From Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it Tue Jul 3 15:20:42 2018 From: Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it (Kutz Oliver) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 13:20:42 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] Fully funded PhD positions at Bolzano, Italy Message-ID: <1FFD2E56-C295-46DA-A539-0F0F904DBDEC@unibz.it> 9 Fully Funded PhD Positions in Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy 9 four-years fully funded PhD positions and 3 additional PhD positions without grant are offered by the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy for its PhD programme. Each grant amounts to 68,000?; for research visits abroad the grant increases up to 50%. Substantial extra funding (including a personal budget of 2,500? per year) is available for participation to international conferences, schools, workshops, and research visits. The language of the PhD program is English. The deadline for applications is the 9th of July, 2018. For more info, the call, and to submit applications please consult the following webpage: www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is located in one of the most fascinating European regions, the Dolomites. This young university has already established itself as an important research institution, both in Italy and abroad. According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018, the university is the 10th world?s best small university and it is the second best young Italian University. According to the same ranking, the Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is the third best Italian computer science department, and it is the best Italian computer science department for international outlook and for citations. One PhD grant on process mining is offered in collaboration with Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Trento under the supervision of Dr. Chiara Ghidini. The remaining 8 PhD grants and the 3 positions without grant are offered within the 3 Research Centres of the Faculty of Computer Science in Bolzano on the research topics listed below. Information and Database Systems Engineering (IDSE): * Spatial and temporal databases; * Processing data streams and time series data; * Approximation techniques in databases; * Query optimization in databases; * Data mining and machine learning for personalization; * Decision support and recommendation systems; * Human-centered computing; * Cooperative interfaces for information access and filtering; * Interaction design; * Edge computing architectures and platforms; * Image processing and computer vision; * Mathematical and scientific computing. If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in one of these topics and would like to discuss about the opportunities of this call, please get in contact with Prof. Johann Gamper. Knowledge and Data (KRDB): * Logic-based languages for knowledge representation; * Intelligent data access and integration; * Semantic technologies; * Conceptual and cognitive modelling; * Data-aware process modelling, verification, and synthesis; * Business process monitoring, mining, and conformance; * Temporal aspects of data and knowledge; * Extending database technologies; * Visual and verbal paradigms for information exploration; * Reasoning with uncertain and imprecise knowledge. If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in one of these topics and would like to discuss about the opportunities of this call, please get in contact with Prof. Diego Calvanese. Software and Systems Engineering (SwSE): * Empirical software engineering; * Mining software repositories; * Software reliability and testing; * automatic improvement and empirical investigation of software quality attributes; * Recommendation systems in software engineering; * Software system behavior; * Software evolution and maintenance; * Software visualization; * Agile and lean processes; * Lean startup and software startups; * IoT, edge and cloud computing; * Software architecture. If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in one of these topics and would like to discuss about the opportunities of this call, please get in contact with Prof. Claus Pahl. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it Fri Jul 6 14:13:44 2018 From: Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it (Kutz Oliver) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 12:13:44 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] FOIS 2018: call for registration Message-ID: <364D87E2-4990-4037-ADD4-FDB1D43665D5@unibz.it> =================================== The list of FOIS keynotes and talks is now available. Early registration deadline: July 15. ----------------------------------- 10th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) 2018, September 17-21, 2018, Cape Town, South Africa http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/ http://www.iaoa.org/fois/2018.html ----------------------------------- SCOPE The advent of complex information systems which rely on robust, coherent and formal representations of their subject matter, led in the last 25 years to the exploitation of ontological analysis and ontology-based representation. The systematic study of such representations, their axiomatics, their corresponding reasoning techniques and their relations to cognition and reality, are at the center of the modern discipline of formal ontology. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA, website: http://iaoa.org/), which is a non-profit organization aiming to promote 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. ----------------------------------- KEYNOTES Peter Simons, Trinity College Dublin and University of Salzburg Arianna Betti, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Alessandro Oltramari, Bosch Research and Technology Center, Pittsburgh ----------------------------------- FULL PAPERS Adrien Barton, Olivier Grenier, Ludger Jansen and Jean-Francois Ethier. The identity of dispositions Boyan Brodaric and Michael Gruninger. Particular Types and Particular Dependence Roberta Ferrario, Claudio Masolo and Daniele Porello. Organisations as complex variable embodiments Antony Galton. The Treatment of Time in Upper Ontologies Aldo Gangemi, Mehwish Alam and Valentina Presutti. Amnestic Forgery: an Ontology of Conceptual Metaphors Michael Gruninger, Bahar Aameri, Carmen Chui, Torsten Hahmann and Yi Ru. Foundational Ontologies for Units of Measure Torsten Hahmann. On Decomposition Operations in Multidimensional Qualitative Space Henriette Harmse, Katarina Britz and Aurona Gerber. Informative Armstrong RDF Datasets for n-ary Relations C. Maria Keet and Langa Khumalo. On the ontology of part-whole relations in Zulu language and culture Jo?o Rafael Moraes Nicola and Giancarlo Guizzardi. A formal characterization of individual determinancy and universal sortality in the Unified Foundational Ontology Claudio Masolo and Daniele Porello. A compact representation of complex concepts Claudio Masolo and Laure Vieu. Graph-Based Approaches to Structural Universals and Complex States of Affairs Joao Moreira, Luis Ferreira Pires, Marten van Sinderen and Laura M. Daniele. SAREF4health: IoT standard-based ontology-driven healthcare systems Tiago Prince Sales, Daniele Porello, Giancarlo Guizzardi, John Mylopoulos and Nicola Guarino. Ontological Foundations of Competition SHORT PAPERS Pawel Garbacz, Bogumi? Szady and Agnieszka ?awrynowicz. Identity criteria for localities Oliver Kutz, Nicolas Troquard, Maria Hedblom and Daniele Porello. The Mouse and the Ball: Towards a cognitively-based and ontologically-grounded logic of agency Alessandro Mosca, Fernando Roda and Guillem Rull. UNiCS: The ontology for Research and Innovation policy making Emilio Sanfilippo, Loic Jeanson, Farouk Belkadi, Florent Laroche and Alain Bernard. Nominal and actual qualities in ontologies for engineering Stefan Schulz and Ludger Jansen. Towards an ontology of religious and spiritual belief ----------------------------------- SATELLITE ACTIVITIES FOIS 2018 includes a number of additional activities: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=54 Notably: - JOWO Workshops and tutorials: http://www.iaoa.org/jowo2018/ - 4th International School on Applied Ontology: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/ - Early Career Symposium - Ontology Competition ----------------------------------- ORGANISATION General Chair: Oliver Kutz (KRDB, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Program Chairs: Stefano Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC CNR Trento IT) Pascal Hitzler (Data Semantics (DaSe) Laboratory, Wright State University, USA) Local Organization: Maria Keet (University of Cape Town, South Africa) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it Fri Jul 6 14:17:53 2018 From: Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it (Kutz Oliver) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 12:17:53 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] ISAO 2018 - Call for Participation Message-ID: ISAO 2018 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ****Early registration deadline: 15 July***** The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) and the University of Cape Town, South Africa are proud to announce the Fourth Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO) September 10-15, 2018 -- Cape Town, South Africa http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/ Description ----------- World-class experts in different disciplines (Applied Ontology, Biomedical Ontology, Logic and Philosophy, Conceptual Modeling, Semantic Technologies) will meet for a week with students, researchers and practitioners, to offer courses in complementary aspects of Applied Ontology. The school will be a full immersion experience in ontology, where lecturers engage in open discussions with each other, interact with the participants, and supervise micro-projects addressing Applied Ontology problems. ISAO will take place in the beautiful city of Cape Town, South Africa, and is open to students, researchers and practitioners. Previous schools were held in * 2016 - Bozen/Bolzano, Italy http://isao2016.inf.unibz.it/ * 2014 - Vitoria, Brazil http://iaoa.org/isao2014/ * 2012 - Trento, Italy http://iaoa.org/isao2012/ Program ------- The following lecturers are already confirmed: * Maureen Donnelly, University of Buffalo, New York, USA (Mereology, Location, and Time) * Stefan Schulz, Medical University of Graz, Austria (Biomedical Ontology) * Peter Simons, Trinity College Dublin and University of Salzburg * Arina Britz, Stellenbosch University, South Africa (First-order Logic and Description Logics) * Maria Keet, University of Cape Town, South Africa (Semantics and Conceptual Modelling) Registration ------------ Registration to the school is on a first-come first-served basis. Check the registration page for details: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/registration.html Reduced registration fees are available for IAOA members. For information on membership, benefits and how to join, please see: http://iaoa.org/membership/membership.html Organization ------------ International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) http://iaoa.org/ Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa https://www.cs.uct.ac.za/ General chair: Aldo Gangemi Programme chair: Antony Galton Local organisation: Maria Keet, with Zubeida Khan, Zola Mahlaza, and Michael Harrison Contact: Website: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/ General inquiries: aldo.gangemi at unibo.it local inquiries: mkeet at cs.uct.ac.za -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From radicion at di.unito.it Fri Jul 20 10:04:55 2018 From: radicion at di.unito.it (daniele radicioni) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:04:55 +0200 Subject: [iaoa-general] ***DEADLINE EXTENSION*** Special Issue of the Journal of Applied Ontology "Meaning in Context: ontologically and linguistically motivated representations of objects and events." Message-ID: (Apologies for cross posting) Special Issue of the Journal of Applied Ontology "Meaning in Context: ontologically and linguistically motivated representations of objects and events." ***DEADLINE EXTENSION*** New Manuscript Submission Deadline: August 5th 2018; https://submissions.iospress.com/applied-ontology/CIM Overview Dealing with context is a key factor in the conceptualization of human