JOWO 2025
The Joint Ontology Workshops

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 104 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshops. Out of these, 70 papers were accepted for this volume, 53 as regular papers, 17 as short papers.

CAOS: Cognition And OntologieS Workshop

• An Argumentation for Embodied Plant Cognition with Parallels from Animal Cognition (short paper)
  Maria M. Hedblom
• Beyond Copies: Digital Twins as Information Artefacts
  Luca Biccheri , Roberta Ferrario
• Large Language Models as a Tool for Mining Object Knowledge
  Hannah Y. An , Lenhart K. Schubert
• Representing the Conceptual Design Process in Engineering using IAO and OBI
  Dilek Yargan , Ludger Jansen
• Non-Monotonic Generalisation of an Ontology
  Gabriele Sacco , Loris Bozzato , Oliver Kutz , Michael Grüninger
• Towards a Semantic Representation of Memory Entities
  Soline Felice , Frank Arnould , Cassia Trojahn
• Coordination, Semantics and Ontologies
  Francesco A. Zaccarini , Claudio Masolo
• Shadows to Referents: An Ontological Interpretation of Plato’s Cave for Anomaly Resolution (short paper)
  John H. Bittner , John Beverley , Timothy W. Coleman
• Characterising Competency Questions for Ontologies
  C. Maria Keet , Zubeida Casmod Khan

FOMI: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Workshop

• An Ontology for Selecting Inorganic Material Analytical Methods and Its Industrial Application
  Kaito Sunada , Yoshinobu Kitamura , Shuichi Itakura , Ryoichi Sasamoto , Shizuka Hosoi
• SysDO: A Domain-Level Ontology for Cross-Domain System Design in Aircraft Manufacturing
  Zhengyu Liu , Sina Namaki Araghi , Arkopaul Sarkar , Amine Karoui , Rebeca Arista , Mohamed Hedi Karray
• An Ontology Design Pattern for Industry Classification in the Facilities and Industries Ontology (FIO)
  Katrina Schweikert , Torsten Hahmann
• A Data-Driven Ontology Framework for Integrating Heterogeneous Vulnerability Sources
  Domenico Amalfitano , Domenico Benfenati , Davide Landolfi , Antonio Maria Rinaldi , Cristiano Russo , Cristian Tommasino
• An Ontological Approach for Generating Precedence Matrices of Assemblies Directly from CAD Files (short paper)
  Amir Jaberi , Mihai Pomarlan , Oliver Kutz , Angelika Peer
• An Ontological Approach for the Validation of Simulation Models of Manufacturing Systems
  Sergio Benavent Nácher , Stefano Borgo , Pedro Rosado Castellano , Francesco Compagno

FOUST: Workshop on Foundational Ontology

• Order in the Mereology of Slots (short paper)
  Laure Vieu , Adrien Barton
• Building Up: foundations and material for definitional ontology construction
  Brandon Bennett
• Malfunctioning artifacts: A step towards a realizable-centered unifying account
  Fumiaki Toyoshima , Ludger Jansen
• Subsumption in the Mirror of Ontological and Logical Choices
  Fumiaki Toyoshima , Satoru Niki
• Towards a reference ontology of the spatial location of physical objects
  Lucas V. Vieira , Cauã R. Antunes , Mara Abel , Fabricio H. Rodrigues , Lisa Stright
• Comparing Information Exchange Standard and Basic Formal Ontology Design Patterns
  Ian Bailey , John Beverley , Helena Blackmore , Andreas Cola , Paul Cripps , Giacomo de Colle , Federico Donato , Amanda Hicks , David Limbaugh , Elena Milivinti , Chris Partridge , Rebecca Rafferty , Barry Smith
• SULO — a simplified upper-level ontology
  Michel Dumontier , Remzi Çelebi , Komal Gilani , Isabelle de Zegher , Katerina Serafimova , Catalina Martínez Costa , Stefan Schulz

IFOW: The Integrated Food Ontology Workshop

• ConsomON, an ontology for structuring knowledge and modeling consumer food behavior
  Magalie Weber , Florian Duclos , Hervé Guillemin , Stephane Dervaux , Julien Cufi , Michel Visalli
• Representing food waste in ontologies: A role-based account
  Fumiaki Toyoshima , Adrien Barton , Damion Dooley
• Human Verification of LLM-Powered Structured Data Extraction from Image Files (short paper)
  Katherine Thornton , Kenneth Seals-Nutt , Mika Matsuzaki , Marcel Nguemaha
• Towards an Ontology of Traceable Impact Management in the Food Supply Chain
  Bart Gajderowicz , Mark Fox , Yongchao Gao

