From sergio.decesare at gmail.com Thu Dec 8 12:23:57 2016 From: sergio.decesare at gmail.com (Sergio de Cesare) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 11:23:57 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] ER 2017: Call for Workshops Message-ID: Call for Workshops - ER 2017, Valencia http://er2017.pros.webs.upv.es The International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER) is the leading international forum for presenting and discussing research and applications of conceptual modeling. Topics of interest include foundations of conceptual models, theories of concepts, ontology-driven conceptual modeling and analysis, methods and tools for developing, communicating, consolidating, and evolving conceptual models, and techniques for transforming conceptual models into effective implementations. Continuing a long tradition, ER 2017 will host a number of workshops to be held in conjunction with the main ER 2017 conference. The workshops will serve as an intensive collaborative forum for exchanging innovative ideas about conceptual modeling, and for discovering new frontiers for its use. We specifically invite proposals for interactive workshops on new, emerging, or established topics in conceptual modeling, or its application in specific domains. We encourage workshop organizers to include activities that provide their participants with a true workshop experience. Submission Guidelines Workshop proposals should be about 3-5 pages long, submitted as a single pdf file by email to both ER workshop co-chairs and contain the following information: ? Title ? Topics of interest ? Format and duration ? Type (academic and/or industrial) ? Significance to conceptual modeling ? Organizers (short CVs, limit of two pages each, experience in organizing events) ? Proposed program committee ? Expected numbers of submissions and participants ? Expected number of accepted papers ? Activities that facilitate discussion among participants ? Activities that convey state-of-the-art to participants ? Activities that convey open challenges to participants ? Information about previous workshop editions, including submission and registration numbers Workshop proposal submission: Friday, January 20, 2017 Notification of acceptance: Friday, February 10, 2017 Submission of workshop papers: Friday, June 30, 2017 Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: Friday, August 4, 2017 All workshops will take place on Monday, November 6, 2017 Proposal Evaluation Criteria The number of acceptable workshop proposals is limited by the time available and the facilities of the conference venue. Workshop proposals will be evaluated according to the: ? Scientific quality of the proposal ? Significance to conceptual modeling ? Likely numbers of high-quality submissions ? Quality of workshop experience for participants ? Overlap with other workshops ER Workshop Co-Chairs ? Sergio de Cesare, Brunel University London, United Kingdom, e-mail: sergio.decesare at brunel.ac.uk ? Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg- Essen, Germany, e-mail: ulrich.frank at uni-due.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From musen at stanford.edu Tue Dec 13 15:51:29 2016 From: musen at stanford.edu (Mark A Musen) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:51:29 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] New editors-in-chief at Applied Ontology: Message from IOS Press Message-ID: <0F9FA791-9C81-4804-B003-637D5348A407@stanford.edu> IOS Press is pleased to announce that Dr. Roberta Ferrario and Prof. Michael Gruninger have accepted the appointment as new Editors-in-Chief of Applied Ontology. Previously Associate Editors of the journal, they will take over the editorship from Prof. Mark Musen and Dr. Nicola Guarino, who have run the journal successfully since its launch in 2005. The change in editorship will commence in January 2017 with Volume 11. Prof. Musen and Dr. Guarino will continue to support the journal as Founding Editors and assist the new Editors-in-Chief during the transition period. Dr. Ferrario and Prof. Gruninger bring an outstanding record of scholarship and professional service to Applied Ontology and will continue work on the development of the journal and the scientific community surrounding it, including cooperation with theInternational Association for Ontology and its Applications and important conferences in the field. On behalf of IOS Press, the editorial board, authors, reviewers, and readers we wish to express gratitude to Prof. Musen and Dr. Guarino for their commitment during the first ten years of publishing Applied Ontology. Their hard work and devotion have made the journal the highly regarded publication it is today. We look forward to advancing the journal further into the next decade under the leadership of Dr. Ferrario and Prof. Gruninger. About the new Editors Dr. Roberta Ferrario is a researcher in the Laboratory for Applied Ontology at the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council in Trento, where she has worked since 2003. After finishing her Ph.D. in Philosophy in a joint program between the Universities of Milan (Italy) and Strasbourg (France), she spent an academic year at the Suppes Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science and Technology of Stanford University. Dr. Ferrario studies the ontology of mind, of organizations and of services. Recently, she has turned her attention to the ontology of socio-technical systems and on the integration of ontological and computer vision approaches. She is the author of more than 80 scientific publications. Dr. Ferrario served as Assistant Editor of Applied Ontology from 2005 until 2014, and she has been Associate Editor since 2015. Dr. Ferrario serves on the executive council of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications. Prof. Michael Gruninger is an associate professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, where he has been on the faculty since 2010. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta (Canada) in 2000, and he has worked in the area of formal ontology and its applications to industrial problems for the past twenty years. Prof. Gruninger has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers, including a seminal paper in the methodology of ontology design and evaluation. His current research focuses on the design and formal characterization of theories in mathematical logic and their application to problems in manufacturing and enterprise engineering. Several of Prof. Gruninger's projects have been incorporated into international standards, including the Process Specification Language (ISO 18629) and Common Logic (ISO 24707). In 2015, Prof. Gruninger became a Fellow of the Vespucci Institute for the Advancement of Geographic Information Science. Prof. Gruninger is currently President of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: