Deadline Extension: Apr 25 - FOIS 2016 Satellite Activities (ECS / Ontology Competition / Demonstrations Track)

[Frank Loebe]

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                    9th International Conference on
                Formal Ontology in Information Systems
                             - FOIS 2016 -
          July 6-9, 2016, University of Savoie, Annecy, France

             DEADLINE EXTENSIONS FOR SATELLITE ACTIVITIES

                    * Early Career Symposium (ECS)
                    * Formal Ontology Competition
                    * Demonstrations Track

  [1] website with ALL DETAILS
      http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/index.php?n=Main.SatelliteActivities

  [2] SUBMIT via FOIS 2016 in EasyChair (selecting the track there)
      https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2016


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   EXTENDED DEADLINES
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   For all satellite activities, these new submission deadlines apply:

   * paper submission:    Apr 25, 2016  (Monday)    <-- !! strict !!
   * notification:        May 12, 2016  (Thursday)
   * final versions:      May 31, 2016  (Tuesday)


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           Please note KEY INFORMATION subsequently. Further
           information with all details is available at [1].


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   EARLY CAREER SYMPOSIUM
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   The ECS will be held as a poster session, opened by lightning talks.
   Students at the Master's and Doctoral levels as well as Postdocs are
   invited to submit:
   (1) a two-page description of their research project  and
   (2) a current CV.

   Please submit in PDF format and in accordance with the template [3].

   Contact: [4] ecsfois16 at gmail.com


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   FORMAL ONTOLOGY COMPETITION
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   The FOIS 2016 Ontology Competition is intended to recognize
   high-quality ontologies and to encourage the spread of best
   practices in the ontology community.

   The topic of the 2016 Ontology Competition is
   "Representing Change in Ontologies". There are no
   restrictions on the subject matter of the ontology.

   Details about the competition can be found at
   [5] 
http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/index.php?n=Main.SatelliteActivities#competition 
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   Contact: [6] fois2016.competition at gmail.com


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   DEMONSTRATIONS TRACK
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   The FOIS 2016 Demo session is designed to provide an exciting and
   highly interactive way to demonstrate ontology research.

   Submissions of at most 5 pages in accordance with IOS Press
   formatting guidelines [7] should specify:

   * What is the research background and application context of the
     demonstration?
   * What exactly will be demonstrated? What exactly will a visitor of
     the demonstration learn?
   * For whom is it most interesting / useful?
   * What are the key technologies used and what are the technical
     challenges addressed?
   * How does the demonstrated system, application or infrastructure
     relate to pre-existing work and why is it a novel showcase in
     ontology research?

   Contact: [8] fois2016.demo at gmail.com


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   REVIEW AND PUBLICATION
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   Submissions to any of the above satellite activities will be
   reviewed by selected members of the FOIS 2016 Program Committee.
   All accepted submissions will be published in a joint
   CEUR proceedings volume (ISSN 1613-0073, DBLP-indexed).



  LINKS:

  [1] website with detailed information
      http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/index.php?n=Main.SatelliteActivities

  [2] submit via FOIS 2016 in EasyChair (select corresponding track)
      https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2016

  [3] template for ECS submissions
      http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/fois16-ecs/ECS_submission_template.zip

  [4] contact for ECS
      ecsfois16 at gmail.com

  [5] Formal Ontology Competition details
 
http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/index.php?n=Main.SatelliteActivities#competition

  [6] contact for Formal Ontology Competition
      fois2016.competition at gmail.com

  [7] IOS Press formatting guidelines
 
http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/

  [8] contact for FOIS 2016 Demonstrations Track
      fois2016.demo at gmail.com

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