[Cfp] KODeP workshop @ JOWO + FOIS 2018

[Stefano Borgo]

**Ontology for Heterogeneous Knowledge in Design and Planning**
https://kodepjowo.wordpress.com/
Cape Town, South Africa, 19-21 September 2018.

Part of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2018),
a pool of satellite events held at the 10th International Conference on 
Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2018).

Submission deadline: June 25, 2018


The aim of KODeP is to explore the connections between applied ontology 
and the theory-in-action (Schon, 1983; Gergen, Zielke, 2006; Dick, et 
al. 2009) space of design (e.g. design theory) and planning (e.g. 
multi-agent planning, organizational theory).The workshop focuses on the 
fields of architecture and engineering where applied ontology 
methodologies can help to develop a cognitive framework for the 
theory-in-action approach by disambiguating the terminology and allowing 
the principled management of complex knowledge.
Ontology, understood as the general theory of types of entities and 
relations making up a domain of inquiry, provides a solid foundation for 
modeling and using heterogeneous knowledge. Our purpose is to solicit 
works that elicit and highlight the richness of possibilities that the 
ontological approach makes accessible in design and in planning processes.
In the last few years a variety of research results have outlined that 
design ontology (architecture, engineering) and space ontology 
(environment, places and regions as life settlements) are structurally 
and organizationally linked. In this vein, efforts to develop sound 
operational ontologies in these domains (e.g. individual and/or social, 
artificial and/or natural) should be compared and integrated to produce 
effective and multi-perspective theory-in-action frames.


*Topics*

Important relations arise between foundational and applied ontologies 
and the above cited knowledge domains.
Among the other issues relevant to the FOIS conference the workshop pays 
attention to the following ones:

-   the relation between natural objects/artifacts in dealing with 
complex environmental systems; space and time interaction in dealing 
with the making of a city or of a design object;
-   the relation among cognition, natural and/or formal language, and 
semantics in complex agent-based systems like environmental/urban systems;
-   ontology of mental agency as support to decision processes in design 
and planning;
-   knowledge management; ontology in design;
-   ontologies in specific science or professional domains;
-   ontologies in architecture, engineering, and for the general 
organization of actual space.

*Information*

Please submit your paper through easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2018

Papers are intended to be at least five pages long (with around 2500 
characters, or 380-400 words, per page)

All submissions must be in pdf format and must follow the IOS Press FOIS 
formatting guidelines, available at https://goo.gl/qkTpT7.

*Important dates*

June 25, 2018 –  submission deadline for papers
July 20, 2018 – acceptance notification to authors
August 15, 2018 – camera ready versions due


The organizers encourage the submission of interdisciplinary research

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Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC CNR
Trento, Italy