KM4LAW: 4th International Workshop - Knowledge Management and Process Mining for Law

• Augmenting Public Procurement Event Logs with Large Language Models: a Legal Process Mining Approach (short paper)
  Ivan Spada , Emilio Sulis , Davide Audrito , Vittoria Margherita Sofia Trifiletti , Roberto Nai
• Units of Analysis for the Legal Domain: A Legal Document Ontology (short paper)
  William Mandrick , Olivia Hobai

ONTOLLM: 2nd Annual Workshop on the Convergence of Large Language Models and Ontologies

• Modeling Climate Obstruction with a Neurosymbolic Architecture
  Michael DeBellis , George Gino , Aadarsh Balaji , Jacob Gino
• RAG and Ontologies for Information Retrieval: A Literature Review
  Bart Gajderowicz , Aviral Bhardwaj , Mark Fox
• Advanced Planning and Scheduling with Semantic Knowledge Graphs and LLMs
  Nenad Petrovic , Milorad Tosic
• Challenges in the Convergence of LLMs and Knowledge Graphs for Air Traffic Information Systems: An Empirical Study on Granularity and the Impact of Advanced RAG
  Douglas Silva Teixeira , José Maria Parente de Oliveira , Nauane Linhares do Nascimento

EIKE: Workshop on Explicit and Implicit Knowledge Extraction

• Meanings are like Onions: a Layered Approach to Metaphor Processing
  Silvia Cappa , Anna Sofia Lippolis , Stefano Zoia

Semantic Shields: 2nd International Workshop on Modeling for Cybersecurity

• PerManOnt: Permission Management Ontology for Smart Devices
  S. Vishal , Ayon Chakraborty , P. Sreenivasa Kumar
• Beyond Risk Propagation: A Unified Approach
  Alessandro Mosca , Mattia Fumagalli , Gal Engelberg , Victor D. Corvalan , Dan Klein , Pnina Soffer , Diego Calvanese , Giancarlo Guizzardi
• A Note on Methods for Explainable Malware Analysis
  Martin Homola , Peter Anthony , Iveta Bečková , Ján Kľuka , Ján Mojžiš , Peter Švec , Štefan Balogh , Franco Alberto Cardillo , Franca Debole , Umberto Straccia , Martin Kenyeres , Francesco Giannini , Michelangelo Diligenti , Marco Gori , Tomáš Bisták , Daniel Trizna , Zekeri Adams

SWODCH: Fifth International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage

• Using Omeka S in Cataloguing Stanisław Lem’s Letters (short paper)
  Szymon Piotr Kukulak , Luiz do Valle Miranda , Jakub Gomułka , Krzysztof Kutt , Grzegorz J. Nalepa
• From the Hellenic Peristyle to the Monastic Cloister: An Architectural Legacy Traced Through Ontology
  Matilde Bevilacqua , Irene Di Mauro , Maria Rosaria Stufano Melone
• A Preliminary Investigation on Event Modeling in Music: Performances and Their Reception
  Emilio M. Sanfilippo , Augustin Braud , Richard Freedman , Alessandro Mosca
• Ontological Approaches to Morpho-Semantics in Modern Greek Derivation
  Nikos Vasilogamvrakis , Michalis Sfakakis , Maria Koliopoulou
• Towards a Realism-Based Ontology of Archeology: Artifacts, CIDOC-CRM and BFO
  Fumiaki Toyoshima , Géraldine Delley
• An Etymological Dataset for Nouns and Verbs in the Gallo-Italic Variety Spoken in Nicosia and Sperlinga
  Domenico Cantone , Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro , Cristiano Longo , Salvatore Menza , Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo , Daniele Francesco Santamaria
• Modelling Knowledge for the PAVES-e Project: A Formal Ontology of Cesare Pavese’s Work
  Giuseppe Arena , Salvatore Cristofaro , Giovanni Gafà , Daria Spampinato
• Domain Ontology for Grounded Theory Qualitative Research: Bridging Interpretation and Structure in Digital Humanities
  Edelweis Rohrer , Regina Motz , Juan Pablo Sandín , Emilio Méndez , Facundo Fleitas , Alén Pérez
• Development of the Lem Knowledge Graph: Implementation of LRMoo Ontology (short paper)
  Jakub Gomułka , Luiz do Valle Miranda , Szymon Piotr Kukulak , Krzysztof Kutt , Grzegorz J. Nalepa

