Call for Papers

We invite submissions to the Workshop On Ontologies for the Disaster Domain (WOODD) to be held at The Joint Ontology WOrkshops (JOWO) that will take place at Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden, from August 15 to 19, 2022. The workshop will mainly consist of paper presentations, and interactive breakout discussion sessions.

Topics:

Integrated management of heterogeneous hazard- and disaster-related datasets is key to efficient and effective preparation, and response to disasters requires discussing some the crucial domain and formal aspects that need to be addressed during modeling. We are soliciting topics and discussion from both a domain centric direction, as well as through discussion on the underlying formal mechanisms. This includes:

1) Ontologies that focus on modeling different aspects of the domain (e.g. phases of disaster management life cycle, observational data, spatial-temporal views, such as point, area, or trajectory phenomenon)

2) Ontologies that model causal chains (e.g. for compounding disasters and disaster impacts)

3) Construction and annotation of domain taxonomies or vocabularies using machine learning and other artificial intelligence technologies

4) Ontology integration and ontology alignment in the hazard-disaster domain

5) Ontology modularity in the hazard-disaster domain

6) Ontologies and disaster domain knowledge graphs

Submissions are particularly welcome that address aspects of this theme, but submissions outside of the theme, but maintain the core idea of the workshop are also welcome.

Important Dates:

  • Papers submissions: June 7th, 2022
  • Papers notifications: July 15th, 2022
  • Camera-ready version submissions: August 5th, 2022
  • JOWO: August 15-19th

Submissions:

We encourage three types of contributions:

  • Full research paper: Submitted papers must not exceed 14 pages excluding the bibliography. Please, note that the minimum length is 10 pages.
  • Short paper: Submitted papers must not exceed 6 pages excluding the bibliography. Please, note that the minimum length is 5 pages (including the bibliography).
  • Extended abstracts (presentation only) should be 2-4 pages long including the bibliography. Please, note that extended abstracts will not be included in the CEUR proceedings.

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.

The submission link is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2022 (during submission please choose the right workshop “track”)

Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format in compliance with the new 1-column CEUR-ART Style. Word and Latex templates can be found at https://ceurws.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/ceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-style/

All contributions to JOWO workshops (full and short papers) will be published in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, compare:

JOWO 2021: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2969/

JOWO 2020: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2708/

JOWO 2019: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2518/