From emiliosanfilippo at gmail.com Wed Nov 3 12:57:29 2021 From: emiliosanfilippo at gmail.com (Emilio Sanfilippo) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2021 12:57:29 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] First ESAO Webinar Message-ID: First ESAO Webinar November 9th, 11:00-12:00 EST, 17:00-18:00 CET Description ----------- The IAOA [1] has created the Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [2], a new educational effort directed towards topics of Applied Ontology, primarily established basics and foundations. The series is inspired by the Interdisciplinary Schools on Applied Ontology (ISAO) (whose next edition will be in 2023 [3]). ESAO is complementary in format and its overall approach. The goal is to provide a combination of archive educational material (e.g. short video lectures) and a series of webinars for presenting and discussing that material. The ESAO Series is open for all and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike. The launch event for this new series [4] was held at the second Bolzano Summer of Knowledge (BoSK 2021), with seven webinar sessions according to the new format on a single day.     --> The first of the regular webinar sessions will be held on         November 9th, 11:00-12:00 EST, 17:00-18:00 CET, online.         No registration needed, the Zoom link will be published soon. Program ------- * 11:00-11:30 EST, 17:00-17:30 CET Adrien Barton, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) - CNRS, France "Ontological realism: A philosophical overview" Abstract: Some applied ontologies explicitly adhere to a position named “ontological realism”. In this presentation, I will locate “ontological realism” within the landscape of the various forms of realism that have been proposed in metaphysics and philosophy of science, among which Platonic realism, Aristotelian realism, scientific realism, entity realism and structural realism. * 11:30-12:00 EST, 17:30-18:00 CET Lars Vogt, Leibniz Information Center for Science & Technology (TIB), Germany "Boundaries and natural units" Abstract: I will present the concept of bona fide and fiat boundaries and review the problems involved with this approach for demarcating natural units, with examples from the life sciences, focussing on issues revolving around granularity and frames of reference. I will then introduce an alternative approach that focusses on the concept of causal unity. Organization ------------ Members of the Education Technical Committee of IAOA [5] and among those primarily (in alphabetical order): * Oliver Kutz * Frank Loebe * Sandra Lovrenčić * Daniele Porello * Robert Rovetto * Cassia Trojahn * Laure Vieu Contact E-Mail: info at iaoa.org [1] IAOA website http://iaoa.org/ [2] Educational Series on Applied Ontology https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO [3] ISAO History page https://iaoa.org/index.php/isao-history/ [4] ESAO Launch Day website https://esao2021.inf.unibz.it/ [5] Education Technical Committee wiki https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:Home From maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com Thu Nov 4 14:20:14 2021 From: maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com (Maria Hedblom) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 14:20:14 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] =?utf-8?q?1st_CfP=3A_the_6th_Image_Schema_Day=2C_?= =?utf-8?b?SmFudWFyeSAyMDIyLCBKw7Zua8O2cGluZywgU1dF?= Message-ID: *Call for papers and participation!* The Sixth Image Schema Day Workshop on the 20-21 of January, 2022 On-site at Jönköping University, Sweden https://imageschema.net/image-schema-day After two years of hibernation, we are happy to announce that the Image Schema Day (ISD6) is returning in its sixth reincarnation: at a new venue, with new research, but with the same purpose. In broad terms, image schemas are spatiotemporal relationships between objects and agents that are learned in early infancy such as containment, support and linkage. These relationships are hypothesised to construct the information skeleton found in object affordances, linguistic and artistic metaphors, the conceptualisation of event segmentation and analogical reasoning. Traditionally studied in cognitive linguistics, these abstract patterns gained increased interest to solve some of the semantic grounding issues in AI and cognitive robotics, but are also a familiar sight in interaction design, art and literary analysis, developmental psychology, and gesture interpretation, to name but a few. To offer a platform to discuss this topic across the disciplines, the workshop* The Image Schema Day *was born in 2015, and so far, it gathered researchers on five different occasions. The workshop is primarily a networking event that invites researchers on image schemas and related notions from a broad range of scientific disciplines to present their research and discuss ideas for future projects. Unlike many other workshops focused on different topics in one discipline or using one methodology, the ISD6 invites researchers from all disciplines and methodologies but focuses on one topic. For the first time organised outside of Italy, the event will be held fully on-site in the beautiful 1850's villa Mariedal that, since its renovation, features as Jönköping University's representation venue. Jönköping is a mid-sized town beautifully located between several lakes, tucked in the deep Swedish forests and hilly-mountains. If we are lucky, January might treat us to some white snow as well! The workshop accepts three forms of *submissions with deadline December 10 *(more information can be found on the website): - Abstracts for presentation (2 pages) - (*NOTE*: *not included in the proceedings.