From iccc22.conference at gmail.com Mon Apr 4 13:54:45 2022 From: iccc22.conference at gmail.com (ICCC 2022) Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 21:54:45 +1000 Subject: [iaoa-general] Final Call for Short Papers: The 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'22) Message-ID: (Apologies for cross-posting - Please distribute!) *FINAL CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS AND DEMOS 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 short papers * https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc22/short-paper-and-demos/ *Deadline extended!* ————————————————————— **** Short Paper and Demos Deadline *** *Short papers deadline: April 13th April 22nd Notification: May 13th May 16th ————————————————————— Computational Creativity (or CC) is a discipline with roots in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cognitive Science, Engineering, Design, Psychology and Philosophy, and which 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. **** ICCC 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 behavior 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. **** Short Paper Types *** *Short papers offer concise treatments of work and ideas that are better suited to this concentrated format. We anticipate submissions in the short paper category along any or all of the following lines: - *Nuggets and Gems:* short papers on any topic of CC for which one might consider a long paper. In this case, the work will be succinct enough, or at an early enough stage, to warrant the short paper format. - *System Demonstrations:* Submissions for the show-and-tell session should be made as short papers that are marked accordingly. - *Debate Sparks:* The short paper format is ideal for provocations that get the community talking. Is there some aspect of CC that you feel deserves more attention from the community? - *CC Translations:* Researchers in other fields often do work that we in CC would see as related to our own. We invite those researchers to present such work at ICCC, via a Translations short paper. This is submitted as an extended abstract that summarizes your work in another field. - *CC Bridges:* Research communities often retreat into silos and fail to reach out beyond their own borders. A bridging short paper explicitly seeks to create bridges to another field, to foster interdisciplinarity. Unlike a Translations paper, a Bridge is written by a CC researcher wishing to introduce new ideas from beyond our conventional horizons. - *Late Breaking Results:* The results of your work (empirical or system-related) may not have been ready for a long-paper submission. Consider submitting that work now in a short-paper format. - *Pilot Studies:* Have you conducted an initial foray into a research topic that deserves attention? Plant a flag for your research with a short paper. - *Grand Challenges:* Do you have a proposal for a task that can bring large parts of the community together in a productive collaborative effort? - *Meta-Perspectives:* Do your experience of the CC community (such as our conferences, workshops, reviewing processes, etc.) move you to write an analysis of how we might do things differently and better? - *Field Reports:* Have you taken your CC research into the field, where practitioners and/or commercial partners have explored its uses first hand? Consider writing a short paper about your experiences. - *Event Reports:* Have you organized a CC-flavored event – a workshop, a tutorial, a seminar series, a postgraduate course, a public debate, an exhibition of CC outputs, or related outreach activity? Consider writing a short paper on your experience and that of your audience. **** DEMO papers **** 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. **** Submission, Paper and Presentation Format**** All short papers have the same length restriction (4 pages), and may focus on any of the same themes or topics as long papers. Papers should be anonymized and submitted as a PDF document formatted according to ICCC style (which is similar to AAAI and IJCAI formats). You can download the updated ICCC’22 template here: [ https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc22/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ICCC-22-author-kit.zip ]. Submissions must be done before the deadline through the EasyChair platform at the ICCC 2022 site: [https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=iccc20220]. To be included in the proceedings, each paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. This means that at least one author will have to register and participate in the session in which their paper is presented, including the designated question-and-answer period. In order to ensure the highest level of quality, all submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated in terms of their scientific, technical, artistic and/or cultural contribution, and therefore there will be only one format for submission. However, the program committee will decide, for each submission, the most appropriate format for presentation: talk, poster, or system demonstration. * *** Important Dates for Short Papers and Demos **** Deadline: April 13th, 2022 April 22nd, 2022 Acceptance notification: May 13th, 2022 May 16th, 2022 Camera-ready copies due: May 31st, 2022 Conference: June 27-July 1, 2022 The submission deadline for short papers is set after the long-paper notification, allowing authors to retool their long-paper submissions for this call. **** More Information **** More information on the paper types and submission process can soon be found at https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc22/short-paper-and-demos/ **** Organizing Committee **** General Chairs: Oliver Kutz & Tony Veale Local Chair: Roberto Confalonieri Program Chairs: Anna Kantosalo & Maria M. 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URL: From Guendalina.Righetti at stud-inf.unibz.it Tue Apr 12 17:17:55 2022 From: Guendalina.Righetti at stud-inf.unibz.it (Righetti Guendalina (Student Com18)) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 15:17:55 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] =?windows-1252?q?1st_Call_for_Papers_-_Cognition_?= =?windows-1252?q?and_Ontologies=3A_CAOS_VI_=40_JOWO_2022=2C_August_15-19?= =?windows-1252?q?=2C_J=F6nk=F6ping=2C_Sweden?= Message-ID: CAOS 2022 - Call for Papers Cognition And OntologieS part of the 8th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2022) held August 15-19 in Jönköping, Sweden Submission deadline: June 3 Website: http://caos.inf.unibz.it The purpose of the workshop is to bridge the gap between the cognitive sciences and research on formal ontologies and, thus, to create a venue for researchers interested in interdisciplinary aspects of knowledge representation. More specifically, CAOS investigates key cognitive phenomena and concepts (and the involved terminology) that can be found across language, psychology, and reasoning, and how they can be formally and ontologically understood and analysed. The exploration of the connection between cognitive sciences/experimental psychology and ontologies, as well as, more generally, symbolic AI, aims also to provide formal and logical modelling and reasoning approaches for capturing such connections. CAOS, thus, seeks answers to ways such formalisations and ontological analysis can be exploited in Artificial Intelligence and information systems, also in practical application. We welcome submissions on topics related to the ontology of hypothesised building blocks of cognition (such as image schemas, affordances, categories, and related notions) and of cognitive capacities (such as concept invention and combination, 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): * Ontologies of cognitive phenomena * 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 * Logic and Cognition (challenges, possible solutions and validation scenarios) * Formal representation of cognitive structures / functions / processes * Knowledge Representation and Common-Sense * Formalisation/modelling of language, image schemas and/or affordance * Concept invention and concept combination * Cognitive and language development from an ontological perspective * Metaphors and analogies (formal representation, ontological analysis) * AI for language understanding * Knowledge acquisition and categorisation in AI and Robotics * Concept-based computational creativity * Embodied cognition, image schemas, affordances for AI * Neural networks and ontological modelling. We welcome researchers from all career stages to participate. Besides full research papers, work in progress (short papers) and extended abstracts (presentation only) are also welcome since a central goal of the workshop is the discussion of ongoing interdisciplinary work. All research 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 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 conference. Submissions Submission deadline: June 3 , 2022 Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=jowo2022 (select the track for CAOS VI: “Cognition And OntologieS”) Paper formats: We encourage three types of contributions: • Full research paper: submitted papers must have between 10 and 12 pages + an additional page for references (if necessary). • Short paper: submitted papers must have between 5 and 6 pages + an additional page for references (if necessary). • Abstract for presentation: 1-2 page abstracts (including references) for presentation. (Note that abstracts will not be included in the proceedings as a research paper, but included in the introduction to the workshop 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 2021: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2969/ JOWO 2020: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2708/ JOWO 2019: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2518/ JOWO 2018: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2205/ Organisation Guendalina Righetti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Program Committee Taisuke Akimoto, Kyushu Institute of Technology Hadi Banaee, Örebro University Daniel Bessler, University of Bremen João Miguel Cunha, University of Coimbra Roberta Ferrario, CNR Laura Giordano, Università del Piemonte Orientale Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Technische Universität Dortmund Martha Lewis, University of Amsterdam Daniele Porello, University of Genoa Marco Schorlemmer, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, IIIA-CSIC Tony Veale, University College Dublin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com Wed Apr 27 10:37:23 2022 From: maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com (Maria Hedblom) Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:37:23 +0200 Subject: [iaoa-general] =?utf-8?q?The_8th_Joint_Ontology_Workshops=2C_15-?= =?utf-8?q?19th_of_August=2C_J=C3=B6nk=C3=B6ping=2C_Sweden?= Message-ID: *(Apologies for possible cross-posting)* -- Call for participation -- *The Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO'22)---- Episode VIII: The Svear Summer of Ontology ----* 15-19th of August 2022 Jönköping, Sweden Link to IAOA's official JOWO website Link to JU's event website *--- The workshops and tutorials are presented at the end ---* Every year researchers from areas like philosophy, computer science, linguistics, conceptual modelling and cognitive science gather to participate in a series of workshops and tutorials related to ontology. The event is The Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO), an interdisciplinary umbrella conference centred on research in and application of ontologies. Biyearly, JOWO is co-located with FOIS, but being a large enough event on its own, every other year, JOWO is a freestanding event. The conference series' continuity is maintained by The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) , a non-profit organization aiming to promote interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology. Due to its unique format, JOWO