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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents (FOCA)
http://www.loa-cnr.it/esslli06/
July 31 - August 4, 2006

organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language
and Information
ESSLLI 2006 http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/
July 31 - August 11, 2006 in Malaga

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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS:

Roberta Ferrario (ferrario at loa-cnr.it)
Nicola Guarino (guarino at loa-cnr.it)
Laurent Prevot (prevotlaurent at gmail.com)

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WORKSHOP PURPOSE:

In recent years lots of efforts have been devoted to formal studies of
human and artificial agent communication. Research advancements have
been achieved along three main lines: (i) agent's internal states and
dynamics, (ii) social interaction and conventional communicative
patterns, (iii) semantics-pragmatics interface - especially in the
dialogue context (i.e. the interplay between the semantic content of
messages and the communicative acts themselves). There is a recent
trend of studies trying to integrate these approaches in many ways.
On the other hand, formal ontology has been consecrated as a good
solution for comparing and integrating information and thus its
application to this specific domain is very promising . More
precisely, an ontological analysis of the fundamental ingredients of
interaction and communication will make explicit the hidden
ontological assumptions underlying all these proposals.
Ontology has also proven to be a very powerful means to address
issues related to the exchange of meaningful communication across
autonomous entities, which can organize and use information
heterogeneously.
The purpose of the workshop is therefore to gather contributions that
(i) take seriously into account the ontological aspects of
communication and interaction and (ii) use formal ontologies for
achieving a better semantic coordination between interacting and
communicating agents.

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WORKSHOP TOPICS

We encourage contributions concerning the two main areas listed below
with a particular attention to explore the interplay between
ontological analysis and its applications in practical cases.

* Ontological aspects of interaction and communication
- Ontological analysis of interaction and communication
- Studies on the structure and coherence of interaction
- Logical models for communicative acts
- Primitives of interaction and communication
- Formal semantics of dialogue

*Semantic coordination through formal ontologies
- Dialogue semantics and formal ontology
- Dynamic ontology sharing
- Ontological primitives for meaning negotiation, ontological
alignment and semantic interoperability
- Ontology evolution through communication
- Concrete problems and experiences in terminological
disambiguation and integration

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SUBMISSION DETAILS:

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract describing
original contributions to the workshop topics. Submissions should
range between 3 and 5 pages.
The following formats are accepted: .doc, .tex, .pdf (please, always
include source files).

Please send your submission electronically to the following email address:

esslli06 at loa-cnr.it

by the deadline listed below. The submissions will be reviewed by
the workshop's programme committee and additional reviewers. The
accepted papers will
appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. The
format for the final version will be .pdf.
A selection of the best papers accepted at the workshop will be
considered for publication in the international journal 'Applied
Ontology' (http://www.applied-ontology.org/).

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WORKSHOP FORMAT:

The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI
participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions
held over five consecutive days in the first week
of ESSLLI. There will be 2 or 3 slots for paper presentation
and discussion per session. On the first day the workshop
organizers will give an introduction to the topic.

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IMPORTANT DATES:

Submissions : March 8, 2006
Notification : April 21, 2006
Full paper deadline: May 1st, 2006
Final programme : June 21, 2006
Workshop Dates : July 31 - August 4, 2006

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WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE: (tentative)

Thomas ADDIS (University of Portsmouth)
http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/addist/tom.html
Nicholas ASHER (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/asher/main.html
John BATEMAN (University of Bremen, Germany)
http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~bateman/
Paolo BOUQUET (University of Trento, Italy) http://dit.unitn.it/~bouquet/
Herbert CLARK (Stanford University, USA)
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~herb/
Marco COLOMBETTI (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
http://www.elet.polimi.it/people/colombet
Scott FARRAR (University of Bremen, Germany)
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~farrar/
Roberta FERRARIO (LOA-ISTC, CNR, Trento, Italy)
http://www.loa-cnr.it/ferrario.html
Aldo GANGEMI (LOA-ISTC, CNR, Roma, Italy)
http://www.loa-cnr.it/gangemi.html
Nicola GUARINO (LOA-ISTC, CNR, Trento, Italy)
http://www.loa-cnr.it/guarino.html
Andreas HERZIG (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France)
http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/LILaC/Pers/Herzig/
Joris HULSTIJN (Utrecht University, the Nehterlands)
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~joris/
Kepa KORTA (Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain)
http://www.sc.ehu.es/ylwkocak/kepa.html
Laurent PREVOT (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
http://www.loa-cnr.it/prevot.html
Matt PURVER (CSLI, Stanford, USA) http://www.stanford.edu/~mpurver/
William RAPAPORT (University of Buffalo, USA)
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/
Johan VAN BENTHEM (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~johan/
Rogier VAN EIJK (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/rogier/
Laure VIEU (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France)
http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/LILaC/Pers/Vieu/

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LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:

All workshop participants including the presenters will be
required to register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for
authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early
student/workshop speaker registration fee. Moreover, a number
of additional fee waiver grants might be made available by
the local organizing committee on a competitive basis and
workshop participants are eligible to apply for those.

There will be no reimbursement for travel costs or accommodation.
Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding
should contact the local organizing committee to ask for the
possibilities of a grant.

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FURTHER INFORMATION:

About the workshop: http://www.loa-cnr.it/esslli06/
About ESSLLI: http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/

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