International Workshop on Ontologies for Services and Society (OSS2023) at the 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 OSS workshop aims 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, artifacts, 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@mie.utoronto.ca.



*IMPORTANT DATES*
- Submissions Due: April 24th, 2023
- Notifications Due: May 24th, 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, 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, practice, behaviour theory, and cognitive theory.
- Models of stakeholder goals, needs, and 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 modelling, economic and funding models, sustainability, and client agency.
- Cross-disciplinary research in sociology, 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 adopt
inclusive 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, Center for Behaviour Change, University College London, UK