{"id":602,"date":"2025-04-09T13:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T11:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dmi.unict.it\/fois2025\/?page_id=602"},"modified":"2025-04-09T14:05:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:05:51","slug":"tutorials-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dmi.unict.it\/fois2025\/?page_id=602","title":{"rendered":"Tutorials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Rigid and Variable Embodiment &#8211; Theory and Applications in Formal Ontology<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The theory of Rigid and Variable Embodiments aims to account for how&nbsp;an entity has the parts it does at a time and over time. As such, it&nbsp; provides a powerful framework for understanding how an object persists and its identity across transformation. Over the past&nbsp;decade, several applications of the theory have emerged both in&nbsp;philosophy and applied ontology. However, no systematic introduction&nbsp;or comprehensive presentation of these applications has been provided.<br><br>This tutorial fills that gap by offering the first structured&nbsp; introduction to Rigid and Variable Embodiment for the FOIS&nbsp;community. Participants will gain a solid understanding of the&nbsp;theory, its formal foundations, and its relevance to applied&nbsp;ontology in general.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Specifically, by combining theoretical insights with practical applications, this tutorial is ideal for FOIS 2025 attendees seeking to deepen their understanding of the theory of rigid and variable&nbsp;embodiment and, more generally, of ontological modelling in a&nbsp; variety of domains \u2014 such as parthood, material constitution,&nbsp; persistence, the nature of groups and collective, and occurrences.&nbsp; Therefore, the tutorial will be broadly relevant to scholars in&nbsp; formal ontology, metaphysics and applied ontology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stefano Borgo &#8211; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Salvatore Florio -University of Oslo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u00d8ystein Linnebo &#8211; University of Oslo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guendalina Righetti &#8211; University of Oslo (contact person)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Riccardo Baratella &#8211; University of Genoa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Methodologies and Tools for Virtual Knowledge Graph Design<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This tutorial addresses a significant challenge in complex&nbsp;data-intensive tasks: the coherent integration and access to&nbsp;heterogeneous legacy data sources through Virtual Knowledge Graphs&nbsp;(VKGs). FOIS participants will find the topic particularly&nbsp;attractive as VKGs provide, via declarative mappings and an&nbsp;ontology, a bridge between legacy data sources and real-world data&nbsp;analytics and machine learning applications.&nbsp; As such, they&nbsp; emphasize practical ontology usage beyond traditional semantic&nbsp;tasks.&nbsp; The tutorial is novel because it specifically targets the&nbsp;critical yet under-explored aspect of VKG mapping layer design, a&nbsp; bottleneck currently lacking established methodologies and tooling&nbsp; support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Participants will explore a structured approach to VKG mapping&nbsp;design through a comprehensive catalog of mapping patterns reflecting best practices. Attendees will also gain hands-on&nbsp; experience with innovative tools, both open-source ones and&nbsp; developed by Ontopic, designed to automate and simplify the creation&nbsp;and refinement of VKG solutions. Key learning outcomes include an in-depth understanding of VKG&nbsp; fundamentals, practical skills in mapping pattern application,&nbsp; experience with state-of-the-art VKG tooling, and enhanced&nbsp; capabilities in addressing real-world data access challenges.&nbsp; This&nbsp; tutorial promises to equip participants with both theoretical&nbsp; insights and practical methodologies essential for advancing their&nbsp;<br>data-intensive ontology-driven projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Diego Calvanese &#8211; Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ontopic&nbsp;s.r.l., Bolzano, Italy (contact person)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Benjamin Cogrel &#8211; Ontopic s.r.l., Bolzano, Italy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Davide Lanti &#8211; Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bridging Perception and Meaning: Ontological Foundations for&nbsp;Cognitive Robotics Systems<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This tutorial presents a modular framework for transforming raw&nbsp;visual data into structured knowledge representations, integrating&nbsp; formal ontological principles with computer vision pipelines and&nbsp;large language models. Participants will explore how image schemas&nbsp;and embodied cognition patterns enhance autonomous agents\u2019&nbsp; reasoning, bridging the gap between statistical visual analysis and&nbsp; symbolic knowledge representation. The hands-on session will&nbsp; demonstrate knowledge graph construction, event segmentation, and&nbsp; participant identification, ensuring ontological consistency while&nbsp;leveraging large language models for commonsense knowledge&nbsp; enrichment. The tutorial is designed for researchers in applied&nbsp; ontology, knowledge extraction, and cognitive robotics, it requires&nbsp; no prerequisites, with computational resources provided as jupyter&nbsp;notebooks or Google Colab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stefano De Giorgis &#8211; National Research Council, Italy (contact person)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mihai Pomarlan &#8211; University of Bremen, Germany<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Nikolaos Tsiogkas &#8211; KU Leuven, Belgium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rigid and Variable Embodiment &#8211; Theory and Applications in Formal Ontology The theory of Rigid and Variable Embodiments aims to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-602","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmi.unict.it\/fois2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmi.unict.it\/fois2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmi.unict.it\/fois2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmi.unict.it\/fois2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmi.unict.it\/fois2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmi.unict.it\/fois2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmi.unict.it\/fois2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmi.unict.it\/fois2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}