foundational ontology as well as work on a particular foundational on-
tology. The seventh edition of FOUST (FOUST VII) accepted eight papers for
presentation and they are included in the present volume.
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FOIS 2023 Satellite Events
FOIS 2023 Early Career Symposium
Programme Chairs
Guendalina Righetti Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Antoine Zimmermann École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France
ECS mentors
Mara Abel Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles IRIT CNRS, France
Brandon Bennett University of Leeds, UK
Michael Gruninger University of Toronto, Canada
Nicola Guarino Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Giancarlo Guizzardi University of Twente, The Netherlands
Torsten Hahmann University of Maine, USA
Werner Kuhn University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Oliver Kutz Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
The Early Career Symposium (ECS) is an integral part of the FOIS conference,
created with the specific aim of providing students and early career researchers
with a stage to present their work and receive feedback and insights from experi-
enced researchers.
In the spirit of cultivating young talent and fostering knowledge exchange, this
year’s participants in the ECS had the chance to showcase their research through
both short oral presentations in front of the FOIS audience and engaging poster
presentations.
On the first day of the conference, each participant could engage in an extended
conversation with a senior mentor in their respective fields during a dedicated
mentoring lunch. This interaction serves as a bridge between generations of re-
searchers, facilitating guidance, wisdom, and knowledge transfer from experienced
hands to those just starting their academic journey, and, in turn, contributes to
the collective advancement of knowledge by allowing young researchers to provide
innovative ideas.
The ECS is not just about formal presentations and structured mentoring but
also offers a venue to build informal networks and relationships. To facilitate this,
we hosted an ECS dinner, creating a relaxed and friendly atmosphere where early
career researchers could interact with each other more informally, exchange ideas,
and build lasting connections.
As it is connected to the FOIS conference, the ECS welcomes research addressed in
an interdisciplinary aptitude towards formal and philosophical ontology, cognitive
science, knowledge representation, linguistics and more.
This year, seven PhD students participated in the ECS, each offering valuable
contributions to the symposium through their diverse research endeavours. Their
topics spanned a broad spectrum, covering: knowledge extraction from scientific
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publications, with an application to knowledge in cellulose materials; the use
of ontologies for robots, both for spatial and uncertain reasoning; conceptual
foundation of sustainability for AI ethics; development of ontology-based GIS for
supporting forest resource management; the use of generics to model exceptions
in Description Logic; and the role of ontologies in automated reasoning to answer
geospatial queries.
We express our deepest gratitude to all participants, mentors, and attendees for
making ECS an essential component of the FOIS conference.
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FOIS 2023 Demonstrations
Programme Chairs
Sergio de Cesare University of Westminster, United Kingdom
Tiago Prince Sales University of Twente, Netherlands
Programme Committee
C. Maria Keet University of Cape Town, South Africa
Claudenir M. Fonseca University of Twente, Netherlands
Daniele Porello University of Genova, Italy
Davide Lanti Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Jesualdo Fernández-Breis University of Murcia, Spain
Núria Queralt Rosinach Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Peter Winstanley Semantechs Consulting, UK
Walter Terkaj Italian National Research Council, Italy
The demonstration track complements FOIS 2023 main tracks by offering an in-
teractive platform for authors to present and discuss their work. It invites demon-
strations of methods and tools developed using ontologies, as well as those to
create, maintain, integrate, publish, evaluate, and implement ontologies. It also
welcomes demonstrations of novel ontology (anti)patterns and of challenges aris-
ing in the ontology engineering life cycle.
This year, five papers were accepted in the demonstration track. One was pre-
sented during the on-site part of FOIS and the remainder in the online part.
The papers discussed tools for education, reasoning systems, and application of
knowledge graphs.
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FOIS 2023 Ontology Showcase
Programme Chairs
Sergio de Cesare University of Westminster, United Kingdom
Tiago Prince Sales University of Twente, Netherlands
Programme Committee
Bart Gajderowicz University of Toronto, Canada
Damion Dooley Simon Fraser University, Canada
Emilio Sanfilippo Italian National Research Council, Italy
Mara Abel Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Mattia Fumagalli Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Oscar Corcho Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
Pawel Garbacz John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Riccardo Baratella Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Stefano Borgo Italian National Research Council, Italy
As the Applied Ontology community, we have reached the point where an impres-
sive variety of ontologies have been developed across a wide range of domains. For
the most part, however, there has been a lack of coordination among these efforts
and even a lack of awareness about the work that is being done by groups within
the community. The Ontology Showcase at FOIS 2023 facilitates the sharing and
reuse of ontologies, with the goal of achieving the vision of seamless semantic
interoperability of curated ontologies within their applications.
This year, eight ontologies were accepted for presentation. Three were presented
during the on-site part of FOIS. The other five were presented in the online part.
The ontologies described a wide range of domains, including record management,
privacy, cognitive theories, and expertise.
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