From gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Mon Mar 7 22:51:48 2016 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 16:51:48 -0500 Subject: [iaoa-general] Health Sciences and Semantic Interoperability (Ontology Summit 2016) Message-ID: <56DDF7F4.5040102@mie.utoronto.ca> A reminder of this Thursday's session for Ontology Summit 2016: Health Sciences and Semantic Interoperability Session Chairs: Leo Obrst and Ram Sriram Speakers: * Olivier Bodenreider Ontologies Support Semantic Interoperability in Healthcare: Two Use Cases in Information Exchange and Analytics * Eric Little Integrating the Laboratory for Improved Analytics: How Semantics Is Driving an Evolution of 21st Century Labs * Kincho Law An Ontology-Based Approach for Facilitating Information Retrieval from Disparate Sources: Patent System as an Exemplar * Parsa Mirhaji The Semantic Data Lake in Healthcare Date: Thursday, 10-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=10&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_10 - Donna Fritzsche and Michael Gruninger Chairs, Ontology Summit 2016 From gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Mon Mar 14 19:20:35 2016 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:20:35 -0400 Subject: [iaoa-general] Semantic Integration in Engineering (Ontology Summit 2016) Message-ID: <56E700F3.3070004@mie.utoronto.ca> A reminder of this Thursday's session for Ontology Summit 2016: Semantic Integration in Engineering Session Chairs: Todd Schneider and Mark Underwood Speakers: * Bob Young (Loughborough University) Semantic Interoperability -- Towards a Standard Manufacturing Reference Ontology * Kevin J Lynch (Raytheon, Engineering Operations Directorate) * Randy Ramsey (Raytheon) * MichaelGruninger (University of Toronto) The Ontological Imperative in Manufacturing Date: Thursday, 17-Mar-2016 Start Time: 9:30am PDT / 12:30pm EDT / 5:30pm CEST / 4:30pm BST / 1630 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=03&day=17&year=2016&hour=12&min=30&sec=0&p1=179 Note that North America is now on Daylight Savings Time, but Europe is still on Standard Time. Check your local times. All other details can be found at http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2016_03_17 - Donna Fritzsche and Michael Gruninger Chairs, Ontology Summit 2016 From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Tue Mar 15 18:29:26 2016 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:29:26 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] CfP: Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO-16) Message-ID: <56E84676.9010102@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> [forwarded upon request by Stefano Borgo] --- First Call for Papers --- Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO-16) -- Episode 2: The French Summer -- 5 workshops on Ontology in Information Systems http://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2016/ Co-located with FOIS 2016, July 6-9, 2016, Annecy, France http://iaoa.org/fois This second edition of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO-16) combines five exciting ontology-centered workshops at FOIS-16. WORKSHOPS: - Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution (WOMoCoE 2016) - Computer vision + ONTology: Applied Cross-disciplinary Technologies (CONTACT 2016) - Cognition and Ontologies (CAOS 2016) - New Standards for the Working Ontologist: Common Logic and DOL (NSWO 2016) - Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling (Onto.Com 2016) JOWO-16 is supported by the International Association for Ontology and its Applications - IAOA. It features a series of (shared) invited talks, paper presentations, and discussions spread across five full-day workshops and tutorials. ---------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission (abstracts): April 19, 2016 Submission (full papers): April 25, 2016 Notification: May 12, 2016 Camera ready: May 31, 2016 ---------------------------------- ================================== WOMoCoE 2016 http://www.iaoa.org/womocoe/2016/ International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution ================================== Organisers: Stefano Borgo, Loris Bozzato, Chiara Del Vescovo, Martin Homola This workshop brings together two long standing event series: WoMO, the workshops on modular ontology, and ARCOE, the workshops on automated reasoning on context and ontology evolution. The goal is to discuss these topics in a single venue and try to compare/integrate the new ideas on ontology modularity, context and evolution. The workshop is open to theoretical and application research, experiences and innovative visions featuring a Program Committee with a mix of experienced and young groundbreaking people. WOMOCoE will feature an invited talk by Jerome Euzenat. ================================== CONTACT 2016 http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/CONTACT2016 Second International Workshop on Computer vision + ONTology: Applied Cross-disciplinary Technologies ================================== Organisers: Marco Cristani, C?line Hudelot, Daniele Porello The aim of the CONTACT series is to bring together a wide range of researchers in formal ontology on the one side and computer vision and machine learning on the other, to share innovative ideas and solutions for exploiting the potential synergies emerging from the integration of the two domains. The problem of image and video understanding is a complex task that benefits from a multi-disciplinary perspective. CONTACT provides a venue to discuss a principled methodology to ascribe meaning to images and videos, as well as the applications of this methodology to querying image databases, reasoning about images and scenes, inferring information from videos. ================================== CAOS 2016 http://caos.inf.unibz.it/ First International Workshop on Cognition and Ontologies ================================== Organisers: Maria M. Hedblom, Tarek R. Besold, Oliver Kutz, Tony Veale CAOS is for researchers interested in discussing cognitive mechanisms and phenomena from an ontological perspective. Work on artificial intelligence, cognitive systems, applied ontology, natural language