The Ninth Image Schema Day

• Eliciting Image Schemas for Urban Digital Twins (short paper)
  Maria Rosaria Stufano Melone , Stefano Borgo , Domenico Camarda , Stefano De Giorgis
• Image Schema Objects: Evaluating Tangible Image Schema Representations as Data Physicalisation Design Tool
  Cordula Baur , Carolin Wienrich , Jörn Hurtienne
• “Let’s collide with the approaching car head-on” Introducing Synthes-IS: extending the Image Schema catalogue with synthetic-data (short paper)
  Guendalina Righetti , Stefano De Giorgis
• Embodied Meaning in Motion: A Videographic Approach to Image Schemas in Film Studies (short paper)
  Maarten Coëgnarts Miklós Kiss
• Script-based Inferences in an Image Schema Story Understander
  Jamie C. Macbeth , Boming Tony Zhang , Sharmin Badhan
• Epistemic Feelings and the Psychological Foundations of Force Fynamics: A Case Study in the Psychoaffective Theory of Image Schemas
  David Romand

OSS: Ontologies for Services and Social-good

• Methodology for managing linguistic uncertainty (short paper)
  Jacqueline Csonka-Peeren
• Ontologies for Simulating Smart Cities: the KnOCS Project
  Chiara Alì , Domenico Cantone , Giorgia Leanza , Mirko Giuseppe Mangano , Alex Mattia , Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo , Daniele Francesco Santamaria
• Representing Money as a Pure Commodity in Ontologies
  Fumiaki Toyoshima , Olivier Massin
• Modeling of Skills, Abilities, Competences, and Related Dispositions in the Occupation Ontology
  Finn Wilson , Matthew A. Diller , Robin McGill , Sam Smith , Jie Zheng , Clarissa Savluchinske Feio Vieira , William D. Duncan , John Beverley , Yongqun He
• From Goals to Impact: Using Ontologies to Align Stakeholder Needs, Program Objectives, and Measurable Outcomes in Social Services for Newcomer Youth
  Daniela Rosu , Mark S. Fox
• Developing an Ontology-based Model for Physiotherapy
  Maria Rosaria Stufano Melone , Stefano Borgo , Claudio Masolo , Fabiana Ballarin , Gianluca Fasano
• Integrating Multi-Survey Data into an Ontological Model of Dental Care-Related Fear and Anxiety
  Elena Milivinti , Finn Wilson , Ram A. N. R. Challa , Olga S. Ensz , Brenda Heaton , Astha Singhal , Michelle Cooper , Jiahang Yu , Emily Sardzinski , Daniel W. McNeil , William D. Duncan , Alexander D. Diehl

PHASES: Workshop on Promoting Healthy Aging through the Semantic Enrichment of Social Sciences

• Groundwork for the Ontology of Curiosity (short paper)
  Regina Hurley
• Towards Healthy Aging through Semantic Enrichment
  John Beverley , Julie C. Bowker , Hollen N. Reischer , Rachel A. Mavrovich , Regina Hurley , Sean Kindya , Sam Smith , Jie Zheng , Yongqun He , Damayanthi Beera , William D. Duncan
• Towards an Ontology-based System to Foster Older Adults’ Mental Health via Indoor Comfort Management
  Daniele Spoladore , Anđela Ðinđić , Walter Terkaj
• Closure Through an Ontological Lens (short paper)
  Noor M. Al-Khaouli , Keilai Angeldekao , Rachel A. Mavrovich
• Formalizing Heuristics: Cognitive Strategies for Decisions Under Constraint
  Timothy W. Coleman , John Bittner

POWER: Perspectival Ontology Workshop on Entities that can be Realized

• Toward a Unified Framework for Realizable Entities: Dispositions, Plans, and Beyond
  Stefan Schulz , Michel Dumontier , Remzi Çelebi , Katerina Serafimova , Catalina Martínez Costa
• Challenged by Vulnerabilities: A Focus on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Conceptualisations, Semantics, and Debates
  Greta Adamo , Max Willis , Alessandro Mosca , Anna Sperotto
• Triggers and Bases: Extending BFO to Represent the Pahl–Beitz Framework for Working Principles
  Ludger Jansen , Dilek Yargan
• Dispositions and Roles of Generically Dependent Entities (short paper)
  Fabian Neuhaus

PLATO: Planning and Ontology Workshop

• T2B2T: The Ontology for Adaptive Agent-Driven Seamless Integration with the Semantic Web
  Carmelo Fabio Longo , Rocco Paolillo , Miguel Ceriani
• About the Unreal
  John Beverley , Jim Logan , Barry Smith
• Using Ontologies for Adaptive Planning and Robust Execution in Robotic Manipulation (short paper)
  Oriol Ruiz-Celada , Víctor Molina , Raúl Suárez , Muhayy Ud Din , Isiah Zaplana , Jan Rosell