The Call For Papers for the second edition of the Formal Ontology Meets Industry (FOMI) workshop has been published. This year, the workshop will be held in Trento, Italy, on December 14-15.
The list of topics of interest is quite broad; as a member of the Program Committee, I'm specifically interested in the 'ontology evaluation' and 'ontology changes and developments within organizations' areas.

With the application of new methodologies and techniques in the everyday practice and the accessibility of new theoretical results in this area, developing new tools based on more sophisticated frameworks has become a common need. This is an important reason for the increasing interest in the employment of formal ontologies in fields like medicine, engineering, financial and legal systems, and other business practices. In all these fields, a new emerging trend is to evaluate the interdependencies between theories and methods of formal ontology and the activities, processes, and needs of enterprise organizations.

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

• ontology methodologies in business practice;
• ontologies and corporate knowledge;
• ontologies adaptation within organizations;
• formalization of the know-how;
• representation of artifacts and design;
• representation of functionalities;
• representation of knowledge and business processes;
• linguistic representation in organizational knowledge;
• linguistic problems in organizational standard code and codification processes;
• enterprise modeling;
• ontology evaluation;
• ontology effectiveness;
• ontology changes and developments within organizations;
• representation of business services;
• ontologies and electronic catalogs;
• ontologies and e-commerce;
• ontologies and marketing;
• ontologies in the practice of engineering;
• ontologies in the practice of medical sciences;
• ontologies in finance;
• ontologies and e-government.