From jpalmeida at ieee.org Mon Feb 1 00:29:39 2016 From: jpalmeida at ieee.org (=?ISO-8859-1?B?Sm/jbw==?= Paulo Almeida) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 21:29:39 -0200 Subject: [iaoa-general] FOIS 2016 CFP: Deadline Extension Message-ID: (with apologies for cross-posting) NEWS: DEADLINE EXTENSION! The deadline for the submission of papers is extended until *Midnight (between the 15th and the 16th of February, CET Time Zone*) CALL FOR PAPERS 9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2016) July 6-9, 2016, University of Savoie, Annecy (France) website: http://iaoa.org/fois2016 contact: fois2016 at easychair.org IMPORTANT DATES: FOIS Paper Submission Deadline: Feb 15, 2016 NOTICE: DEADLINE EXTENDED! FOIS Notification: Apr 15, 2016 Conference Date: Jul 6-9, 2016 DEFINITION AND SCOPE Formal ontology for information systems is now a research focus in such diverse domains as conceptual modeling, database design, software engineering, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics, geographic information science, knowledge engineering, information retrieval, and the semantic web. Researchers in all these areas increasingly recognize the need for serious engagement with ontology to provide a foundation for their work, where ontology is understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations making up domains of enquiry. The FOIS conference provides a meeting point for researchers from all disciplines with an interest in formal ontology. The conference encourages submission of high quality articles on both theoretical issues and concrete applications. As in previous years, FOIS 2016 is intended as a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication. It is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA, http://iaoa.org/), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in the applications of ontological analysis to conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering, knowledge management, information-systems development, library and information science, scientific research, and semantic technologies in general. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (details in http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/index.php?n=Main.Program) Friederike Moltmann (IHPST, Paris, France & New York University, USA) Stephen Mumford (University of Nottingham, UK) Gilberto C?mara (National Institute for Space Research, Brazil) TOPICS OF INTEREST We seek high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. Concerning scope, an ideal FOIS paper will address both content-related ontological issues and their formal modeling, as well as their impact and relevance for some aspects of information systems. Areas of particular interest to the conference include the following: Foundational Issues * Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts * Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation * Vagueness and granularity * Space, time, and change Methodological issues * Role of reference ontologies * Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies * Relationship with cognition, language and semantics * Formal comparison among ontologies * Ontology integration and alignment Domain-specific ontologies * Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, etc.) * Ontology of biological reality (genes, proteins, cells, organisms, etc.) * Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, percepts, etc.) * Ontology of artifacts, functions and roles * Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, languages, etc.) * Ontology of perception (human and artificial) Applications * Ontology-driven information systems design * Ontological foundations for conceptual modeling * Knowledge management * Qualitative modeling * Computational linguistics * Information retrieval * Semantic Web, web services * Ontology and the Internet of Things: Smart Networked Systems and Societies * Ontology for Big Data * Business modeling * Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, cognitive sciences, linguistics etc.) * Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture, etc. * Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, etc. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submitted papers must not exceed 14 pages (including the bibliography) and include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Papers should be submitted non-anonymously and be prepared in PDF format in accordance with the IOS formatting guidelines found at http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-author s/. The EasyChair submission page is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2016 As with previous FOIS conferences, the proceedings will be published by IOS Press, this year in electronic format with permanent open access (!). FOIS SATELLITE ACTIVITIES Following the success of the 2014 edition, FOIS 2016 will include, in addition to paper presentations, + workshops (see http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/index.php?n=Main.Workshops) + a demo session (see http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/index.php?n=Main.RelatedEvents#demo) + a formal ontology competition (see http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/index.php?n=Main.RelatedEvents#competition) + an early career symposium (ECS) (see http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/index.php?n=Main.RelatedEvents#ecs) FOIS 2016 will be directly preceded by the 3rd Interdisciplinary Summer School on Ontological Analysis. It will moreover be co-located with ICCS 2016 (International Conference on Conceptual Structures), to be held July 4-6. SATELLITE ACTIVITIES - IMPORTANT DATES AT A GLANCE ECS Paper Submission Deadline: Feb 26, 2016 ECS Notification: Apr 15, 2016 Demo Submission Deadline: Mar 15, 2016 Demo Notification: Apr 11, 2016 Ontologies Submission Deadline: Mar 15, 2016 Competition Notification: Apr 11, 2016 Workshop Proposal Deadline: Jan 15, 2016 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION General Chair: Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil) Program Chairs: Roberta Ferrario (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) Werner Kuhn (University of California Santa Barbara, USA) Local Organization: Patrick Barlatier (University of Savoie-Mt. Blanc, France) Richard Dapoigny (University of Savoie-Mt. Blanc, France) Workshops: Oliver Kutz (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Sergio de Cesare (Brunel University London, UK) Ontology Competition: Fabian Neuhaus (University of Magdeburg, Germany) Early Career Symposium: Adrien Barton (Universit? de Sherbrooke, Qu?bec, Canada) Jean-R?mi Bourguet (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil) Stefano Borgo (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) Publicity: Jo?o Paulo A. Almeida (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil) Boyan Brodaric (Geological Survey of Canada, Canada) Demonstrations: Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jo?o Paulo A. Almeida (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil) Mauricio Almeida (UFMG, Brazil) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT Toulouse, France) Patrick Barlatier (University of Savoie, France) Adrien Barton (Universit? de Sherbrooke, Qu?bec, Canada) Colin Batchelor (Royal Society of Chemistry, UK) John Bateman (University of Bremen, Germany) Mehul Bhatt (The University of Bremen, Germany) Thomas Bittner (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Olivier Bodenreider (US National Library of Medicine, USA) Alex Borgida (Rutgers University, USA) Stefano Borgo (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) Jean-R?mi Bourguet (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil) Mathias Brochhausen (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA) Boyan Brodaric (Geological Survey of Canada, Canada) Paul Buitelaar (Insight Centre for Data Analytics - National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) Pier Luigi Buttigieg (Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum f?r Polar- und Meeresforschung, Germany) Maria Luiza Campos (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Roberto Casati (Institut Jean Nicod EHESS DEC/ENS, France) Werner Ceusters (SUNY at Buffalo, USA) Jean Charlet (Institut national de la sant? et de la recherche m?dicale, Paris, France) Vinay Chaudhri (SRI International, USA) Michelle Cheatham (Wright State University, USA) Philipp Cimiano (University of Bielefeld, Germany) Madalina Croitoru (INRIA, Montpellier, France) Mathieu D'Aquin (Knowledge Media Institute, the Open University, UK) Richard Dapoigny (LISTIC/Polytech'Savoie, France) Sergio de Cesare (Brunel University London, UK) Maureen Donnelly (University at Buffalo, USA) J?r?me Euzenat (INRIA & LIG, France) Ricardo Falbo (Universidade Federal do Esprito Santo, Brazil) Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA) Roberta Ferrario (Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies - CNR, Italy) Peter Fox (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Antony Galton (University of Exeter, UK) Fabien Gandon (INRIA, Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France) Aldo Gangemi (ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy) Pawel Garbacz (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) Chiara Ghidini (FBK-irst, Italy) Pierre Grenon (EMBL-EBI, UK) Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto, Canada) Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil) Terry Halpin (LogicBlox Inc, USA) Heinrich Herre (IMESE, University of Leipzig, Germany) Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA) Robert Hoehndorf (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) Matthew Horridge (Stanford University, USA) Krzysztof Janowicz (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Ludger Jansen (University of M?nster, Germany) Paul Johannesson (Stockholm University, Sweden) Gilles Kassel (Universit? de Picardie Jules Verne, France) Marijke Keet (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Yoshinobu Kitamura (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger (University of Osnabrueck, Institute of Cognitive Science, Germany) Werner Kuhn (UC Santa Barbara, USA) Oliver Kutz (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Christoph Lange (University of Bonn, Germany) Joshua Lieberman (Harvard University, USA) Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany) Claudio Masolo (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) Christopher Menzel (Texas A&M University, USA) Riichiro Mizoguchi (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Till Mossakowski (University of Magdeburg, Germany) Mark Musen (Stanford University, USA) John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada) Fabian Neuhaus (University of Magdeburg, Germany) Leo Obrst (MITRE, USA) Jeffrey Parsons (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) Oscar Pastor Lopez (Valencia, Spain) Florian Probst (SAP Research, Germany) Chantal Reynaud (Universit? Paris Sud, France) Renato Rocha Souza (Funda??o Getulio Vargas, Brazil) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Simon Scheider (University of Muenster, Germany) Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Marco Schorlemmer (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC, Spain) Stefan Schulz (University of Graz, Austria) Johanna Seibt (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Aarhus, Denmark) Luciano Serafini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) Gaurav Sinha (Ohio University, USA) Barry Smith (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Gem Stapleton (University of Brighton, UK) Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS-ENS-EHESS, France) Veda Storey (GSU, USA) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) Mari Carmen Su?rez-Figueroa (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain) Danai Symeonidou (INRA Montpellier, France) Michael Uschold (Reinvent Technology, USA) Achille Varzi (Columbia University, USA) Guido Vetere (IBM, Italy) Renata Vieira (Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Laure Vieu (CNRS, France) Gerd Wagner (Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany) Renata Wassermann (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Antoine Zimmermann (?cole des Mines de Saint-?tienne, France) From gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Mon Feb 8 19:06:55 2016 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 13:06:55 -0500 Subject: [iaoa-general] Ontology Summit 2016 Launch Message-ID: <56B8D93F.6080002@mie.utoronto.ca> The theme of this year's Ontology Summit is Framing the Conversation: Ontologies within Semantic Interoperability Ecosystems and over the next three months, explore, identify and articulate how ontologies and ontological methods can facilitate semantic interoperability. The Launch session for the Summit will be this coming Thursday February 11 (details below). We will have presentations from each of the technical Tracks, outlining their plans for upcoming sessions. * Date: Thursday, 11-Feb-2016 * 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=20160211T1230&p1=179 ** Duration: ~1.5 hours All other details can be found at http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2016_02_11 - Donna Fritzsche and Michael Gruninger Chairs, Ontology Summit 2016 From gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Tue Feb 16 19:35:58 2016 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 13:35:58 -0500 Subject: [iaoa-general] Ontology Summit 2016: Framing the Conversation Message-ID: <20160216133558.Horde.OUgrKgZDzf_ZQg0txnU5Tg6@central.mie.utoronto.ca> A reminder of this Thursday's session for Ontology Summit 2016: Our goal is to build a common framework which will facilitate discussions regarding the role of ontologies within semantic interoperability ecosystems. We will discuss themes, models, processes, functionality, considerations and measures which shed light on or help to communicate the Semantic Interoperability Ecosystem to a broader audience. We will purposely focus on the role of ontologies within these frameworks. Examples will be used to illustrate our points. It is hoped that the results of this session will help to frame and target the discussion in the domain-specific tracks to follow in the coming weeks. Together with findings from previous summits, this framework will provide a foundation and help direct conversation. The speakers are: John Sowa (VivoMind Research) Krzysztof Janowicz (Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara) Lalit Patil (Ford Motor Company) Hans Polzer (Consultant) * Date: Thursday, 18-Feb-2016 * 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=20160218T1230&p1=179 ** Duration: ~1.5 hours All other details can be found at http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2016_02_18 - Donna Fritzsche and Michael Gruninger Chairs, Ontology Summit 2016 From jpalmeida at ieee.org Mon Feb 22 14:07:44 2016 From: jpalmeida at ieee.org (=?ISO-8859-1?B?Sm/jbw==?= Paulo Almeida) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:07:44 -0200 Subject: [iaoa-general] FOIS 2016 Early Career Symposium Call for Applications Message-ID: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Early Career Symposium (FOIS 2016) 9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems Application deadline: March 4th, 2016 *extended* website: http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/index.php?n=Main.RelatedEvents#ecs contact: ecsfois16 at gmail.com Scope This event is designed to provide an opportunity for graduate students to present their work at one of the leading conferences in formal ontology and to get first-hand feedback and mentorship from senior researchers in their field. It will also allow participants to network with other early career scientists in the broad field of ontology. Topics of interest include all topics relevant to the interdisciplinary field of ontology as outlined in the topics of interest for FOIS 2016. Format The ECS will be held as a poster session within the main FOIS