offers an inspiring platform in which participants can engage with new knowledge in tutorials, present their own innovative findings in workshops, explore new research collaborations from nearby disciplines and network with researchers and practitioners at the event's social program. With seven previous episodes, the conference series has become a regular event on many people's yearly "must-join" lists! This year's venue is the mid-sized Swedish city of Jönköping. A city for nature lovers, it is beautifully located at one of Sweden's biggest lakes, Vättern, and is surrounded by lush forests, hilly hiking trails and even has a perfectly smooth yellow sand beach (for real!). JOWO itself will take place at Jönköping University's modern facilities located close to the city centre. Following JOWO tradition, this year's episode "The Svear Summer of Ontology" will be filled with interesting workshops, educational tutorials, impressive keynote speakers and a not-to-miss social program! At the end of this promotion email, you will find short introductions to this year's three tutorials and eight participating workshops. JOWO's scientific program is based on individual workshop submissions. Check out the links to the JOWO workshop below and consider submitting your research to join the summer's hottest ontology event! Information on how to submit your papers to one of the workshops can be found on the individual workshop's website. Stay tuned! More information on this year's unique program and how you can register is underway! We look forward to seeing you at JOWO in Jönköping in August! Local organisers, Maria Hedblom, Karl Hammar and Tan He *--- JOWO'22 tutorials ---* *Generating text from Ontologies in Multiple Languages *Maria Keet and Zola Mahlaza *Shortened abstract:* Tutorial on the basics of knowledge-to-text methodology with ontologies. It includes creating templates for different types of axioms and for different purposes, applying them to an ontology of choice (BYO) and one from the pre-selected ones, and how to examine evaluations of ontology verbalisation. *Implementing better Ontologies with gUFO*Tiago Prince Sales, Joao Paolo A. Almeida, Giancarlo Guizzardi *Shortened abstract:* In this tutorial, we will introduce the core ontological commitments of the Unified Foundational Ontology, discuss how they were ported to gUFO, and demonstrate how to create domain ontologies with gUFO using Protegé. *Knowledge Graphs Tutorial* Tan He *Shortened abstract: *Knowledge graphs have emerged as the latest instance of using graphs for representing and reasoning over data and knowledge. In the tutorial, participants will get hands-on experience on how to model, represent, construct and use knowledge graphs by using the Semantic Web standards and technologies. *--- JOWO'22 workshops ---* *CAOS VI: The workshop on Cognition And OntologieS * Guendalina Righetti, Maria M. Hedblom, Oliver Kutz *Shortened abstract:* CAOS aims to bridge the gap between cognitive science and formal methods. The interdisciplinary workshop accepts submissions from any discipline aiming to formally model cognitive phenomena. *Energy and Sustainability Ontology Workshop *Martin Glauer, Janna Hastings, Till Mossakowski, Fabian Neuhaus *Shortened abstract: *Energy, and sustainability more broadly, are increasingly relevant topics in the context of the climate crisis and a rapidly changing world. This workshop focuses on the development of ontologies for these domains as well as applications in which such ontologies are used. *First Workshop on Formal Models of Knowledge Diversity *Lucia Gomez Alvarez, Rafael Penaloza, Srdjan Vesic *Shortened abstract:* This workshop intends to create a space of confluence and a forum for discussion for researchers interested in knowledge diversity in a wide sense, including diverging perspectives, different beliefs, semantic heterogeneity and others. *FOUST VI : The workshop on Foundational Ontology *Claudenir M. Fonseca, Jona Thai, Oliver Kutz and Stefano Borgo *Shortened abstract: *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. *IFOW: The Integrated Food Ontology Workshop *Damion Dooley, Rhiannon Cameron, Lauren Chan, Duccio Cavalieri, Robert Warren, Hande McGinty, Matthew Lange, Fernanda Dorea, Jaspreet Ahuja *Shortened abstract: *This workshop seeks to define the coverage of the different ecological, agricultural, nutritional, dietary, public health, one health surveillance, food security, and trade domains that food-related ontologies are modelling, and the use of data translation tools for bringing legacy data into the ontology fold. *Ontologies for Social Services (OSS) *Bart Gajderowicz, Daniela Rozu, Janna Hastings *Shortened abstract: *The purpose of the OSS workshop is to foster communication and strengthen interdisciplinary work at the intersection of semantic technologies and social services. We welcome reports from Social Work practitioners on their experiences using semantic-enabled technologies, best practices, and insights. *RobOntics: Ontologies for Autonomous Robotics *Mihai Pomarlan, Mohammed Diab, Stefano Borgo, Alberto Olivares-Alarcos, Daniel Beßler, Robert Porzel, Aldo Gangemi *Shortened abstract: *Many research projects, motivated by applications in healthcare assistance, logistics, autonomous driving etc, aim to bring robots out of the lab and into realistic human environments. This workshop focuses on how ontologies can advance robotics research within these areas. *WOODD: Workshop on Ontologies for the Disaster Domain *Shirly Stephen, Rui Zhu, Cogan Shimizu *Shortened abstract: *There is an increasing interest in semantically integrating diverse and heterogeneous hazard data sets, along with representing hazard information in knowledge graphs. However, there are still significant deficiencies in state-of-the-art ontologies that can represent and connect hazard data across independent sources and variant schemas. This workshop aims to address this research gap. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: