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FOMI 2008: extended deadline.
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The deadline for submissions has been extended to January 18th, 2008.
The online submission system for FOMI 2008 is available from the
conference webpage:

  http://www.fomi2008.di.unito.it/submissions.html

The Workshop Proceedings, including all accepted papers, will be
published by IOS Press.


Daniele Radicioni,
on behalf of the Organizing Committee




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  FOMI 2008 - 3rd Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry
               5-6 June, 2008, Torino, Italy

                      CALL FOR PAPERS


Conference web site: http://www.fomi2008.di.unito.it

Proceedings published by IOS Press, http://www.iospress.nl/

This event is jointly organized by:
       - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento
       - University of Torino
       - University of Verona


CONFERENCE AIMS

FOMI is an international forum where academic researchers and
industrial practitioners meet to analyze and discuss issues
related to methods, theories, tools and applications based on
formal ontologies.

There is today wide agreement that knowledge modeling and the
semantic dimension of information plays an increasingly
central role in networked economy: semantic-based
applications are relevant in distributed systems such as
networked organizations, organizational networks, and in
distributed knowledge management. These knowledge models in
industry 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.

New tools and applications have been and are being developed
in diverse application fields, ranging from business to
medicine, from engineering to finance, from law to
electronics. All these systems have exploited the theoretical
results and the practical experience of previous work. In all
cases, it has been shown that formal ontologies play a
central role in describing in a common and understandable way
the logical and practical features of the
application domain.

The success of the methodologies associated with knowledge
modeling and ontologies led to increased need of a comparison
between different approaches and results, with the aim of
evaluating the interdependencies between theories and methods
of formal ontology and the activities, processes, and needs
of enterprise organizations.

The FOMI 08 Workshop aims to advance in this direction by
bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in
ontology application, paying particular attention to the
topics listed below.


CONFERENCE TOPICS

*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 and business:*
  - ontology and ontological methodologies in business;
  - adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations;
  - ontology effectiveness and evaluation in business

*ontology and enterprise:*
  - ontology-driven enterprise modeling;
  - ontology development and change within organizations;
  - ontology-driven representation of products, services,
    functionalities,
design, processes;

*ontology and enterprise knowledge:*
  - ontologies for the know-how;
  - ontologies for corporate knowledge;

*ontology in practice:*
  - ontologies for electronic catalogs, e-commerce, e-government;
  - ontologies for marketing;
  - ontologies for finance;
  - ontologies for engineering;
  - ontologies for medical sciences;

*ontology and linguistics:*
  - ontology-driven linguistic representation in organization
    knowledge;
  - linguistic problems in standards and in codification
    processes;
  - ontologies and multilingualism in business and
    organizations


PROGRAMME

The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral
presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels.
Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the
basis of technical quality, relevance of the described
experiences (depending on the type of submission), and
clarity of the presentation for the workshop. In particular,
we insist that papers should be written for a wide audience.
Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, and
published as proceedings.


PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will appear in the Workshop Proceedings,
published by IOS Press and distributed to participants.
Following the past edition, a selection of the best papers
accepted at the workshop will be considered for publication
in the international journal "Applied Ontology".


SUBMISSIONS AND DATES

* Format
   - The maximal paper length is 10 pages, excluding title
     page and bibliography.
   - Papers must be submitted in PDF format
   - Instructions and tools about the submissions can be found
     at the "IOS Press author templates" page,
     http://www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html.

* Deadlines:
   - Paper Submission: January 18, 2008
   - Acceptance Notification: March 3, 2008
   - Camera Ready: March 31, 2008


CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

- Bill Andersen, Ontology Works, USA
- Guido Boella, University of Torino, Italy
- Stefano Borgo, (co-chair), Laboratory for Applied Ontology,
   CNR, Trento, Italy
- Peter Clark, Knowledge Systems, Boeing Maths and Computing
   Technology, USA
- Matteo Cristani, University of Verona, Italy
- Roberta Cuel, University of Trento, Italy
- Roberta Ferrario, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR,
   Trento, Italy
- Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada
- Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR,
   Trento, Italy
- Gilles Kassel, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, France
- Paulo Leitao, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e de Gestao,
   Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, Portugal
- Leonardo Lesmo (co-chair), University of Torino, Italy
- Riichiro Mizoguchi, The Institute of Scientific and
   Industrial Research, Osaka University
- Jorge Posada, VICOMTech, Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain
- Chris Partridge, 42 Objects Limited, BORO Centre Limited,
   Brunel University, UK
- York Sure, Institut AIFB, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany
- Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
- Matthew West, Shell International Petroleum Company
   Limited, UK
- Radboud G.F. Winkels, University of Amsterdam, The
   Netherlands



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