From gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Mon May 8 17:11:10 2017 From: gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca (Michael Gruninger) Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 11:11:10 -0400 Subject: [iaoa-general] Registration for IAOA Summer Institute 2017 Message-ID: Registration for the IAOA Summer Institute (August 8-11, 2017) is now open: http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/events/iaoa-summer-institute-2017/ Details about local logistics can be found at http://ontologforum.org/index.php/SummerInstitute2017/Logistics IAOA Summer Institute on Upper Ontologies http://ontologforum.org/index.php/SummerInstitute2017 Within the Applied Ontology community, upper ontologies are widely recognized as tools to support the tasks of ontology design and semantic integration. At the first Ontology Summit in 2006, the designers of several prominent upper ontologies were joined by key ontology technology participants, with the purpose of finding a means to relate the different ontologies to each other. In the decade since that meeting, the development and application of upper ontologies has continued, yet many challenges remain. The 2017 IAOA Summer Institute will explore the following topics: * What are the foundational choices and the practical motivations of present upper ontologies? * What is the range of concepts that should be covered in an upper ontology? * What are the relationships among upper ontologies? * How do we evaluate upper ontologies? * Using upper ontologies for semantic integration * Using upper ontologies for ontology design -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jpalmeida at ieee.org Mon May 8 19:48:46 2017 From: jpalmeida at ieee.org (Joao Paulo Almeida) Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 14:48:46 -0300 Subject: [iaoa-general] =?utf-8?q?VORTE_Workshop_in_Queb=C3=A9c=2C_Papers_?= =?utf-8?q?due_21_May?= Message-ID: Dear All, We have extended the deadline of the Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise (VORTE 2017) to 21 May. Note that short papers (4 pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or describing interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed are welcome, as well as full papers. See below for details. best regards, Jo?o Paulo A. Almeida also on behalf of Giancarlo Guizzardi and Michael Gruninger ------- CALL FOR PAPERS The 9th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise (VORTE 2017) Co-located with the 21th IEEE International EDOC Conference - The Enterprise Computing Conference Queb?c-City, Canada, 10th-13th October, 2017 *The best paper of VORTE 2017 will be fast-tracked for extension and publication at the Applied Ontology Journal (IOS Press)* http://edoc2017.ca/vorte-2017 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The VORTE series of workshops is devoted to the topics of vocabularies, ontologies and rules in the context of enterprise systems. Examples of topics covered by VORTE include the development and adaptation of foundational, business and domain ontologies for the enterprise, the use of ontologies and rules in all aspects of enterprise modeling such as business process management and services, the enhancement of rules and services with formal semantics, and the evaluation of such systems and approaches. >From the enterprise system development perspective, research topics are focused on relations of process modeling and execution languages with business ontologies and rules, and on how business ontologies and rules used in enterprise models are further propagated into technologies (e.g., linked data and semantic web) and architectures (e.g., service-oriented architectures) that enable collaboration between heterogeneous enterprise systems. The workshop also welcomes experience reports and empirical studies that are reporting on the use of ontologies and rules in the enterprise system development lifecycle. TOPICS Vocabularies and Ontologies for the enterprise: - Ontology-driven representation of products, services, functionalities, design, processes; - Ontologies for the know-how; - Ontologies for corporate knowledge; - Upper-level ontologies in the enterprise; - Adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations; Conceptual and Enterprise Modeling: - Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Meta-modeling - Ontology Design and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration; - Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments - Ontologies and Enterprise Architecture Modeling - Ontologies and Business Process Modeling - Ontologies and Goal-Based Modeling - Ontologies and Business Rules Enterprise Semantic Interoperability: - Web services, Semantic services - Composition and Modularity - Merging, Mapping and Alignment - Ontology Language Interoperability - Open linked data publishing and exploitation Knowledge management: - Ontology and ontological methodologies in knowledge management and integration; - Ontology engineering, learning and maintenance; - Ontology integration and alignment; - Ontology effectiveness and evaluation; Case studies and Evaluation: - Practical issues in using ontologies in enterprises - Real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business - From legacy systems to the new ontology-driven systems SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION We solicit two types of papers: - Short papers (4 pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or describing interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed; and - Full papers (8-10 pages) describing more mature results All submissions MUST conform to the two-column format of IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings ( https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) and include the author's name, affiliation, and contact details. Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2017 All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. The papers accepted for the EDOC 2017 Workshops will be published along with EDOC proceedings in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one of the authors for each accepted paper must register for the main conference and present their papers at the workshop. Post-conference Journal Publication The previous editions of VORTE resulted in the successful special issues published in journals such as Applied Ontology (2007), IJBPIM (2007), Elsevier's Information Systems (2008), Journal of Research Practice in Information Technology (2009), and Elsevier?s Information Systems (2010). The best paper of VORTE 2017 will be fast-tracked for extension and publication at the Applied Ontology Journal (IOS Press). IMPORTANT DATES Workshop Paper Submission: May 21, 2017 (Extended) Workshop Paper Notification: July 16, 2017 Workshop Camera Ready: August 6, 2017 COMMITTEES Workshop Chairs: - Jo?o Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil, jpalmeida at ieee.org - Giancarlo Guizzardi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, gguizzardi at gmail.com - Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada, gruninger at mie.utoronto.ca Program Committee: - Aldo Gangemi, University of Paris, France - Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway - Daniele Porello, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy - Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy - Fabian Neuhaus, University of Magdeburg, Germany - Fernanda Bai?o, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Florian Matthes, University of Munich, Germany - Frank Loebe, University of Leipzig, Germany - Frederik Gailly, Ghent University, Belgium - Geert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium - Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia - Hans Weigand, Faculty of Economics of Tilburg University, Netherlands - Leo Obrst, MITRE Corporation, USA - Lu?s Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Italy - Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy - Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain - Paul Johannesson, KTH, Sweden - Renata Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil - Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil - Roberta Ferrario, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Italy - Sergio de Cesare, Brunel University, UK - Stefano Borgo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We will hold a postmortem on this year's summit on Wednesday, 7 June 2017, from 12:30-13:30 EDT. Meeting details will be announced prior to the meeting. Todd Schneider From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Tue May 30 14:46:51 2017 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 14:46:51 +0200 Subject: [iaoa-general] JOWO 2017: 1st Call for Papers (Joint Ontology Workshops, Sep 21-23, Bolzano, Italy) Message-ID: <201705301246.v4UCktW2020313@isun.informatik.uni-leipzig.de> ---------------------------------- First Call for Papers ---------------------------------- Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2017) --- Episode 3: The Tyrolean Autumn --- Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, September 21-23, 2017 ---------------------------------- 10 Workshops on Ontology and its Applications http://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2017/ Submission deadlines are around July 15. See the individual workshop pages for precise dates. ---------------------------------- The Joint Ontology Workshops' (JOWO) mission is to join forces of the diverse communities interested in building, reasoning with, and applying formalised ontologies in the wide spectrum of information sciences, artificial intelligence theory and applications, philosophy and cognitive science, and beyond. This third edition of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2017) combines ten ontology-centered workshops covering a multitude of disciplines into an exciting joint event. ---------------------------------- WORKSHOPS - CREOL: Contextual Representation of Objects and Events in Language - DAO: Data meets Applied Ontology - DEW: Ontology Debugging & Evaluation Workshop - EPINON: Epistemology in Ontologies - FOMI: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry - FOUST II: 2nd Workshop on Foundational Ontology - ISD3: The 3rd Image Schema Day - ODLS: Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences - SHAPES 4.0: The Shape of Things - WINKS: Workshop on Interaction-Based Knowledge Sharing See below for a description of the workshops and http://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2017/workshops.html for links to detailed calls for papers. ---------------------------------- KEYNOTES * Todd Oakley (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA) "What We Think About When We Talk About Money: Social Ontology and the Amalgamated Mind" (further invitations pending) JOWO 2017 is supported by the International Association for Ontology and its Applications - IAOA (http://iaoa.org). It features a series of (shared) invited talks, paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, and discussions spread across ten workshops. ---------------------------------- 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 open-access at CEUR. For additional publication plans, check the individual workshops. For previous proceedings, compare: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1517/ for JOWO 2015, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1660/ for JOWO 2016. ---------------------------------- WORKSHOP DETAILS ================================== CREOL Website: http://creol2017.di.unito.it/ Contextual Representation of Objects and Events in Language ================================== Organisers: Valerio Basile, Tommaso Caselli, Daniele P. Radicioni The CREOL workshop is focused on investigating the relationship between representations of objects and events in ontological and linguistic resources, and their interpretation in the context of occurrence. Different properties of objects and events are activated depending on context, thus determining access to partial, salient, information rather than to all. Hence, dealing with context is a key factor in the conceptualization of human experience, and a major challenge for understanding natural language. ================================== DAO Website: https://smart.inf.unibz.it/index.php/2017/05/15/dao2017/ Data meets Applied Ontology ================================== Organisers: Roberto Confalonieri, Andrea Janes, Diego Calvanese The goal of the DAO workshop is to provide opportunities for participants from academia and industry to present their latest developments in ontology-mediated data integration and analysis techniques, and data-driven industrial applications. The workshop will be a great opportunity to synthesize new insights, and disseminate knowledge across field boundaries to promote the interaction between these two different communities. ================================== DEW Website: http://iaoa.org/jowo/dew2017/ Ontology Debugging & Evaluation Workshop ================================== Organisers: Rafael Penaloza, Amanda Vizedom DEW (the Debugging and Evaluation Workshop @ JOWO) aims to advance ontology evaluation and the detection, understanding, and correction of errors in ontologies and ontological knowledge bases. We encourage submissions from all areas