conference. The poster session will be opened by a lightning talks session, during which each participant has the opportunity to advertise his/her work in a 3 minutes speech to the general audience of the FOIS conference. Each participant will be assigned a senior researcher as a mentor, who will provide substantial feedback to his/her work. Moreover, a PhD Lounge will allow early career scientists to meet and discuss their work with each other. Application Instructions The ECS is open to students at the Masters and Doctoral Level who have not defended their thesis before the ECS Submission deadline. Candidates can apply by submitting a description of their research project (see the template at the web site) and a current CV by March 4th, 2016. Submissions will be reviewed by selected members of the FOIS Program Committee. Submission should be made via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2016 (select the track 'Early Career Symposium') Accepted submissions will be published in a FOIS DBLP indexed proceedings (CEUR, ISSN 1613-0073) together with papers from the FOIS Demo Track and the FOIS Ontology Competition. All participants must register for the main conference. Applicants can apply for the scholarships made available by the IAOA. Contact For all queries about the Early Career Symposium, please contact the organizers at ecsfois16 at gmail.com. Important Dates ECS Submission deadline : March 4th, 2016 ECS Notification of acceptance : April 15th, 2016 Early Career Symposium : July 8th, 2016 ECS Organizers Adrien Barton (University de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada) Stefano Borgo (ISTC CNR, Italy) Jean-Remi Bourguet (Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil) From gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Mon Feb 22 15:48:03 2016 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 09:48:03 -0500 Subject: [iaoa-general] GeoScience and Semantic Interoperability Message-ID: <56CB1FA3.4030509@mie.utoronto.ca> A reminder of this Thursday's session for Ontology Summit 2016: GeoScience and Semantic Interoperability Report on activities such as NSF?s EarthCube that feature different GeoScience domains working on semantic interoperability issues to promote understanding of the state of the art across different approaches and what challenges remain. Session Co-Chairs: *Gary Berg-Cross and Ken Baclawski * The speakers are: - Brandon Whitehead (University of Auckland, Auckland) Broad and deep view of semantics in GeoScience together with a list of issues - Ruth Duerr (BCube) Semantics and the discovery and use of data and data services - Adila Krisnadhi (Wright State) Dealing with semantic heterogeneity in data integration using modular ontology patterns - Matthew Mayernik (UCAR) Building Geoscience Semantic Applications Using Established Ontologies * Date: Thursday, 25-Feb-2016 * 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=20160225T1230&p1=179 ** Duration: ~1.5 hours All other details can be found at http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2016_02_25 - Donna Fritzsche and Michael Gruninger Chairs, Ontology Summit 2016 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Mon Feb 29 23:18:02 2016 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 17:18:02 -0500 Subject: [iaoa-general] Cloud Services and Semantic Interoperability (Ontology Summit 2016) Message-ID: <20160229171802.Horde.mQkR-txlgSuyoRdOdbdt5A4@central.mie.utoronto.ca> A reminder of this Thursday's session for Ontology Summit 2016: Cloud Services and Semantic Interoperability Session Chairs: Mark Underwood and Todd Schneider Two important consequences of the ?cloudification? of computing are DevOps and an API-first (espoused by Intel?s Brian Krzanich) design philosophy. While SOA and ?composable services? introduced many of the same concepts in earlier generations (indeed, both DevOps and API-first steal from well-burnished concepts), the level of adoption across software and data providers is unprecedented. Computing environments for large scale projects can be stood up in minutes, tested and disposed of the following day. Products like Zapier and IFTTT allow for orchestration of cloud services across providers. The Zapier App Directory offers around 100 integrations. Interop exists across platforms (as in hybrid cloud storage), applications (e.g., between QuickBooks and a telephony app like DialMyCalls), and also what some are calling ?cognitive services.? Cloudify suggests using TOSCA (a cloud orchestration standard) to connect resources like OpenStack or VMware using open source tools.) Github repositories can store ontologies, but can this be scaled up to build applications, sharing ontologies within or across domains? Will developers tempted to use ontologies be able to gain the same productivity benefits they experience elsewhere with cloud services? We ask a few vendors Speakers: * Peio Popov (OntoText) * David Price (TopQuadrant) * Mark Underwood (Krypton Brothers) Date: Thursday, 03-Mar-2016 Start Time: 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 6:30pm CEST / 5:30pm BST / 1630 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=03&day=03&year=2016&hour=12&min=30&sec=0&p1=179 All other details can be found at http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2016_03_03 - Donna Fritzsche and Michael Gruninger Chairs, Ontology Summit 2016