From gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Wed Feb 11 17:45:42 2015 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:45:42 -0500 Subject: [iaoa-general] Ontology Summit Track C session on Decision Making in Different Domains Message-ID: <54DB8736.2070904@mie.utoronto.ca> This is the final reminder for our next Ontology Summit 2015 session tomorrow Thursday February 12 on the topic Decision Making in Different Domains The session will be chaired by Mike Bennett, with Joe Kopena, Adrian Paschke, Michael Gruninger, and Ken Baclawski as invited speakers. * Date: Thursday, 12-Feb-2015 * Start-time: 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 6:30pm CEST / 5:30pm BST / 1730 UTC ** world clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150212T1230&p1=179 ** Duration: ~2.0 hours All other details can be found at http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/wiki/ConferenceCall_2015_02_12 and the main Ontology Summit page at http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/wiki/OntologySummit2015 - Michael Gruninger and Mark Underwood Chairs, Ontology Summit 2015 From gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Mon Feb 23 16:12:06 2015 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:12:06 -0500 Subject: [iaoa-general] Ontology Summit Track D session on Related Standards and Synergies for Emerging IoT Ontologies Message-ID: <54EB4346.9020905@mie.utoronto.ca> The theme of this year's Ontology Summit is Internet of Things: Toward Smart Networked Systems and Societies and over the next three months, we will explore 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 our next session this coming Thursday February 26 on the topic Related Standards and Synergies for Emerging IoT Ontologies The session will be chaired by Mark Underwood. * Date: Thursday, 26-Feb-2015 * Start-time: 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 6:30pm CEST / 5:30pm BST / 1730 UTC ** world clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150226T1230&p1=179 ** Duration: ~2.0 hours All other details can be found at http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/wiki/ConferenceCall_2015_02_26 and the main Ontology Summit page at http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/wiki/OntologySummit2015 - Michael Gruninger and Mark Underwood Chairs, Ontology Summit 2015 From gguizzardi at inf.ufes.br Tue Feb 24 18:21:30 2015 From: gguizzardi at inf.ufes.br (Giancarlo Guizzardi) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:21:30 -0300 Subject: [iaoa-general] Postdoctoral Positions in Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling at NEMO (Brazil) Message-ID: Dear colleague, We would like to announce post-doctoral positions in the Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Group (NEMO) in the Federal University of Espirito Santo in Brazil. NEMO is a very active group in the areas of Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling and Enterprise Computing. For instance, we are responsible for key contributions to the proposal of the Foundational Ontology UFO, the Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling Language OntoUML as well its associated tools. More information regarding our research program can be found in (http://nemo.inf.ufes.br). In particular, the following publications can give the interest candidate an idea of our research topics: Ontological Patterns, Anti-Patterns and Pattern Languages for Next-Generation Conceptual Modeling (http://www.inf.ufes.br/~gguizzardi/ER2014-keynote-CR.pdf) A commitment-based reference ontology for services (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306437915000228) NEMO has around 50 members (including permanent staff and students) and frequently receives internationally renowned Scientists. In particular, the research conducted in this post-doctoral position will be part of our collaboration with the Laboratory of Applied Ontology ( http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it) led by Nicola Guarino, who will spend time in our lab during the development of the project. NEMO is located in the beautiful island of Vitoria in the Brazilian southeast, where we have organized in 2014 the International IAOA Summer School on Ontological Analysis (http://iaoa.org/isc2014/) and is within a 45 minutes flight to Rio de Janeiro, where in 2014 we have co-organized the 8th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems FOIS (http://fois2014.inf.ufes.br). This position is for a period of maximum 36 months. The postdoc has no teaching duties and will receive a monthly stipend of BRL 4100,00 (tax free). Associated to the position, the postdoc will have a personal budget of BRL 40.000 as support for travelling, books and equipment. For a general idea of the cost of life in Vitoria, please refer to: http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_result.jsp?country=Brazil&city=Vitoria For information about Vitoria, please refer to the section ?About Vitoria? in http://iaoa.org/isc2014/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Venue The candidates must have obtained their PhD not more than 10 years before the starting date of the position. The deadline for submitting the formal proposal is May, 5th. For this reason, we encourage interested candidates to contact as soon as possible Vitor Silva Souza in the following email address vitorsouza at inf.ufes.br). We kindly ask you to forward this message to anyone you know that might be interested in this position. All the best, Giancarlo Guizzardi (http://www.inf.ufes.br/~gguizzardi/) Research lead at NEMO General Chair of the 9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2016) Associate Editor of the Applied Ontology Journal Advisory Board of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Tue Feb 24 23:52:12 2015 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:52:12 