dealing with ontological knowledge, and hope to gain a broad perspective on evaluation methods, and debugging techniques over different formalisms. ================================== EPINON Website: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/epinon2017/home.html Epistemology in Ontologies ================================== Organisers: Daniele Porello, Antonio Lieto, Claudio Masolo Formal ontologies and knowledge representation mainly focus on characterising how a given domain is structured, i.e., they identify a set of concepts, entities, and relations together with the constraints that hold for this domain. The characterisation is usually intended to reflect the point of view of significant experts or a realist view of how things about a particular domain are in reality. The aim of this workshop is to explore an epistemological stance and focus on the assessment of the modelling provided by the ontology designer. We aim to address to an interdisciplinary audience, by inviting scholars in philosophy, computer science, logic, conceptual modelling, knowledge representation, and cognitive science to contribute to the discussion. ================================== FOMI Website: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/FOMI2017/home.html 8th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies meet Industry ================================== Organisers: Emilio M. Sanfilippo, Laura Daniele, Giorgio Colombo FOMI is an international forum where academic researchers and practitioners meet to analyse and discuss theoretical and application issues related to the use of formal ontologies in industry. The Workshop aims to collect lessons learned by the presentation of (1) experience with problems in ontology application, (2) new insights on problematic issues, (3) new results, successes and observations in ontology implementation, (4) lessons learned on the best way to apply ontological methodologies to real-world situations. ================================== FOUST II Website: http://foust.inf.unibz.it/foust2/ 2nd Workshop on Foundational Ontology ================================== Organisers: Antony Galton, Fabian Neuhaus Foundational ontologies are attempts to systematise those categories of thought or reality which are common to all or almost all subject-matters. Commonly considered examples of such categories include 'object', 'quality', 'function', 'role', 'process', 'event', 'time', and 'place'. Amongst existing foundational ontologies, there is both a substantial measure of agreement and some dramatic disagreements. There is currently no uniform consensus concerning how a foundational ontology should be organised, how far its 'reach' should be (e.g., is the distinction between physical and non-physical entities sufficiently fundamental to be included here?), and even what role it should play in relation to more specialised domain ontologies. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present work on specific foundational ontologies as well as foundational ontologies in general and their relations to each other and to the wider ontological enterprise. ================================== ISD3 Website: http://isd.inf.unibz.it The 3rd Image Schema Day ================================== Organisers: Maria M. Hedblom, Mihailo Antovic, Oliver Kutz The Image Schema Day III (ISD3) is intended as an interdisciplinary meeting place for researchers interested in image schemas and similar conceptual primitives. Originating in cognitive linguistics, image schemas are thought to be the conceptual building blocks learned from the body's sensorimotor processes in early infancy that come to shape adult language and thought. Today, image schemas are becoming increasingly influential in artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and qualitative reasoning. At ISD3 we welcome researchers from all disciplines interested in pushing the boundaries of understanding, formalising, and reasoning with image schemas. ================================== ODLS Website: https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Gruppen/OBML/Workshops/2017-ODLS Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences ================================== Organisers: Martin Boeker, Heinrich Herre, Ludger Jansen, Frank Loebe, Daniel Schober Medicine, biology and life sciences produce hardly manageable and comprehensible amounts of data, information, and knowledge, thereby challenging existing methods of knowledge representation, data bases, and data analysis. This interdisciplinary workshop covers the overall spectrum of biomedical information processing, from experimental data acquisition and data management, across analysis, structuring and interpretation of data, up to the development of ontologies with their various applications. The workshop aims at gathering scientists that work in these fields in order to exchange ideas, to discuss new results and to inspire collaborations. ================================== SHAPES 4.0 Website: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/SHAPES4/ The Shape of Things ================================== Organisers: Rossella Stufano Melone, Inge Hinterwaldner, Stefano Borgo, Oliver Kutz, Kris Krois The SHAPES 4.0 workshop is an interdisciplinary event for the discussion of all topics connected to shape and pattern (broadly understood). We seek to facilitate an interdisciplinary discussion between researchers, practitioners and artists from all disciplines interested in representing shape, form, structure and pattern, and reasoning about them. ================================== WINKS Website: http://www.iiia.csic.es/winks/ Workshop on Interaction-Based Knowledge Sharing ================================== Organisers: Jerome Euzenat, Dagmar Gromann, Kemo Adrian WINKS is a workshop that is fully dedicated to challenges and solutions to knowledge sharing in interaction-based environments, ranging from the Internet of Things to multi-agent systems. Gradually expanding, distributed systems heighten the need of a dynamic interactive knowledge sharing process, while at the same time an increasing heterogeneity of resources renders this process more complex. As a highly interdisciplinary workshop, discussions will center on requirements and suggestions to endow computational models with knowledge sharing capabilities in interactive scenarios. ================================== ---------------------------------- JOWO General Chairs | Contact Stefano Borgo (LOA ISTC CNR, Trento, Italy) Oliver Kutz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany) Fabian Neuhaus (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany) Contact: jowo.steering at gmail.com