From Guendalina.Righetti at stud-inf.unibz.it Tue Jun 1 08:50:20 2021 From: Guendalina.Righetti at stud-inf.unibz.it (Righetti Guendalina (Student Com18)) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2021 06:50:20 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] FOIS Workshops 2021 - Call for Submissions Message-ID: The Joint Ontology Workshops - JOWO 2021 https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2021/ In conjunction with FOIS 2021 online and hybrid (in Bolzano, Italy) --- JOWO 2021 invites submissions to six featured workshops: - CAOS V: Cognition And OntologieS - FOMI 2021: Workshop on Formal Ontology meets Industry - FOUST V: Workshop on Foundational Ontology - OntoCom 2021: Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modelling - ROBONTICS 2021: Ontologies for Autonomous Robotics - SoLEE 2021: Ontology of Social, Legal and Economic Entities Workshop overview: https://fois2021.inf.unibz.it/accepted-workshops-and-tutorials/ The tentative deadline for submissions is: July 3, 2021 Please refer to the individual workshops for detailed submission instructions and any deadlines changes. All workshops will take place between September 11 and 18, 2021, either as hybrid or fully virtual events.The scientific programs are independently established by the workshop organizers. Together, the JOWO workshops address a wide spectrum of topics related to ontology research, ranging from Cognitive Science to Knowledge Representation, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics. The workshop organizers also make decisions on the specifics of the workshop format (hybrid or fully virtual). --- The FOIS 2021 workshops chairs Claudio Masolo Torsten Hahmann -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ludger.jansen at uni-rostock.de Wed Jun 2 13:44:06 2021 From: ludger.jansen at uni-rostock.de (Ludger Jansen) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 13:44:06 +0200 Subject: [iaoa-general] CfP Social, Legal and Economic Entities (SoLEE), September 2021 Message-ID: <2798a226-d3ca-09db-ca57-818dd477e0d3@uni-rostock.de> CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Workshop on Ontology of Social, Legal and Economic Entities SoLEE 2021 Understanding the ontological nature of social, legal, and economic concepts and institutions is crucial for providing principled modeling in many important domains such as enterprise modeling, business processes, and social ontology. A significant number of fundamental concepts that are ubiquitous in economics, social, and legal sciences - such as value, risk, capability, good, service, exchange, transaction, competition, trust, social norm, group, institution - have only recently been approached from a specifically ontological perspective. It is therefore important to offer a venue to gather the recent contributions to this topic. The workshop encourages submissions on both theoretical and methodological issues in the use of ontologies for modeling social, legal, and economic concepts and institutions, as well as submissions on concrete use of ontologies in application for these domains. We intend to broaden the focus in order to explore the emerging question of how to deal with social entities in general, and to connect well-established domains like biomedicine and business ontologies in this respect. The workshop is intended to serve as a meeting point for stakeholders from applied ontology and the respective domain disciplines. Topics of interest include but are not restricted to: * Ontology of social, legal, and economic concepts - e.g., groups, norms, cooperation, competition, economic and legal agent, utility, money, risk, rationality, market, etc. * Extensions of foundational ontologies to include social, legal, and economic institutions. * Knowledge representation involving social, legal and economic entities. * Methodological issues in representing social legal, and economic concepts. * Formal languages for economics, logics for modeling economic, social, and legal concepts. * Social and legal norms - in social, legal, and economic environments. * Social, legal, and economic roles and responsibilities of/within collective entities like organizations, companies, enterprises, social groups, customers, corporate agents, institutions. * Decision procedures in groups, organizations, and institutions. * Value, value ascription, value production, value (co-)creation. * Enterprise modeling: capabilities, strategy, marketing, accounting. * Finance and markets. * Services, service science, product-service systems. * Business ontology and business process modeling. Workshop organizers * PD Dr. Ludger Jansen, Universtity of Münster, Germany, and University of Rostock, Germany * Dr. Mathias Brochhausen, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, United States * Dr. Giancarlo Guizzardi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, and University of Twente, The Netherlands * Dr. Daniele Porello, University of Genova, Italy On JOWO SoLEE is part of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO). JOWO is a venue of workshops that, together, address a wide spectrum of topics related to ontology research, ranging from Cognitive Science to Knowledge Representation, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics. SoLEE Webpage: https://soleeworkshop.wordpress.com/ JOWO 2021 Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2021/ FOIS 2021 Workshops and Tutorials Page: https://fois2021.inf.unibz.it/accepted-workshops-and-tutorials/ JOWO 2021 will be held in September in conjunction with  BOSK II: the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge 2021: https://summerofknowledge.inf.unibz.it/ Submission Guidelines Papers should be between 5 and 10 pages long and be formatted according to the CEUR-Art latex template in  one-column mode as available at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip Papers should be uploaded in PDF format via Easy Chair. Make sure to submit your paper to the track "Social, Legal and Economic