Program

CAOS is scheduled for September 8, 2025, at the Department of Human Sciences at the University of Catania. For more details, please see the JOWO webpage.

Ontology Foundation and Open Science

9.30-10.00:Francesco Antonio Zaccarini and Claudio Masolo, Coordination, Semantics and Ontologies

10.00-10.30: C. Maria Keet and Zubeida Khan, Characterising Competency Questions for Ontologies

10.30-11.00: Maria Rosaria Stufano Melone, Gianluca Fasano, Stefano Borgo, Claudio Masolo and Fabiana Ballarin, Protecting medical data and sustaining open science: a suggestion from the experience of two project teams

Applied Ontology and Knowledge Extraction

11.30-12.00: Luca Biccheri and Roberta Ferrario, Beyond Copies: Digital Twins as Information Artefacts

12.00-12.30: Dilek Yargan and Ludger Jansen, Representing the Conceptual Design Process in Engineering using IAO and OBI

12.30-13.00:  Hannah An and Lenhart Schubert, Large Language Models as a Tool for Mining Object Knowledge

Biases, Uncertainty, Exceptions

14:30-15.00: A Holistic Ontological Account of the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH): Revisiting Expertise and Intuition in Intelligence Analysis

15.00-15.30: John Bittner, John Beverley and Timothy Coleman, Shadow to Referents

15.30-16.00: Gabriele Sacco, Loris Bozzato, Michael Gruninger and Oliver Kutz, Non-Monotonic Generalisation of an Ontology

Memory and Cognition

16.30-17.00: Olivia Hobai, Intentional Patterns in Cognitive Phenomena

17.00-17.30: Soline Felice, Cassia Trojahn and Frank Arnould, Towards a Semantic Representation of Memory Entities

17.30-18.00: Maria Hedblom, An Argumentation for Embodied Plant Cognition Inspired by Animal Cognition