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] CfP: Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO-15) at IJCAI-15, Buenos Aires Message-ID: <001b01d05084$8aae2c80$a00a8580$@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> [distributed on request by Stefano Borgo] ========================================== Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO-15) -- Episode 1: The Argentine Winter -- Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-31, 2015 in conjunction with IJCAI 2015 http://iaoa.org/jowo --- First Call for Papers --- ========================================== Submission deadline: April 27, 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: April 27, 2015 Notification: May 20, 2015 Camera ready: May 30, 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. From hastings at ebi.ac.uk Wed Feb 25 15:28:02 2015 From: hastings at ebi.ac.uk (Janna Hastings) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:28:02 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] Reminder: ICBO 2015 Call for Submissions, one week to go! Message-ID: ICBO2015 Call for submissions *** Relevant dates *** Conference paper submission: Mar 2, 2015 Conference paper notification: Apr 6, 2015 Camera-ready conference papers: Apr 20, 2015 Workshop paper, software demonstration and early career submission: Apr 13, 2015 Workshop paper, software demonstration and early career notification: May 11, 2015 Camera-ready workshop papers, software demonstration papers/abstracts and early career abstracts: May 25, 2015 Demos and Poster abstract submissions: May 18, 2015 Demos and Poster abstract notifications: June 8th, 2015 Camera-ready poster abstracts: June 15th, 2015 *** Topics *** Ontologies are knowledge representation tools widely used in the semantic description of biological and medical data from creation to publication and consumption for research and software applications including expert systems. To be maximally effective for a wide range of diverse purposes, such ontologies must be of good quality and work well together. Therefore, issues like good ontology design, ontology coordination, methods for harnessing ontologies for research and applications, and ontology maintenance need to be addressed. The International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO) series is designed to meet this need. ICBO 2015, the sixth event in the highly successful series, will bring together representatives of all major communities involved in ontology use and development in biomedical research, health care, and related areas. *** Call for Papers *** ICBO 2015 is soliciting submissions of novel (not previously published nor concurrently submitted) research papers in the areas of the application of ontologies to biomedical problems, ontology design and ontology interoperability, at any stage in the process from data creation to use in applications or scientific analyses. Submissions will be welcome from a broad range of approaches to ontology building and use. In addition, we would like to invite contributions showcasing methods for ontology-based research, including statistical methods, and contributions addressing the challenges associated with working with multiple ontologies at the same time, including ontology development, visualization, annotation of data, analysis, and applications. We will accept full-length research and application papers (5 pages), poster submissions (2 page abstracts), software demonstrations (2 page abstracts), and early career researcher symposium submissions (2 page abstracts). A selection of successful poster abstracts will be invited to give flash presentations during the conference. We are also looking for submissions of half-day or full-day workshops and tutorials. Workshops should be working sessions with a specific outcome that can be subsequently presented at the main conference. Tutorials are educational events and may involve hands-on practicals. Submission of papers is via EasyChair ( https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icbo2015), according to the templates provided on the conference web site. A Best Paper Award, Best Poster Award, Best Demonstration Award, and a Best Early Career Paper Award will be conferred to the author(s) at the conference, selected by the Organizing Committee. All accepted papers and abstracts will be published in an issue of CEUR-WS ( http://ceur-ws.org/). In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Semantics (JBMS), an open-access journal published by BioMed Central (BMC). Note that publication in the JBMS special issue will incur article processing charges. *** Contact *** For more information please email icbo2015 at googlegroups.com *** Organizing Committee *** Scientific Chairs: Francisco Couto (Lisboa, Portugal) and Janna Hastings (Cambridge, UK) Local Chair: Catia Pesquita (Lisboa, Portugal) Program Chair: Stefan Schulz (Graz, Austria) Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Melanie Courtot (Vancouver, Canada) and Jo?o Ferreira (Lisboa, Portugal) Proceedings and Special Issue Chair: Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (Zurich, Switzerland) Early Career Chair: Pierre Grenon (London, UK) Poster and Demonstrations Chair: Matthew Horridge (Stanford, USA) Sponsorship and Publicity: Emanuel Santos (Lisboa, Portugal) and Pedro Fernandes (Oeiras, Portugal) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Janna Hastings Email: hastings at ebi.ac.uk | Tel: +44 (0)1223 494411 | Fax: +44 (0)1223 494468 Twitter: @jannahastings | ORCID: 0000-0002-3469-4923 | Web: www.ebi.ac.uk/~hastings Coordinator, Cheminformatics and Metabolism, European Bioinformatics Institute -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit ChEBI at www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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