experience, and a major issue for understanding natural language. It is well known that some properties of objects and events may have different cognitive salience according to their context of occurrence, thus determining access to partial relevant information rather than to all information. One typical example is that of an orange being passed between two children, or the same orange peeled on a table: in the former case the roundness prevails over other traits, and the orange is being used to play; in the latter one, the edible features are those mostly conveyed by the scene. Interpreting events poses contextual challenges as well: (in how far) does a given event allow for different interpretations, like it might happen for revenge/self defense? Similar selectional mechanisms underlie figurative uses of word meanings, such as metonymy and metaphors among others, that intrinsically characterize the interface between knowledge and language. Contextual access to objects and events needs to be further investigated, shared conceptualizations and terminologies are needed, as well as more robust approaches, including connections to domain and formal ontologies. The design of ontological and linguistic resources that account for the semantic phenomena involved in the contextual interpretation of objects and events requires collecting information and devising context-aware procedures. In an era where most research is committed to statistical approaches, e.g. vector representations of the linguistic context and neural architectures, pairing the natural language semantic interpretation process and formal ontology may improve the inferential capacities of artificial agents with the explanatory power that is less relevant in those mainstream approaches. Methods traditionally adopted to elaborate text documents exhibit limitations in representing and processing objects and events. Many efforts are being put in grasping text documents? semantics based on semantically shallow approaches, whilst natural language inference demands for deep interpretation models, allowing to handle properties, functions, and roles, among others, to deal with commonsense and to produce explanations. A different approach relies on lexical information: several large-scale lexical resources, such as WordNet (https://wordnet.princeton.edu), BabelNet (http://babelnet.org), FrameNet (https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/fndrupal/), and ImagAct (http://imagact.lablita.it/index.php?lang=en), among others, have been proposed in the last few years and have been successfully employed to bridge the gap between knowledge representations and natural language. However, to cope with contextual access to objects and events involves many additional features still lacking in such resources. Neither shallow representations of NL semantics nor lexical resources alone provide sufficient ground to account for contextual phenomena. Relevant areas include, but are not limited to: events representation and retrieval, event sequences, contextual features representation, trend detection, knowledge discovery, word sense disambiguation, ontology alignment, opinion mining and sentiment analysis, and conceptual similarity, among others. All proposed approaches must address the issue of representation of context, and suitable procedures to use context and context aware meaning representations of objects and events. The ideal submission should provide evidence that context improves the performance of systems on real-world applications and/or provides useful insights and explanations on systems? output. Topics of Interest Research works submitted to the special issue should foster scientific advances whether and to what extent objects and events representation and processing can be linked to the context where they occur. The following is a tentative list of relevant topics: - theoretical foundations for the use of AI techniques to deal with context and with changing/evolving objects and events; - KR frameworks to represent mutable/evolving objects and events, including formal ontologies, conceptual spaces and distributed representations; - formal methods for reasoning in evolving scenarios; - theoretical, methodological, experimental, and application-oriented aspects of knowledge engineering and knowledge management centered on events and evolving objects; - use cases and application scenarios (e.g., in law, medicine) where contextual information impacts on objects/events representation and processing; - linguistic approaches to context analysis; - context-aware lexical resources to describe objects and events; - context-aware topic and event detection and tracking, knowledge discovery; - context-aware frame semantics; - entity linking and word sense disambiguation; - representation of context in the Semantic Web; - surveys on the adoption of contextual information in Cognitive Science, NLP and Ontological Modeling; - context-based explainable Artificial Intelligence. Timeline - Manuscript Submission Deadline: August 5th 2018; - Acceptance Notification: November 26th 2018; - Final Manuscript Due: February 26th 2019. Submission Guidelines Submission guidelines can be found on the Journal Site, https://www.iospress.nl/journal/applied-ontology/?tab=submission-of-manuscripts This special issue welcomes original high-quality contributions that have been neither published in nor submitted to any journals or refereed conferences. Extended versions of (properly referenced) conference papers should include at least 30% of new material. Please, clearly specify in the cover letter that the paper is to be considered for the special issue on "Meaning in Context: ontologically and linguistically motivated representations of objects and events." Guest Editors Valerio Basile, University of Turin, Italy, basile at di.unito.it Tommaso Caselli, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, t.caselli at rug.nl Daniele P. Radicioni, University of Turin, Italy, radicion at di.unito.it : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Daniele Radicioni, PhD Department of Computer Science University of Turin Corso Svizzera, 185 10149 - Torino phone: +39 011 6706802 fax: +39 011 751603 http://www.di.unito.it/~radicion