*) - Extended abstracts (5 pages) of either preliminary work and ideas or summaries of previously published articles. - Research papers (5-10 pages) discussing novel research not published (or under review) at another venue. Topics of interests with (the broadest of interpretation of) an image-schematic focus include, but are not limited to: - conceptual metaphors - affordances - spatiotemporal reasoning - force dynamics - conceptual modelling - embodied and spatial cognition - general artificial intelligence - commonsense reasoning - analogical reasoning - cognitive robotics - interface design - art and literature analysis All submissions will be peer-reviewed by a highly diverse PC and accepted contributions will be included in the ISD6 proceedings (either as a standalone volume or as part of the Joint Ontology Workshops JOWO - held later in 2022). Submitted abstracts will have a chance to turn their contributions into full research papers after the workshop. Papers that are accepted after a second round of reviewing will be included in the proceeding. Please share this invitation with colleagues and students that you think might be interested and consider joining us this January! 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We look forward to meeting you tomorrow! -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: First ESAO Webinar Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2021 12:57:29 +0100 From: Emilio Sanfilippo To: iaoa-general at ovgu.de First ESAO Webinar November 9th, 11:00-12:00 EST, 17:00-18:00 CET Description ----------- The IAOA [1] has created the Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [2], a new educational effort directed towards topics of Applied Ontology, primarily established basics and foundations. The series is inspired by the Interdisciplinary Schools on Applied Ontology (ISAO) (whose next edition will be in 2023 [3]). ESAO is complementary in format and its overall approach. The goal is to provide a combination of archive educational material (e.g. short video lectures) and a series of webinars for presenting and discussing that material. The ESAO Series is open for all and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike. The launch event for this new series [4] was held at the second Bolzano Summer of Knowledge (BoSK 2021), with seven webinar sessions according to the new format on a single day.     --> The first of the regular webinar sessions will be held on         November 9th, 11:00-12:00 EST, 17:00-18:00 CET, online.         No registration needed, the Zoom link will be published soon. Program ------- * 11:00-11:30 EST, 17:00-17:30 CET Adrien Barton, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) - CNRS, France "Ontological realism: A philosophical overview" Abstract: Some applied ontologies explicitly adhere to a position named “ontological realism”. In this presentation, I will locate “ontological realism” within the landscape of the various forms of realism that have been proposed in metaphysics and philosophy of science, among which Platonic realism, Aristotelian realism, scientific realism, entity realism and structural realism. * 11:30-12:00 EST, 17:30-18:00 CET Lars Vogt, Leibniz Information Center for Science & Technology (TIB), Germany "Boundaries and natural units" Abstract: I will present the concept of bona fide and fiat boundaries and review the problems involved with this approach for demarcating natural units, with examples from the life sciences, focussing on issues revolving around granularity and frames of reference. I will then introduce an alternative approach that focusses on the concept of causal unity. Organization ------------ Members of the Education Technical Committee of IAOA [5] and among those primarily (in alphabetical order): * Oliver Kutz * Frank Loebe * Sandra Lovrenčić * Daniele Porello * Robert Rovetto * Cassia Trojahn * Laure Vieu Contact E-Mail: info at iaoa.org [1] IAOA website http://iaoa.org/ [2] Educational Series on Applied Ontology https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO [3] ISAO History page https://iaoa.org/index.php/isao-history/ [4] ESAO Launch Day website https://esao2021.inf.unibz.it/ [5] Education Technical Committee wiki https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:Home -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com Mon Nov 8 16:24:55 2021 From: maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com (Maria Hedblom) Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 16:24:55 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] 1st CFP - 13th Int. Conf. on Computational Creativity (ICCC'22), 27/6-1/7 in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Message-ID: The 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'22) June 27 – July 1, 2022, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (physical event supporting some virtual presence) Call for papers: full