Call for Papers (2025)

Call for Papers

Part of the 11th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2025)
Held at the 15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2025) in Catania, Italy (8-12 September 2025).

Submission Deadline: 1 June 2025.

CAOS investigates fundamental cognitive phenomena and concepts across language, psychology, and reasoning, examining how these can be formally and ontologically analyzed in the context of both traditional symbolic AI and contemporary neural approaches. The workshop emphasizes the exploration of connections between cognitive sciences/experimental psychology and ontologies, while also incorporating insights from recent advances in large language models and embodied cognition. This investigation aims to develop robust formal and logical modeling approaches that can capture these relationships effectively. The workshop particularly focuses on how such formalizations and ontological analyses can enhance current AI systems and information architectures, bridging the gap between broad but shallow artificial intelligence and human-like cognitive capabilities.

We welcome submissions addressing the ontological foundations of cognitive building blocks and cognitive capacities, including concept invention, combination, language acquisition, and categorization. Submissions examining the cognitive and epistemological adequacy of ontological modeling in the context of current AI developments are also welcomed.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

  • Ontologies of cognitive phenomena and their relationship to large language models
  • Logic and Cognition in the context of hybrid AI systems
  • Formal representation of cognitive structures/functions/processes (e.g., Conceptual Spaces, Neural-Symbolic Integration)
  • Knowledge Representation and Common-Sense reasoning in the era of Large Language Models
  • Formalization of language, affordances and language acquisition in embodied AI
  • Cognitive development from an ontological perspective
  • Metaphors and analogies: formal representation and implementation
  • Integration of ontologies with large language models for enhanced cognition
  • Knowledge acquisition and categorization in AI and Robotics
  • Concept-based computational creativity, concept invention and concept combination

We welcome researchers from all career stages to participate, work in progress (short papers) are also welcome as the primary goal of the workshop is discussion. All papers must be original and not submitted to, or accepted by, any other workshop, conference or journal. Note that, for inclusion in the JOWO proceedings, short and position papers are required to be at least 5 pages long.

All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and the review process will be managed in a collaborative and transparent manner using the EasyChair System as part of the JOWO organisation. The interdisciplinary nature necessitates an equally mixed program committee (to be announced).

Submissions and Reviews

Abstract for presentation only: 2-3 pages, 10-15 minutes presentation (not included in the proceedings)
Short papers: 6-8 pages, 10-15 minutes presentation 
Full research papers: 10-14 pages, 20-25 minutes presentation 

(Page number includes references, presentations include Q&A.)

Submissions must be sent via Easychair as a single PDF file and should be formatted in CEUR 1-column format. Please refer to this webpage for formatting instructions. Overleaf (latex) template is available here.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fois2025. Please select the track JOWO Workshop – Cognition and OntologieS (CAOS9).


For inclusion in the workshop, at least one of the authors of accepted papers needs to register at JOWO 2025 and participate on-site at CAOS.

All contributions to JOWO workshops will be published in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, compare:

JOWO 2022: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3249/
JOWO 2021: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2969/
JOWO 2020: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2708/
JOWO 2019: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2518/
JOWO 2018: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2205/

Location

CAOS is co-located with JOWO and FOIS held in the beautiful city of Catania, Italy.