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CALL FOR PAPERS
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(with apologies for cross-posting) (02)
Workshop on Ontological Modelling of Socio-Technical Systems @ FOIS 2014
September 22, 2014, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (03)
http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/OMSS14
http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br/p/accepted-workshops.html#OMSS
Email: OMSS14@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (04)
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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João-Paulo Almeida (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil) (06)
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DEFINITION AND SCOPE
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Socio-Technical Systems (STS) are complex systems that embed human and
artificial agents, material and institutional artefacts and resources,
in which agents' behaviour and practices are partly constrained by
norms. The design and the investigation of the property of STS is a
challenging topic for a number of communities such as organisation
sciences, multiagent systems, AI, sociology, economics, just to name a
few. As a guiding example of STS, one can imagine an airport in which
human agents playing different roles, as operators, policemen, crew,
passengers... are constrained by institutional and social norms and
interact with each other and with artificial agents such as sensors,
surveillance cameras, monitors, biometric devices, visual scanners for
the luggage, automated air traffic control system, etc.
The contribution of ontologies to the understanding, modelling,
designing of STS is crucial, as their role is to provide a clear and
unambiguous interpretation of the language used to represent the
heterogeneous pieces of information that are intertwined in STS.
Moreover, since STS involve both human and artificial agents, what is
needed is a means of representation that is fairly understandable by
humans and implementable in machines. Ontologies that are built on a
solid foundational analysis are aimed at making explicit hidden
assumptions and thus enhance understanding. On the other hand, their
expression in a formal language favour implementability. STS pose a
number of challenges to ontological modelling at various levels. From
a foundational point of view, the very concept of system, of
human-machine interaction, of artefact, of norm-based behaviour demand
an ontologically aware approach that integrates these complex concepts
and knowledge of the environment. From an applied perspective, we need
clever tools to organise the complex layers of information (normative,
technical, social, behavioural) involved in STS and describe their
mutual entanglement.
In particular, due to the heterogenous nature of the system, very
expressive languages seem to be needed in order to treat such type of
information; however, expressive languages usually come with the price
of complexity, and pose serious challenges to implementation.
The aim of this workshop is to gather a number of contributions that
focus on theoretical aspects of the ontological modelling of STS as
well as on the application of ontologies to actual STS (such as
airports, hospitals, service systems and complex organisations in
general). (08)
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics include, but are not limited to: (010)
* Foundational investigation about STS (ontological analysis of
concepts of system, interaction, artefacts, roles, functions,
organisations...).
* Methodological investigations about modelling STS.
* Representing and reasoning about norms in STS.
* Representing and reasoning about interaction in STS. Representing
and reasoning about organisations.
* Modelling institutional and technical artefacts.
* Modelling crisis, adaptivity and resilience of STS.
* Modelling rules in STS.
* Expressivity of ontologies.
* Ontology for multi-agent systems.
* Modelling disagreement and conflict in STS.
* Interfacing sensor information and symbolic information (e.g.
vision-semantics...)
* Interdisciplinary approaches to STS: ontologies in computer vision,
organization sciences, law, economics etc.)
* Ontology learning for adaptive STS. (011)
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Submission Deadline: May 22, 2014
Notification: June 22, 2014
Camera-ready papers: July 22, 2014
Workshop Date: September, 22, 2014 (013)
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Different kinds of contributions are foreseen: full papers,
short/position papers and project outlines.
All contributions must be formatted according to IOS Press style (see
http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/).
Full papers should not exceed 12 pages in length, while short/position papers
and project outlines should not exceed 6 pages. Moreover, papers should be
submitted non-anonymously and be prepared in PDF
format. (015)
The Easychair submission page can be found at: (016)
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=omss14 (017)
The authors of accepted papers are also welcome to submit extended
versions to the the international journal Applied Ontology (IOS
Press), to be considered for publication either as regular articles or
included in a special issue on “Ontology of Socio-Techincal Systems”,
depending on the number of high quality articles that will be received. (018)
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WORKSHOP ORGANISATION
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Workshop Chairs: (020)
Roberta Ferrario (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
Daniele Porello (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) (021)
Program Committee (to be completed): (022)
Stefano Borgo (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
Emanuele Bottazzi (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
Massimiliano Carrara (University of Padova, Italy)
Marco Cristani (University of Verona, Italy)
Fabiano Dalpiaz (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil)
Claudio Masolo (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
Alessandro Oltramari (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Renata Silva Souza Guizzardi (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil)
Nicolas Troquard (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
Gerd Wagner (Brandenburg University of Technology,
Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany)
Hans Weigand (Tilburg University, the Netherlands) (023)
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