regular papers (long papers) https://computationalcreativity.net Please distribute (Apologies for cross-posting) ---------------------------------------- Computational Creativity (or CC) is a discipline with its roots in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cognitive Science, Engineering, Design, Psychology, and Philosophy that explores the potential for computers to be autonomous creators in their own right. ICCC is an annual conference that welcomes papers on different aspects of CC, on systems that exhibit varying degrees of creative autonomy, on frameworks that offer greater clarity for thinking about machine (and human) creativity, on methodologies for building or evaluating CC systems, on approaches to teaching CC in schools and universities or to promoting societal uptake of CC as a field and as a technology, and so on. **** Themes and Topics **** Original research contributions are solicited in all areas related to Computational Creativity research and practice, including, but not limited to: - Applications that address creativity in specific domains such as music, language, narrative, poetry, games, visual arts, graphic design, product design, architecture, entertainment, education, mathematical invention, scientific discovery, and programming. - Applications and frameworks that allow for co-creativity between humans and machines, in which the machine is more than a mere tool and takes on significant creative responsibility for itself. - Metrics, frameworks, formalisms and methodologies for the evaluation of creativity in computational systems, and for the evaluation of how such systems are perceived in society. - Computational paradigms for understanding creativity, including heuristic search, analogical and meta-level reasoning, and representation. - Resource development and data gathering/knowledge curation for creative systems, especially resources and data collections that are scalable, extensible and freely available as open-source materials. - Ethical considerations in the design, deployment or testing of CC systems, as well as studies that explore the societal impact of CC systems. - Cognitive and psychological computational models of creativity, and their relation with existing cognitive architectures and psychological accounts. - Computational models of social aspects of creativity, including the relationship between individual and social creativity, diffusion of ideas, collaboration and creativity, formation of creative teams, and creativity in social settings. - Perspectives on CC which draw from philosophical and/or sociological studies in a context of creative intelligent systems. - CC in the cloud, including how web services can be used to foster unexpected creative behaviour in computational systems. - Debate papers that raise new issues or reopen seemingly settled ones. Provocations that question the foundations of the discipline or throw new light on old work are also welcome. - High-level analyses of trends, biases, paradigms and historical shifts in the computational treatment of creativity. New papers reflecting all computational approaches and perspectives on creativity are welcome, including e.g., symbolic approaches, neural and statistical approaches, hybrid approaches, big-data approaches, rule-based approaches, curated approaches, and so on. The onus is on authors to argue and/or explicitly demonstrate the relevance of their work to the topic of computational creativity. Manuscripts should be exclusively submitted to ICCC, and may only be under review for ICCC for the duration of the review process. All papers should be in-scope and comply with scientific norms. The program chairs reserve the right to fast review papers that do not abide by these requirements. **** Paper Types **** We welcome the submission of five different types of long papers: Technical papers, System or Resource description papers, Study papers, Cultural application papers and Position papers. This year the submission process has two stages: initial submission of a title and abstract, and subsequent submission of the full paper a week later. Papers will be reviewed in a double-blind fashion, which necessitates that authors take appropriate steps to remain anonymous. The final, de-anonymized version of multi-author papers should include a Contributions section in which the contribution of each author is explicitly stated. The long paper page limit is 8 pages + up to 2 pages of references. The reference pages may include the above mentioned Contributions-section as well as the Acknowledgement section. **** LONG PAPERS, Important Dates **** *Abstracts due*: February 4, 2022 *Full papers due (strict):* February 11, 2022 *Acceptance notification:* April 8, 2022 *Camera-ready copies due:* May 13, 2022 *Conference:* June 27-July 1, 2022 We expect the submission deadline for short papers to be set a week after long-paper notification, allowing a short period for authors to retool their long-paper submissions for this call. Please watch for future announcements of the short-paper call. We are working to a tighter schedule this year, as we shift the conference from September back to June, and so authors should not expect any extension to the above deadlines. Rather, these will be strictly enforced to give the program committee sufficient time for their