9th International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling

Schedule

11:30 - 13:00: Introduction and Research Paper Presentations

• Introduction to the Workshop (15 minutes)

• euFAIR: a digital tool for assessing the FAIR principles (25 minutes)
  Matteo Lia, Davide Damiano Colella, Antonella Longo and Marco Zappatore
  From the Workshop on 3rd Workshop on Conceptual Modeling, Ontologies and (Meta)data Management for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) Data (CMOMM4FAIR)

• Towards Semantics for Abstractions in Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling (25 minutes)
  Elena Romanenko, Oliver Kutz, Diego Calvanese and Giancarlo Guizzardi

• Misalignments of Social and Numerical Identity - an Ontological Analysis (25 minutes)
  Birger Andersson, Maria Bergholtz and Paul Johannesson

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:30: Research Paper Presentations

• Using an Ontology for Defining Semantics of Fractal Enterprise Model (25 minutes)
  Ilia Bider and Erik Perjons

• One Model to Rule Them All A demonstration of ontology-driven minimum viable product development for a local tourism platform
  (25 minutes)
  Thomas Derave, Frederik Gailly, Tiago Princes Sales and Geert Poels

• Enhancing Requirement-Information Mapping for Sustainable Buildings: Introducing the SFIR Ontology (15 minutes)
  Karim Farghaly and Kell Johnes

• On the use of ChatGPT for classifying domain terms according to upper ontologies (25 minutes)
  Fabrício Rodrigues, Alcides Lopes, Nicolau Santos, Luan Garcia, Joel Carbonera and Mara Abel

15:30 - 16:00 Break

16:00 - 17:30 Keynote by Nicola Guarino (2023 Peter P. Chen Awardee)

Theme

The International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling (OntoCom) is an academic workshop that focuses on the practical and formal application of ontologies to conceptual modeling. 

The importance of conceptual modeling has grown over the years and it is now common to find examples of conceptual models being developed and used in a range of diverse disciplines not related to computing including, for example, biology, business, construction and engineering. Among the reasons for this disciplinary expansion is also the increasing digitalisation of all aspects of modern life as well as the increased complexity that such digitalisation entails in terms of emerging needs and requirements. The natural consequence is a proliferation of conceptual models of multiple real-world domains which sooner or later require data and systems to interoperate and/or integrate. In this emerging scenario ontology-driven conceptual modeling becomes even more fundamental to modern life due to its intrinsic ability to represent reality in a theoretically and semantically consistent manner. Foundational (or upper ontologies) have the potential to resolve the difficult problems that derive from a lack of a consistent and sound ontological theory. The benefits that can derive from the application of a foundational ontology include improved mapping to the real world domain, increased level of communication and understanding among stakeholders, model reuse, semantic integration and interoperability and increased overall efficiency and effectiveness of information systems development and evolution. The application of foundational ontologies can also assist in overcoming the inscrutable nature of most mainstream artificial intelligence methods (i.e. neural networks and machine learning). 

We intend to bring together academics, researchers and practitioners (with a background in IS engineering and/or ontology development) in order to develop an agenda of future collaborations that combine research and industrial expertise.

Contributions in the form of research, research-in-progress papers and practitioner reports are welcome.  Papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee.

Topics

Topics for contributions include, but are not limited to:

• What is the relation between Ontological Semantics, Formal Semantics, Abstract and Concrete Syntax for Visual Conceptual Modeling Languages?

• What kind of Logical, Ontological and Epistemological Foundations are needed for Conceptual Modeling?

• How can fundamental theoretical research on Ontological Foundations for Conceptual

• Modeling and Empirical Research fit together?

• How can Formal Ontological Theories be used for the Analysis and Design of Conceptual Modeling languages (including Enterprise Modeling and Domain-Specific Modeling languages)?

• How researchers and practitioners in other domains not related to computer science and information systems (such as Bioinformatics) are using Ontologies?

• Is there a common notion of “Ontology” shared in all these domains, or are we including different notions under the same term (Ontology)?

• How does ontology inform the process of gathering requirements?

• How does ontology support architecture development directly from requirements specifications?

• How does ontology help in software design and its mapping to the architecture specification?

• How can ontologies be used as run-time artefacts or to inform the design of run-time artefacts?

• What is the role of ontology reasoning in the software engineering process?

• What is the role of ontology in model-driven development?

• How can ontology drive the development of service software?

• What are the methodological issues for Ontology-Driven CM and ISE?

• How can problems of semantic mismatch between traditional IS modeling paradigms, approaches, techniques, etc. and ontological modeling be overcome?

• How can ontology help in the design of development/modeling/programming languages?

• How can ontology enhance artificial intelligence?

Important Dates

• Workshop paper submission: 09 August 2023

• Workshop paper notification: 04 September 2023

• Workshop paper camera-ready: 18 September 2023

Submission

The workshop welcomes submissions of full and short papers. Submissions should present original works not currently under review or published elsewhere.

• Regular: 10 pages max (research papers)

• Short: 6 pages max (research-in-progress papers and practitioner reports)

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Submissions must use the Springer LNCS format and must be in English. Papers should be submitted in PDF format using the EasyChair online submission system. Authors should consult Springer's authors' guidelines and use LNCS proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers.

Program Committee

• Mike Bennett (Hypercube, UK)

• Michael Dzandu (University of Westminster, UK)

• Pierre Grenon (National Center for Ontological Research, USA)

• Paul Johannesson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

• Thomas Moser (St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria)

• Italo Oliveira (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)

• Jeffrey Parsons (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)

• Geert Poels (Ghent University, Belgium)

• Tiago Prince Sales (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

• Emilio M. Sanfilippo (ISTC-CNR Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Italy)

• Pnina Soffer (University of Haifa, Israel)

• Marzieh Talebpour (University of Westminster, UK)

• Karsten Tolle (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)

Organizers

• Sergio de Cesare (University of Westminster, UK)

• Frederik Gailly (Ghent University, Belgium)

• Giancarlo Guizzardi (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

• Chris Partridge (University of Westminster, UK and BORO Solutions, UK)

• Oscar Pastor (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)

For any queries please email Sergio de Cesare (s.decesare@westminster.ac.uk)