FOIS 2010 Call for Posters

[Stefano Borgo]

The poster session at FOIS 2010 is targeted at young and up-coming researchers. If you do not fall into that category yourself, please forward the Call for Posters to anyone you know who does, and who may be interested.
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                        FOIS 2010                  
           Sixth International Conference on      
         Formal Ontology in Information Systems   
                (co-located with KR 2010)

             http://fois2010.mie.utoronto.ca       


            C A L L    F O R    P O S T E R S       



CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION

The FOIS conference series began with the first meeting in Trento, Italy, in June 1998, which was followed by meetings in 2001, 2004, 2006, and 2008. The sixth FOIS conference will be held in Toronto, Canada, during 11-14 May 2010, and we are now calling for posters to be considered for presentation at the poster session to be held during the conference. 

THE POSTER SESSION 

The poster session at FOIS 2010 will give young scientists the opportunity to present their current work related to formal ontology in information systems and discuss their approach, results, problems and methods with the other participants of the conference. The selection of poster contributions will pay specific attention to their relevance to the topics of FOIS 2010. The accepted posters will be published electronically and made available via the conference web page.

As this poster session is particularly intended to provide an opportunity for young ontologists to disseminate, and obtain feedback on, their work, submission is restricted to researchers who are either working towards a postgraduate qualification (masters or Ph.D.), or have obtained such a qualification within the last two years. Each accepted poster will be assigned a "tutor" from the FOIS programme committee, who will provide discussion and feedback to the author at the poster session.

For details on the scope of the conference, please see the main Call for Papers at http://fois2010.mie.utoronto.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=5.

Important Dates and Further Information
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*  Submission deadline: February 24th
*  Notification of Acceptance: March 26th, 2010
*  Submission of final posters: April 20th, 2010
*  Electronic publication of posters: May 6th, 2010
*  Conference: May 11th-14th, 2010

Submission should consist of (1) an electronic copy of the poster itself (for printing at A2 size), preferably in PDF format, and (2) a covering letter giving the author's contact details and a statement of current status, including year of actual or expected graduation at PhD or masters level.

All submissions should be mailed to fois08 at easychair.org, with the subject line "FOIS poster".