[AISWorld] CFP: 2nd call Workshop on Ontologies for Services and Society (OSS2022) @ FOIS 2023

[Daniela Rosu]

  — Apologies for cross-posting —

International Workshop on Ontologies for Services and Society  
(OSS2023) Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) 2023.
The workshop will be held on July 17-20, 2023, in Sherbrooke, Quebec,  
Canada in conjunction with FOIS 2023. https://csse.utoronto.ca/oss2023


*WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIM*
Semantic Technologies provide a formal way to represent knowledge in  
ways that are interpretable by computers and a related technology  
stack to store, integrate and query information semantically.

The purpose of the OSS workshop is to foster communication and  
strengthen interdisciplinary work at the intersection of semantic  
technologies and social services. We invite researchers from the  
Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web, Machine Learning, and Social  
Science communities to submit theoretical contributions, novel  
algorithms, artefacts, and tools related to social services. We  
welcome reports from Social Work practitioners on their experiences  
using semantic-enabled technologies, best practices, and insights.

For additional information, please contact bartg at mie.utoronto.c.

*IMPORTANT DATES*
  - Submissions Due:    May 14th, 2023 (extended)
  - Notifications Due:  May 31st, 2023
  - Camera Ready:       beginning of June, 2023
  - Workshop: July 17-20, 2023


*TOPICS OF INTEREST*
We welcome submissions from researchers and practitioners working at  
the intersection of semantic technologies and social services, and  
social service practitioners developing ontological artifacts.

- New ontologies and Semantic Data Models for Social Services
- Ontology extension for Societal Services (e.g. DOLCE, SUMO, FOAF,  
GoodRelations)
- Knowledge Acquisition including ontology learning, natural language  
processing, and service plan extraction and optimization.
- Knowledge Management
- Semantic Data Integration
- Knowledge-based Decision Support Systems, such as recommender  
systems and information retrieval.
- Service governance, including trust, cooperation, and competition.
- Human Resource related ontologies.
- System Assessment and Analysis, including policy evaluation,  
economic analysis,  impact models, Social Return on Investment (SROI)
- Service client outcome assessment, including risk assessment and  
conflict resolution.
- Industry Applications and Case-studies, including Linked Data  
Applications, Semantic Web, and Knowledge Graphs, lessons learned and  
best practices.
- Governance of data models for societal data sets.
- Social Change Theory, including ontology of practitioner paradigms,  
educational material, and practice, behavior theory, cognitive theory.
- Models of stakeholder goals, needs, roles (e.g.  
belief-desires-intentions models, UNSDG Goals , service providers and  
funders, socioeconomic determinants)
- Models of society and human services, including service  
provisioning, process modeling, economic and funding models,  
sustainability, and client agency.
- Cross-disciplinary research in sociology and service provisioning  
and related areas, including public services, public health,  
government services, urban planning, and the judicial system.

*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*
- Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions  
in English. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages for regular  
papers, 6 pages for early career and position papers, and 3 pages for  
posters and demos.
- All papers must be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format following  
the CEUR-WS single column formatting guidelines.
- The direct template download for Latex and MS Word is available  
here: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
- There is also an Overleaf Template available here:  
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw
- Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system.
- Papers accepted at ICBO workshops will be published in a volume of  
CEUR workshop proceedings IAOA series.

Please make your submission using EasyChair  
https://easychair.org/conferences/conference_info.cgi?a=30415720.

Diversity and inclusion statement. We kindly ask authors to  
adoptinclusive language in their papers and presentations  
(https://dbdni.github.io/pages/inclusivewriting.html and  
https://dbdni.github.io/pages/inclusivetalks.html), and all  
participants to adopt a proper code of conduct  
(https://dbdni.github.io/pages/codeofconduct.html).


*ORGANISING COMMITTEE*
- Bart Gajderowicz, Centre for Social Services Engineering, University  
of Toronto, Canada
- Daniela Rosu, Centre for Social Services Engineering, University of  
Toronto, Canada
- Janna Hastings, School of Medicine, University of St. Gallen, UK