From gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Mon Mar 2 15:55:43 2015 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 09:55:43 -0500 Subject: [iaoa-general] Ontology Summit Track B session on Beyond Semantic Sensor Network Ontologies Message-ID: <54F479EF.3000407@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 March 5 on the topic Beyond Semantic Sensor Network Ontologies The session will be chaired by Gary Berg-Cross and Torsten Hahmann. Speakers will include Charles Vardeman, Ingo Simonis,Jean-Paul Calbimonte, Konstantinos Kostis, Torsten Hahmann, Silvia Nittel, and Barry Smith. * Date: Thursday, 05-Mar-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=20150305T1230&p1=179 ** Duration: ~2.0 hours All other details can be found at http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/wiki/ConferenceCall_2015_03_05 and the main Ontology Summit page at http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/wiki/OntologySummit2015 - Michael Gruninger and Mark Underwood Chairs, Ontology Summit 2015 From hastings at ebi.ac.uk Mon Mar 2 18:06:35 2015 From: hastings at ebi.ac.uk (Janna Hastings) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 17:06:35 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] Update: ICBO 2015, Call for Submissions, *Deadline extended* Message-ID: ICBO2015 Call for submissions *Deadline extended* *** Relevant dates *** Conference paper submission: Mar 9, 2015 (11:59pm PST) <-- *Deadline extended* 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) *** Program Committee *** Alan Ruttenberg (University at Buffalo, USA) Alexander D. Diehl (The Jacobs Neurological Institute, University at Buffalo, USA) Amanda Hicks (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA) Anika Oellrich (Sanger Institute, UK) Barry Smith (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Bill Hogan (University of Florida) Christophe Lambert (Montana State University, USA) Christopher Baker (UNB Saint John, Canada) Colin Batchelor (Royal Society of Chemistry, UK) Cristian Cocos (Mayo Clinic, USA) Cui Tao (SBMI, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA) Dagobert Soergel (Department of Library and Information Studies, University at Buffalo, USA) Daniel Schober (Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Germany) Despoina Magka (Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK) Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany) Fred Freitas (CIn-UFPE, Brazil) Georgios Gkoutos (University of Cambridge, UK) Gwen Frishkoff (Georgia State University, USA) Harold Solbrig (Mayo Clinic, USA) Heinrich Herre (Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Germany) Helen Parkinson (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK) James Malone (The European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK) James J Cimino (National Institutes of Health, USA) James P. McCusker, 5AM Solutions Jesualdo Tom?s Fern?ndez-Breis (Departamento de Informatica y Sistemas, Universidad de Murcia, Spain) Jim Mccusker (5AM solutions, USA) Jin-Dong Kim (Database Center for Life Science, Japan) John Gennari (University of Washington, USA) Jos? Lu?s Oliveira (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal) Judy Blake (JAX, USA) Laura Slaughter (Oslo University Hospital, Norway) Lindsay Cowell (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA) Ludger Jansen (University of Rostock, Germany) M?rio J. Silva (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Mark Musen (Stanford University, USA) Martin Boeker (University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany) Mathias Brochhausen (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA) Melissa Haendel (Oregon Health & Science University) Michael Schroeder (TU Dresden, Germany) Michel Dumontier (Stanford University, USA) Nigam Shah (Stanford University, USA) Olivier Bodenreider (US National Library of Medicine, USA) Onard Mejino (University of Washington, USA) Paolo Ciccarese (Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, USA) Pascale Gaudet (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland) Paul Schofield (University of Cambridge, UK) Peter Robinson (Charite Universittsmedizin Berlin, Germany) Phillip Lord (School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK) Robert Stevens (University of Manchester, UK) Samuel Croset (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK) Simon Jupp (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK) Sivaram Arabandi (ONTOPRO, USA) Suzanne E. 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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 gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Mon Mar 9 22:41:28 2015 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:41:28 -0400 Subject: [iaoa-general] Ontology Summit Track A session on Ontology Integration in the Internet of Things Message-ID: <54FE1388.3040306@mie.utoronto.ca> You are cordially invited to our next session this coming Thursday March 12 on the topic Ontology Integration in the Internet of Things The session will be chaired by Leo Obrst and Ram Sriram, and will feature the following speakers: Eswaran Subrahmanian, Jim Hendler, and Krzysztof Janowicz. * Date: Thursday, 12-Mar-2015 * Start-time: 9:30am PDT / 12:30pm EDT / 5:30pm CEST / 4:30pm BST / 1630 UTC ** world clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150305T1230&p1=179 Important note: North America is now on Daylight Savings Time, so the start time for some locations is one hour earlier than previous sessions. Please follow the world clock link to confirm the correct start time for your location. ** Duration: ~2.0 hours All other details can be found at http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/wiki/ConferenceCall_2015_03_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 frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Thu Mar 12 13:39:31 2015 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 13:39:31 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] 2nd CfP: Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO), IJCAI-15, Buenos Aires In-Reply-To: <5500931C.6080003@gmail.com> References: <5500931C.6080003@gmail.com> Message-ID: <55018903.1060602@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 --- Second 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 gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Mon Mar 16 16:25:10 2015 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:25:10 -0400 Subject: [iaoa-general] Ontology Summit Track C session on Decision Making in Different Domains Message-ID: <5506F5D6.9060004@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 March 19 on the topic Decision Making in Different Domains The session will be chaired by Mike Bennett, and will feature Bill Murdock (IBM Watson), Marco Rospocher (FBK Trento), and Matthew Giannini (SkyFoundry) as invited speakers. * Date: Thursday, 19-Mar-2015 * Start-time: 9:30am PDT / 12:30pm EDT / 5:30pm CET / 4:30pm GMT / 1630 UTC ** world clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150319T1230&p1=179 Important note: North America is now on Daylight Savings Time, so the start time for some locations is one hour earlier than previous sessions. Please follow the world clock link to confirm the correct start time for your location. ** Duration: ~2.0 hours All other details can be found at http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/wiki/ConferenceCall_2015_03_19 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 Mar 23 20:45:05 2015 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:45:05 -0400 Subject: [iaoa-general] Ontology Summit Synthesis II Session Message-ID: <55106D41.1010902@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 March26, for our second Synthesis session, where we will also discuss the Communique. * Date: Thursday, 26-Mar-2015 * Start-time: 9:30am PDT / 12:30pm EDT / 5:30pm CET / 4:30pm GMT / 1630 UTC ** world clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150326T1230&p1=179 Important note: North America is now on Daylight Savings Time, so the start time for some locations is one hour earlier than previous sessions. Please follow the world clock link to confirm the correct start time for your location. ** Duration: ~2.0 hours All other details can be found at http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/wiki/ConferenceCall_2015_03_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 hastings at ebi.ac.uk Tue Mar 24 14:28:46 2015 From: hastings at ebi.ac.uk (Janna Hastings) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:28:46 -0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] ICBO 2015: Call for Early Career Submissions, due April 13th In-Reply-To: <030b01d06636$62e730d0$28b59270$@ebi.ac.uk> References: <02e801d06635$ad7f5f10$087e1d30$@ebi.ac.uk> <02fb01d06635$ec363620$c4a2a260$@ebi.ac.uk> <030b01d06636$62e730d0$28b59270$@ebi.ac.uk> Message-ID: <031601d06636$748a6b40$5d9f41c0$@ebi.ac.uk> http://icbo2015.fc.ul.pt/callearly.html The ICBO Early Career Track offers a venue for students and early career researchers and practitioners to present work relevant to the conference aims and topics. 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. Eligibility criteria for submission to the Early Career Track are as follows: - the author or the first author is either a) a student (undergraduate, graduate) or b) within 5 years of their first industrial or postdoctoral academic appointment - the submission is in the form of an extended abstract - the length of the submission is 2 pages maximum following the conference's paper preparation guidelines (see the conference's author instructions for further details). It is essential that presenters satisfy the first of the above criteria. Submissions through the main conference's EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icbo2015 Selecting "Early Career" in the Topics list. Original submissions to the Early Career Track are encouraged. However, work presented in a submission rejected from the main conference track may be presented in a submission to the Early Career Track provided the eligibility criteria are satisfied. Additional information: Final versions of accepted abstracts will be published within a dedicated section of the conference proceedings. A Best Early Career Paper Award will be selected by the Organising Committee and conferred to the author(s) at the conference. Important dates Apr 13: Submission May 11: Author notification May 25: Camera-ready for accepted contributions Jul 29-30 (tbd): Early Career Track at ICBO For more information, please contact icbo2015 at googlegroups.com, indicating "[icbo2015] Early Career Track" in the subject line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- 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... URL: From gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Tue Mar 31 16:53:08 2015 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:53:08 -0400 Subject: [iaoa-general] Ontology Summit Communique discussion Message-ID: <551AB4D4.7060604@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 April 2, for our Communique review session. * Date: Thursday, 2-Apr-2015 * Start-time: 9:30am PDT / 12:30pm EDT / 6:30pm CEST / 5:30pm BST / 1630 UTC ** world clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150402T1230&p1=179 ** Duration: ~1.5 hours All other details can be found at http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/wiki/ConferenceCall_2015_04_02 and the main Ontology Summit page at http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/wiki/OntologySummit2015 - Michael Gruninger and Mark Underwood Chairs, Ontology Summit 2015