Entities": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2021 Accepted papers and abstracts will be published by CEUR workshop proceedings. Important Dates * Unified paper submission deadline: July 3rd, 2021 * Paper notifications: August 9th, 2021 * Camera-ready papers due (firm deadline): August 23rd, 2021 * SoLEE at JOWO-FOIS 2021: September 2021 (1-2 days, depending on submissions) Depending on the COVID situation, SoLEE will be organised in a hybrid or virtual form. -- PD Dr. Ludger Jansen Institut für Philosophie Universität Rostock D-18051 Rostock From Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it Sun Jun 6 11:49:18 2021 From: Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it (Kutz Oliver) Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 09:49:18 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] CFP: 3rd Int. Workshop on Data meets Applied Ontologies in Explainable Artificial Intelligence. DAO-XAI @ BAKS 2021 Message-ID: <0570A770-14C5-4A72-90A5-E1074E8CDB99@unibz.it> CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Workshop on Data meets Applied Ontologies in Explainable Artificial Intelligence DAO-XAI @ BAKS 2021 18 September 2021 https://daoxai.inf.unibz.it/ * The Workshop is held as Part of the Bratislava Knowledge September, BAKS 2021, 14-24 September 2021, Bratislava, Slovakia * https://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/baks2021/ * Special issue on "The Role of Ontologies and Knowledge in Explainable AI" to be published in the Semantic Web journal * http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-papers-special-issue-role-ontologies-and-knowledge-explainable-ai https://sites.google.com/view/special-issue-on-xai-swj *Content* The 3rd edition of the Data meets Applied Ontologies Workshop series will take place as a bridge event between the 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2021) and the 34th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2021), two venues with a long tradition of research contributions related to sub-symbolic and symbolic reasoning respectively. To this end, the 3rd edition of the Data meets Applied Ontologies Workshop will focus on the integration of sub-symbolic and symbolic reasoning, particularly, on the role played by explicit and formal knowledge, such as ontologies, knowledge graphs, knowledge bases, etc., in Explainable Artificial Intelligence. We welcome the submission of original contributions, investigating novel methodologies that integrate sub-symbolic and symbolic reasoning to build transparent and scrutable AI systems, and algorithms for the design of Trustworthy and Explainable decision support systems. We welcome the submission of original contributions, in the form of theoretical contributions, discussion papers, experimental contributions, system and demo descriptions of applications that make use of explicit and formal knowledge to enhance the explainability and trustworthiness of decision systems, including - but not limited to - the following topics of interest: *Neural-symbolic Learning and Reasoning* - Cognitive computational systems integrating machine learning and automated reasoning - Knowledge representation and reasoning in machine learning and deep learning - Knowledge extraction and distillation from neural and statistical learning models - Representation and refinement of symbolic knowledge by artificial neural networks *Human-centered Explanations, Usability* - Explanation formats exploiting domain knowledge - Visual exploratory tools of semantic explanations - Knowledge representation for human-centric explanations - Usability and acceptance of knowledge-enhanced semantic explanations - Evaluation of transparency and interpretability of AI Systems *Applications of Ontologies for Explainability and Trustworthiness in Specific Domains* - Life sciences, health - Biomedicine - Humanities and social sciences - eGovernment *Submission Guidelines* We accept submissions (in CEUR WS format) of the following types: - Regular paper (max 12p + references) - Short/Position paper (max 6p + references) - Abstract (max 2p + references) - not included in the proceedings All submitted papers will be evaluated based on originality, significance, relevance and technical quality. Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format following the CEUR-WS single column formatting guidelines found at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/ The direct template download for Latex and MS Word is available here: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip There is also an Overleaf Template available here: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/hpvjjzhjxzjk Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=daoxai2021 Accepted papers will be published in a proceedings volume in the IAOA series of CEUR-WS (http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html). Please notice that due to a change of policy at CEUR-WS.org, abstracts are no longer indexed by dblp.org and cannot be included in the proceedings. They will be accepted for *oral presentation only*. Authors who require a visa to travel to Slovakia and for this reason think that they need to receive notification earlier than 23 July may send an e-mail to roberto.confalonieri at unibz.it, including the submission number of the paper and a statement explaining the circumstances that require an earlier notification. *Special Issue* Extended versions of a selection of the papers presented at the workshop will be invited to be submitted to a Special Issue on 'The Role of Ontologies and Knowledge in Explainable AI' https://sites.google.com/view/special-issue-on-xai-swj to be published in the Semantic Web Journal (http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/). *Important Dates (Extended)* - July 05-10, 2021: Abstract registration - July 16, 2021: Paper submission deadline - July 31, 2021: Fast-track notification - August 13, 2021: Notification to authors - September 3, 2021: Camera-ready copies - September 18-19, 2021: DAO-XAI workshop *Invited Speakers* We will have as keynote speaker Luciano Serafini, a world-wide expert in logics for knowledge representation and reasoning, ontologies, and their integration with sub-symbolic reasoning and learning. *Organization* - Roberto Confalonieri - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Oliver Kutz - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Diego Calvanese - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Alessandro Mosca - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano *Contacts* roberto.confalonieri at unibz.it From maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com Mon Jun 14 17:15:17 2021 From: maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com (Maria Hedblom) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 17:15:17 +0200 Subject: [iaoa-general] 2nd CfP - Showcase track - FOIS 2021, September 13-16, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Message-ID: *Call for Ontology Showcase* The 12th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2021), 13-16 September 2021 https://fois2021.inf.unibz.it *The Ontology Showcase Chairs invite submissions to be delivered as part of FOIS 2021.* The FOIS conference is a leading event in ontology engineering. FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication, inclusive of many domains engaging with applied formal ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, as well as the Semantic Web. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: http://iaoa.org/ ), a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology. FOIS 2021 is planned as a hybrid event: there will be a physical meeting in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, with a remote participation option. Accordingly, demonstrations may be delivered either virtually or in a hybrid fashion. Ontology Showcase Scope As the Applied Ontology community, we have reached the point where an impressive variety of ontologies have been developed across a wide range of domains. For the most part, however, there has been a lack of coordination among these efforts and even a lack of awareness about the work that is being done by groups within the community. How can we best support ontology repositories so that curated ontologies are findable and accessible? What are the barriers to sharability and reusability that still exist? The Ontology Showcase at FOIS 2021 will be the venue that facilitates the sharing and reuse of ontologies, with the goal of achieving the vision of seamless semantic interoperability of curated ontologies within their applications. Submissions should follow the scope and evaluation criteria for the main track for FOIS, giving an overview of the ontology and its application. In particular, submissions should address the following questions: - What is the domain of the ontology? - How is the ontology being used? e.g. search, question answering, semantic integration - What datasets are used in these applications? - What other ontologies are reused? - Are there other ontologies within the same domain? - What are the competency questions used for the design and evaluation of the ontology? The axiomatization of the ontology should be available on the Web. Submission length: 6 pages (maximum). Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format in compliance with the new 1-column CEUR-ART Style, which can be found at https://ceurws.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/ceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-style/ The Easychair submission page can be found at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2021 (select the track: FOIS Ontology Showcase) Important Dates: 3 July 2021 - Submission deadline. 9 August 2021 - Notification of acceptance. 23 August 2021 - Camera-ready version. 13 - 16 September 2021 - FOIS Conference -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com Tue Jun 15 19:19:57 2021 From: maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com (Maria Hedblom) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 19:19:57 +0200 Subject: [iaoa-general] 2nd CfP - CAOS: Cognition And OntologieS @FOIS - September - Bolzano, Italy Message-ID: (We apologise for possible cross postings) CAOS 2021 - Call for Papers Cognition And OntologieS in conjunction with FOIS held September 11-18 in Bolzano, Italy (hybrid event) https://caos.inf.unibz.it The purpose of the workshop is to bridge the gap between the cognitive sciences and research on ontologies and, thus, to create a venue for researchers interested in interdisciplinary aspects of knowledge representation. More specifically CAOS investigates how key cognitive phenomena and concepts (and the involved terminology) can be found across language, psychology and reasoning and how they can be formally and ontologically understood and analysed. It moreover seeks answers to ways such formalisations and ontological analysis can be exploited in Artificial Intelligence and information systems in general. We welcome submissions on topics related to the ontology of hypothesized building blocks of cognition (such as image schemas, affordances, categories, and related notions) and of cognitive capacities (such as concept invention, language acquisition and categorisation), as well as system demonstrations modelling these capacities in application settings. We also welcome submissions addressing the cognitive and epistemological adequacy of ontological modelling. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Modelling cognitive phenomena: - Language acquisition - Formalisation / modelling of language - Embodied cognition - Concept invention - AI for language understanding - Image schemas / affordances for AI - Knowledge acquisition in AI and Robotics - Natural language applications / system-demonstrations Epistemological and cognitive foundation of ontologies: - Cognitive foundations of ontologies and ontologies of cognitive theories (e.g. connection with conceptual spaces, diagrammatic representations, mental models, prototypes, image schemas, scripts etc.). - Empirical foundations of ontologies: ontologies driven from observations, measurements, tests, and in general from data acquired using empirical procedures. - Representation of different perspectives on the same domain: contexts, granularity, resolution, ontological levels. - Quantitative approaches/analyses, probabilities, uncertainty, and ontologies. - Neural networks and ontological modelling. - Integration of ontologies with different formats and levels of representation (e.g. neural-symbolic integration). - Inductive reasoning in ontologies. - Ontological Extensions of Cognitive Architectures. We welcome researchers from all career stages to participate. Work in progress (short papers) are also welcome since a central goal of the workshop is the discussion of ongoing interdisciplinary work. All papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other workshop, conference or journal. Note, that for inclusion in the JOWO proceedings, short and position papers are required to be at least 5 pages long. All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and the review process will be managed in a collaborative and transparent manner using the EasyChair System as part of the JOWO organisation. Submissions Submission deadline: July 3, 2021 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2021 (select the track “Cognition And OntologieS”) *Details and instructions:* We encourage three types of contributions: Full research paper: Submitted papers must not exceed 14 pages (excluding the bibliography). Please note that the minimum length is 10 pages. Short paper: Submitted papers must not exceed 7 pages (excluding the bibliography). Please note that the minimum length is 5 pages. *Abstracts for presentation:* 2-4 page abstracts for presentation. Note that these will *not* be included in the proceedings. Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format in compliance with the new 1-column CEUR-ART Style. Word and Latex templates can be found at https://ceurws.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/ceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-style/ All contributions to JOWO workshops will be published in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, compare: JOWO 2020: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2708/ JOWO 2019: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2518/ JOWO 2018: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2205/ Workshop policy CAOS 2021 is planned as a hybrid event. Hence, there will be a physical meeting in Bolzano which hopefully most will be able to join. However, given the uncertainty about travel in September, we will make arrangements for remote participation. If the physical meeting cannot be held due to social restrictions, the workshop will go fully virtual. Organisation Maria M. Hedblom : University of Bremen, Germany. Oliver Kutz : Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Guendalina Righetti : Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy *Program Committee* *(as of yet)* Michael Verdonck, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel Tony Veale, Dublin, University College Dublin Sanju Tiwari, Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas Ana Tanevska, Italian Institute of Technology Marco Schorlemmer, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA-CSIC Daniele Porello, University of Genova Ana-Maria Olteteanu, Freie Universität Berlin Antonio Lieto, University of Turin Gabriele Kern-Isberner, University of Dortmund Karl Hammar, Jönköping University Roberta Ferrario, CNR Italy João Miguel Cunha, University of Coimbra Daniel Beßler, University of Bremen Brandon Bennett, University of Leeds Lucas Bechberger, Osnabrück University Taisuke Akimoto, Kyushu Institute of Technology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calvanese at inf.unibz.it Mon Jun 21 07:52:30 2021 From: calvanese at inf.unibz.it (Calvanese Diego) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 05:52:30 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] =?iso-8859-1?q?Postdoc_positions_in_AI_for_Data_M?= =?iso-8859-1?q?anagement_at_Ume=E5_University=2C_Sweden_-_Deadline_30_Jun?= =?iso-8859-1?q?e_2021?= Message-ID: <729092FC-EF93-4FAE-A6FA-36B16CE0CC09@inf.unibz.it> Postdoc positions at Umea University (Sweden) in "AI for Data Management". Application deadline: 30 June 2021 [Please forward to interested parties!] Postdoc positions are available at the Dept. of Computing Science at Umea University (Umea, Sweden), within the research group on "Artificial Intelligence for Data Management" led by prof. Diego Calvanese. (This is part of a larger call aimed at filling in total 4 PhD and 4 Postdoc positions.) We invite highly motivated applicants interested in carrying out foundational and/or applied research in the context of flexible and efficient management of large amounts of richly structured data, by relying on semantic technologies and (virtual) knowledge graphs. The research in the "AI for Data Management" group touches and combines the areas of: - Knowledge Representation (e.g., Description Logics, OWL, Rule-based Languages) - Knowledge Graphs and Graph Structured Data - Semantic Web - Reasoning about Actions and Change - Databases - Artificial Intelligence The research initiative is part of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), Sweden's largest individual research program ever, a major national initiative for strategically motivated basic research, education and faculty recruitment, addressing research on artificial intelligence and autonomous systems. See https://wasp-sweden.org/. The Postdoc positions are for 2 years, but funding is already available to extend them for further two years. Additional funding is available for travel. For more details and for applying, see https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/postdoctoral-scholarships/6-1250-21/ Application deadline is 30 June 2021. For more information, contact Diego Calvanese . See also https://wasp-sweden.org/research/wasp-recruited-faculty/