processing, reasoning, formal concept invention, and philosophical aspects of the former are the main focus of the workshop. (Still, all other topics relating cognition and ontology are of course equally welcome.) We especially encourage submissions on different theories of cognition, work addressing the symbol grounding problem(s), and attempts to make concrete the abstract nature of concepts and metaphors. Join us! ================================== NSWO 2016 http://nswo.inf.unibz.it New Standards for the Working Ontologist: Common Logic and DOL ================================== Organisers: Michael Gruninger, Oliver Kutz, Till Mossakowski, Fabian Neuhaus NSWO 2016 will be entirely devoted to two new standards in the realm of applied ontology: the second revision of Common Logic and the new Distributed Ontology, Model, and Specification Language, DOL. NSWO will provide tutorials introducing syntax and semantics of both Common Logic and DOL. We will be discussing a number of modelling and interoperability problems that can be addressed with these standards, analyse the mostly complementary relationship between Common Logic and DOL, and demonstrate available tools. NSWO also invites contributed scientific papers involving Common Logic and/or DOL. ================================== Onto.Com 2016 http://www.mis.ugent.be/ontocom2016/ Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling ================================== Organisers: Giancarlo Guizzardi, Sergio de Cesare, Frederik Gailly, Mark Lycett, Chris Partridge, Oscar Pastor This year the theme of Onto.Com will be Foundational Ontologies and their Meta-ontological Choices. Leading ontologists and conceptual modelers will be invited to discuss and comparatively analyze different foundational ontologies, their meta-ontological choices and their associated modeling processes. The workshop will be practically oriented and discussions will be centered on models produced for a common case study. This will facilitate discussions related to the consequences of making different meta-ontological choices. ---------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please refer to the individual workshops for detailed lists of topics appropriate for each workshop and submission modalities. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committees of the individual workshops. Accepted papers will be made available in the form of a single joint workshop proceedings volume published at CEUR. For additional publication plans check the individual workshops. ---------------------------------- JOWO General Chairs Oliver Kutz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Sergio de Cesare (Brunel University, UK) Contact: jowo.steering at gmail.com From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Wed Mar 23 01:13:32 2016 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 01:13:32 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] Deadline Extension: Apr 25 - FOIS 2016 Satellite Activities (ECS / Ontology Competition / Demonstrations Track) Message-ID: <56F1DFAC.4060207@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - FOIS 2016 - July 6-9, 2016, University of Savoie, Annecy, France DEADLINE EXTENSIONS FOR SATELLITE ACTIVITIES * Early Career Symposium (ECS) * Formal Ontology Competition * Demonstrations Track [1] website with ALL DETAILS http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/index.php?n=Main.SatelliteActivities [2] SUBMIT via FOIS 2016 in EasyChair (selecting the track there) https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2016 ------------------ EXTENDED DEADLINES ------------------ For all satellite activities, these new submission deadlines apply: * paper submission: Apr 25, 2016 (Monday) <-- !! strict !! * notification: May 12, 2016 (Thursday) * final versions: May 31, 2016 (Tuesday) ========================================================= Please note KEY INFORMATION subsequently. Further information with all details is available at [1]. ---------------------- EARLY CAREER SYMPOSIUM ---------------------- The ECS will be held as a poster session, opened by lightning talks. Students at the Master's and Doctoral levels as well as Postdocs are invited to submit: (1) a two-page description of their research project and (2) a current CV. Please submit in PDF format and in accordance with the template [3]. Contact: [4] ecsfois16 at gmail.com --------------------------- FORMAL ONTOLOGY COMPETITION --------------------------- The FOIS 2016 Ontology Competition is intended to recognize high-quality ontologies and to encourage the spread of best practices in the ontology community. The topic of the 2016 Ontology Competition is "Representing Change in Ontologies". There are no restrictions on the subject matter of the ontology. Details about the competition can be found at [5] http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/index.php?n=Main.SatelliteActivities#competition . Contact: [6] fois2016.competition at gmail.com -------------------- DEMONSTRATIONS TRACK -------------------- The FOIS 2016 Demo session is designed to provide an exciting and highly interactive way to demonstrate ontology research. Submissions of at most 5 pages in accordance with IOS Press formatting guidelines [7] should specify: * What is the research background and application context of the demonstration? * What exactly will be demonstrated? What exactly will a visitor of the demonstration learn? * For whom is it most interesting / useful? * What are the key technologies used and what are the technical challenges addressed? * How does the demonstrated system, application or infrastructure relate to pre-existing work and why is it a novel showcase in ontology research? Contact: [8] fois2016.demo at gmail.com ---------------------- REVIEW AND PUBLICATION ---------------------- Submissions to any of the above satellite activities will be reviewed by selected members of the FOIS 2016 Program Committee. All accepted submissions will be published in a joint CEUR proceedings volume (ISSN 1613-0073, DBLP-indexed). LINKS: [1] website with detailed information http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/index.php?n=Main.SatelliteActivities [2] submit via FOIS 2016 in EasyChair (select corresponding track) https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2016 [3] template for ECS submissions http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/fois16-ecs/ECS_submission_template.zip [4] contact for ECS ecsfois16 at gmail.com [5] Formal Ontology Competition details http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/index.php?n=Main.SatelliteActivities#competition [6] contact for Formal Ontology Competition fois2016.competition at gmail.com [7] IOS Press formatting guidelines http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/ [8] contact for FOIS 2016 Demonstrations Track fois2016.demo at gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Wed Mar 23 04:25:56 2016 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 23:25:56 -0400 Subject: [iaoa-general] Semantic Integration in Finance (Ontology Summit 2016) Message-ID: <20160322232556.Horde.N2cJ9nobNu1zSFC5rMFOyA6@central.mie.utoronto.ca> A reminder of this week's session for Ontology Summit 2016: Semantic Integration in Finance Session Chair: Mike Bennett Speakers: * Elisa Kendall (Thematix Partners LLC) Using Business Architecture and Semantics to Drive Data Quality Improvement in Banking * Michael Uschold (Semantic Arts); Lynn Calahan (Wells Fargo) Referencing the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act in Building a Loans Ontology * MikeBennett (Hypercube); Juan Sequeda (Capsenta) Creating a Virtual Knowledge Base for Financial Risk and Reporting Date: Thursday, 24-Mar-2016 Start Time: 9:30am PDT / 12:30pm EDT / 5:30pm CEST / 4:30pm BST / 1630 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=03&day=24&year=2016&hour=12&min=30&sec=0&p1=179 Note that North America is now on Daylight Savings Time, but Europe is still on Standard Time. Check your local times. All other details can be found at http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2016_03_24 - Donna Fritzsche and Michael Gruninger Chairs, Ontology Summit 2016 From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Fri Mar 25 23:44:49 2016 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 23:44:49 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] Third IAOA Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION In-Reply-To: <56F593C3.7050102@cnr.it> References: <56F593C3.7050102@cnr.it> Message-ID: <56F5BF61.60504@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> [distributed on request by Stefano Borgo] ISAO 2016 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) and the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data at Bozen-Bolzano are proud to announce the Third IAOA Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology June 27 - July 1, 2016 -- Bozen-Bolzano, Italy http://isao2016.inf.unibz.it Description ----------- World-class experts in different disciplines (Ontology Engineering, Conceptual Modeling, Knowledge Representation, Logic and Philosophy) will meet for a week with students, researchers and practitioners and present courses in complementary aspects of Applied Ontology. The summer school will be a full immersion experience in ontology, where lecturers engage in open discussions with each other as well as interact with the participants. The school will take place in Bozen-Bolzano, the beautiful capital city of South Tyrol, Italy, and is open to students, researchers and practitioners. http://isao2016.inf.unibz.it/?page_id=91 Previous summer schools were held in Vit?ria, Brazil http://iaoa.org/isao2014/ and in Trento, Italy http://iaoa.org/isao2012/ LIMITED Registration and Grants -------------------------------- Registration to the summer school is on a first-come first-served basis. We would like to highlight that the event will have a LIMITED NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS to ensure the quality of the interactions and the immersion experience. Check the registration page for further information and to register: http://isao2016.inf.unibz.it/?page_id=56 A limited number of grants will be provided by IAOA to partially cover participation costs on behalf of students. Applications for student grants should be sent exclusively by e-mail to ISAO2016 at unibz.it by 18th APRIL 2016. Further details can be found on the registration page. IAOA membership in general entitles to reduced registration fees. Program ------- The following lecturers are already confirmed: * Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (Description Logics and Temporal Extensions) * Gilberto Camara, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil (Geospatial Ontology) * Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK (Time and Processes) * Achille C. Varzi, Columbia University, New York, USA (Mereology) In addition to the courses, a number of shorter invited talks are expected. Organization ------------ International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) http://iaoa.org/ Research Centre on Knowledge and Data (KRDB) Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy http://www.inf.unibz.it/ Contact: ISAO2016 at unibz.it Website: http://iaoa.org/isao2016/ From gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Mon Mar 28 17:35:00 2016 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:35:00 -0400 Subject: [iaoa-general] Semantic Integration for Geographically Distributed Sensor and Control Systems (Ontology Summit 2016) Message-ID: <56F94F24.9050109@mie.utoronto.ca> A reminder of this week's session for Ontology Summit 2016: Semantic Integration for Geographically Distributed Sensor and Control Systems Session Chairs: Gary Berg-Cross and Ken Baclawski Speakers: * Steve Ray (Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley) Semantic Interoperability Issues for the Smart Grid * Marshall Ma (RPI) SEM+: a tool for concept mapping in geoscience * Torsten Hahmann (University of Maine) Integrating the Groundwater ML (GWML) into a Reference Hydro Ontology * Ronny Fehling (AirBus) Date: Thursday, 31-Mar-2016 Start Time: 9:30am PDT / 12:30pm EDT / 6:30pm CEST / 5:30pm BST / 1630 UTC http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=03&day=31&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_31 - Donna Fritzsche and Michael Gruninger Chairs, Ontology Summit 2016