From gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Thu Apr 9 20:10:37 2015 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 14:10:37 -0400 Subject: [iaoa-general] Ontology Summit 2015 Symposium Message-ID: <5526C09D.8080906@mie.utoronto.ca> The theme of this year's Ontology Summit is Internet of Things: Toward Smart Networked Systems and Societies and over the past three months, we have explored how ontologies can play a significant role in the realization of smart networked systems and societies in the Internet of Things. You are cordially invited to the Symposium Monday April 13 and Tuesday April 14: http://ontolog.cim3.net/OntologySummit/2015/symposium.html * Date: Monday, 13-Apr-2015 * Start Time: 6:00am PDT / 9:00am EDT / 3:00pm CEST / 2:00pm BST / 1300 UTC ** ref: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=04&day=13&year=2015&hour=09&min=00&sec=0&p1=179 World Clock * Expected Call Duration: ~8.0 hours Connection details for remote participation can be found at http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/wiki/OntologySummit2015_Symposium and the main Ontology Summit page at http://ontolog.cim3.net/OntologySummit/2015/ Registration is not required for people who are participating remotely. - Michael Gruninger and Mark Underwood Chairs, Ontology Summit 2015 From gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Sat Apr 11 05:04:52 2015 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 23:04:52 -0400 Subject: [iaoa-general] Summer Institute 2015 Call for Participation: Spatial Ontologies for e-Science Message-ID: <20150410230452.Horde.6OY79edOP6lCDCD7XzxMTw7@central.mie.utoronto.ca> Call for Participation The Vespucci Initiative for the Advancement of Geographic Information Science and IAOA is announcing the 2015 Summer Institute: Spatial Ontologies for e-Science June 21-27, 2015 Bar Harbor, Maine, USA Programme: Location often acts as an integrator in science, bringing together perspectives across multiple disciplines and scales. For example, health scientists increasingly focus on where patients spend their time, pulling a large variety of environmental and social data into their analyses. With big data and e-science, this trend has accelerated and gets increasingly supported through knowledge infrastructures and associated ontologies. Yet, it is often unclear how knowledge about location and other spatial properties should best be captured, and there is only a very limited choice of spatial ontologies. This Vespucci Institute will ask why this is so and why there seems to have been so little progress over the past decade. It will push the frontiers on spatial ontologies for e-science by * identifying the gaps between the spatial ontologies that the e-science community needs and what is currently available from the ontology community; * addressing key gaps through hands-on ontology design on site; * discussing the impact of Linked Open Data on e-science and the role of space in this context; * collecting criteria and techniques for evaluating spatial ontologies in e-science; * broadening the discussion of ontology quality and ontology applications; * learning to separate approaches that work from those that do not; * reviewing the work of relevant standards organizations like W3C and OGC; * seeking insight on what needs to complement location to meet e-science needs (time?, feature?, event?, process? granularity?). Facilitators Peter Fox (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto) Werner Kuhn (University of California, Santa Barbara) Participants from all sectors of e-science, ontology engineering, and geospatial as well as other spatial sciences are invited to interact from June 22 to 26, 2015, in beautiful Bar Harbor, Maine. As always, the Vespucci Institute will challenge the state of the art through lively discussions and hands-on problem solving rather than lengthy presentations. Travel and attendance grants are available Deadline for applications: 15 April 2015 More information, programme and registration on http://www.vespucci.org From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Wed Apr 29 11:33:14 2015 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 11:33:14 +0200 Subject: [iaoa-general] 3rd CfP: Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO), EXTENDED DEADLINE May 10, IJCAI-15, Buenos Aires In-Reply-To: <5540931E.4030202@cnr.it> References: <5540931E.4030202@cnr.it> Message-ID: <5540A55A.5060704@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> [distributed on request by Stefano Borgo] ========================================== Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO-15) * Deadline extended * -- Episode 1: The Argentine Winter -- Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-31, 2015 in conjunction with IJCAI 2015 http://iaoa.org/jowo Invited speakers: - Diego Calvanese (Univ. of Bolzano/Bozen) - Luciano Serafini (FBK, Trento) --- Third Call for Papers --- ========================================== Submission deadline (extended): May 10, 2015 ========================================== This first edition of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO-15) combines four exciting ontology-centered workshops at IJCAI-15. Together with ontology work presented at IJCAI itself, we will transform Buenos Aires for a week into the largest venue for ontology research of the year. JOWO-15 is supported by the International Association for Ontology and its Applications - IAOA. It will feature a series of (shared) invited talks, paper presentations, and discussions spread across four independent full-day workshops run over a period of three days: ================================== Workshop on Formal Ontologies for Artificial Intelligence (FOfAI) ================================== http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/fofai chairs: Stefano Borgo, Oliver Kutz, and Daniele Porello FOfAI aims to establish a venue for researchers in AI with a strong interest in applied ontology. In particular, we aim to foster an interdisciplinary discussion and cross-fertilization among a number of communities by proposing a venue to exchange foundational, methodological, and applicative perspectives. The workshop thus encourages submission of articles on both theoretical, computational, and linguistic issues in the use of ontologies in AI as well as the concrete use of non-trivial ontologies in AI systems and applications. FOfAI is generously sponsored by the Association for Logic, Language and Information - FoLLI. ================================== 9th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO 2015) ================================== http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/kenb/womo2015/ chairs: Kenneth Baclawski, Torsten Hahmann, Pavel Klinov, Adila Krisnadhi This workshop brings together researchers from all subareas of AI and from related disciplines and application domains to discuss latest and current work on theoretical and practical aspects of modularity in ontologies. Topics include modularity as enabling technology for knowledge repositories and collaborative knowledge development environments and as a tool for reducing the complexity of designing and understanding ontologies, and to facilitating ontology verification, reasoning, maintenance and integration. ================================== 1st Workshop on Belief Change and Non-Monotonic Reasoning in Ontologies and Databases ================================== https://ontochange.wordpress.com/ chairs: Eduardo Ferm?, Thomas Meyer and Renata Wassermann This workshop will bring together researchers working in the areas of logic-based ontologies, belief change, and database systems, along with researchers working in relevant areas in non-monotonic reasoning, commonsense reasoning, and paraconsistent reasoning. Hence the workshop will facilitate discussions on the application of existing work in belief change, non-monotonic reasoning, commonsense reasoning, and related areas on the one hand, to logic-based ontologies and databases on the other. ================================== Ontologies and logic programming for query answering ================================== http://ontolp.lsis.org/ chairs: Odile Papini, Marie-Laure Mugnier, Laurent Garcia, Salem Benferhat The aim of this workshop is to bridge knowledge representation and reasoning in artificial intelligence and web of knowledge communities in order to encourage the emergence of new solutions for reasoning with lightweight ontologies. Particular topics include query answering while taking ontologies into account and non-monotonic reasoning for inconsistency handling and exception handling and expressing default negations in ontologies, with a special interest in logic programming for implementations. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission (extended): May 10, 2015 Notification: May 30, 2015 Camera ready: June 15, 2015 Workshop: July, 2015 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please refer to the individual workshops for detailed lists of topics appropriate for each workshop. Submissions can be long papers (up to 8 pages) or short papers (up to 4 pages), formatted using the AAAI style (available from http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php), submitted in PDF format no later than the submission deadline. All submission are handled through Easychair. Use http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo15 for submissions to any of the first three workshops, and select the track that corresponds to the workshop most appropriate for your work. For the last workshop ''Ontologies and logic programming for query answering'', submissions are handled separately through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontolp2015 All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee of the individual workshops. Accepted papers will be made available in the form of a joint workshop proceedings. For additional publication plans check the individual workshops.