review work. *** All authors of accepted papers can opt to also show a demo of their system or prototype during the conference. You will be asked if you are interested in this option during the submission process *** **** More Information **** More information on the paper types and submission process can soon be found at https://computationalcreativity.net/ **** Organizing Committee **** *General Chairs:* Oliver Kutz & Tony Veale *Local Chair:* Roberto Confalonieri *Program Chairs:* Anna Kantosalo & Maria M. Hedblom ---------------------------------------- *Follow us at:* Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pg/computationalcreativity/ Twitter – https://twitter.com/iccc_conf Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/iccc_conf/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From emiliosanfilippo at gmail.com Wed Nov 17 10:26:34 2021 From: emiliosanfilippo at gmail.com (Emilio Sanfilippo) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:26:34 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] Call for hosting FOIS 2023 Message-ID: <084c5a22-c54d-49c0-50cc-383d11c3110d@gmail.com> The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) is now soliciting proposals for the location of the *13th edition of FOIS * to be held in *2023* (see the page Hosting FOIS ). Proposals should include a description of the conference venue, the availability of local sponsorship, proposed dates, and a preliminary budget. Possible co-location with related conferences will also be considered as a factor in the final decision. For this edition, *we especially welcome proposals from the Americas.* The IAOA has adopted the policy to take all risks and benefits for the FOIS conferences while encouraging sponsors to take part of the risks. Please *send proposals to* info at iaoa.org by December 2021. 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Accepted papers at that point, will naturally also remain accepted despite any postponement. --* After two years of hibernation, we are happy to announce that the Image Schema Day (ISD6) is returning in its sixth reincarnation: at a new venue, with new research, but with the same purpose. In broad terms, image schemas are spatiotemporal relationships between objects and agents that are learned in early infancy such as containment, support and linkage. These relationships are hypothesised to construct the information skeleton found in object affordances, linguistic and artistic metaphors, the conceptualisation of event segmentation and analogical reasoning. Traditionally studied in cognitive linguistics, these abstract patterns gained increased interest to solve some of the semantic grounding issues in AI and cognitive robotics, but are also a familiar sight in interaction design, art and literary analysis, developmental psychology, and gesture interpretation, to name but a few. To offer a platform to discuss this topic across the disciplines, the workshop* The Image Schema Day *was born in 2015, and so far, it gathered researchers on five different occasions. The workshop is primarily a networking event that invites researchers on image schemas and related notions from a broad range of scientific disciplines to present their research and discuss ideas for future projects. Unlike many other workshops focused on different topics in one discipline or using one methodology, the ISD6 invites researchers from all disciplines and methodologies but focuses on one topic. For the first time organised outside of Italy, the event will be held fully on-site in the beautiful 1850's villa Mariedal that, since its renovation, features as Jönköping University's representation venue. Jönköping is a mid-sized town beautifully located between several lakes, tucked in the deep Swedish forests and hilly-mountains. If we are lucky, January might treat us to some white snow as well! The workshop accepts three forms of *submissions with deadline December 10 *(more information can be found on the website): - Abstracts for presentation (2 pages) - (*NOTE*: *not included in the proceedings.*) - Extended abstracts (at least 5 pages) of either preliminary work and ideas or summaries of previously published articles. - Research papers (5-10 pages) discussing novel research not published (or under review) at another venue. Topics of interests with (the broadest of interpretation of) an image-schematic focus include, but are not limited to: - conceptual metaphors - affordances - spatiotemporal reasoning - force dynamics - conceptual modelling - embodied and spatial cognition - general artificial intelligence - commonsense reasoning - analogical reasoning - cognitive robotics - interface design - art and literature analysis All submissions will be peer-reviewed by a highly diverse PC and accepted contributions will be included in the ISD6 proceedings (either as a standalone volume or as part of the Joint Ontology Workshops JOWO - held later in 2022). Submitted abstracts will have a chance to turn their contributions into full research papers after the workshop. Papers that are accepted after a second round of reviewing will be included in the proceeding. Please share this invitation with colleagues and students that you think might be interested and consider joining us this January! 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