From emiliosanfilippo at gmail.com Thu Dec 1 15:32:40 2022 From: emiliosanfilippo at gmail.com (Emilio Sanfilippo) Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 15:32:40 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] FOIS 2023 - Call For Workshop and Tutorial Proposals Message-ID: +++ Apologies for multiple postings +++ *FOIS 2023 - Call For Workshop and Tutorial Proposals* Submission deadline: January 6, 2023 Website: https://fois2023.griis.ca/call-for-workshop-and-tutorial-proposals/ Questions to: fois2023 at gmail.com The Workshop and Tutorial Chairs for FOIS 2023 invite proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held on site in conjunction with FOIS 2023 before or after the main conference which will take place July 17-20, 2023 in Sherbrooke, Canada (https://iaoa.org/index.php/2022/11/17/fois-2023-call-for-paper/). Workshops and tutorials at FOIS 2023 are events whose scientific program is independently established by the workshop organizers. They will be responsible for advertising the workshop and reviewing and selecting the contributions. Workshops can be events that provide a forum for the discussion of topics broadly related to ontologies, formal ontology, and knowledge management and their application in information science or other areas. Together, the workshops can 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. They are especially suitable for interdisciplinary and innovative formats. Previous JOWO (Joint Ontology Workshops)/FOIS workshops were held in 2021 in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (hybrid); 2020 (virtually); 2019 in Graz, Austria; 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa; 2017 in Bolzano, Italy; 2016 in Annecy, France; and at IJCAI 2015 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As in earlier years, all contributions to accepted workshops will be published open access in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, as part of the new IAOA series (http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html). Researchers and practitioners interested in the theory, practice, development and/or application of ontologies and related areas are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. We encourage several forms and length of workshops (the list is non-exhaustive): ●    workshops that focus on an established research area, including continuations of workshops that were held in the past; ●    workshops that focus on emerging topics and applications, or on open research questions and challenges; ●    workshops that aim to create cross-disciplinary research fostering exchange of ideas between groups otherwise mostly disconnected. Submission instructions Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be no more than 2 pages in length, and must contain the following information: ●    title of the workshop/tutorial; ●    names of the workshop/tutorial organizers. Please indicate a primary contact person. For organizational purposes, there must be at least two organizers who commit to be physically present during the event taking part in Canada; ●    brief description of experience in workshop/tutorial organization; ●    description of the workshop/tutorial topic; ●    brief description of the expected audience (please give an estimate of the expected number of participants and their background and interests; if applicable, please relate this to participation in similar prior events); ●    intended duration of the workshop (between half a day and a full day); ●    timeline for the workshop (submission dates, notification dates), taking into account the proposed “important dates” below. Workshop and tutorial proposals should be sent to fois2023 at gmail.com by January 6, 2023. Evaluation criteria Submissions of workshop proposals will be evaluated by the workshop chairs using the following criteria: ●    Scientific relevance and utility to attendees; ●    Quality of the proposal; ●    Likelihood of success of the workshop; ●    Overlap and complementarity with other workshops. Important dates ●    Workshop proposal submission deadline: January 6, 2023 ●    Workshop acceptance notification: January 26, 2023 ●    First call for papers to be distributed by workshop organizers: February 28, 2023 ●    Submission deadline: Around April 24, 2023 ●    Notification to authors: Around May 24, 2023 ●    Camera-ready versions of all papers received (TBD): Beginning of June, 2023 ●    Workshops and tutorials take place on site in conjunction with FOIS 2023 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada (July 17-20, 2023): TBD Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy Further inquiries Please direct all further questions to fois2023 at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vieu at irit.fr Thu Dec 8 20:55:39 2022 From: vieu at irit.fr (Laure Vieu) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 20:55:39 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] 5th ESAO Webinar, Dec 14, 2022 (10:00 EST / 15:00 UTC / 16:00 CET / 17:00 SAST) - Call for Participation Message-ID: Dear all, The Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1] is open for everyone and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike. --> The fifth of its regular webinar sessions will be held on Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 10:00 EST / 15:00 UTC / 16:00 CET / 17:00 SAST via a Zoom meeting (full connection details at the end of this message): https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/94922889721?pwd=T2ozYlFKMUNreGMwVVlTWTZEdzl4QT09 No registration needed; please find full connection details at the end of this message. Program ------- * 10:00-10:30 EST / 15:00-15:30 UTC / 16:00-16:30 CET / 17:00-17:30 SAST Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse and CNRS, Toulouse, France "From Semantic metadata to an ontology-based legal decision support system for data sharing" Abstract: With the increasing availability of open datasets, data sharing becomes an evidence, in particular in the research domain. The FAIR principles have provided some guidelines to facilitate data sharing. They strongly recommend the use of semantic, machine processable and standard metatada. Nevertheless, these metadata are not sufficient to check if the data sharing is compatible with data sharing regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other regulations about AI-based data analysis, or even the anticipation of inappropriate reuses of data. In the first part of my talk I will illustrate the advantages and limitations of semantic metadata. Then I will expose a research line based on collaborations with lawyers to design a rule-based and ontology-based support system that could guide data producers in their decision to share data according tho regulations and preferences. Series Description ------------------ The IAOA [2] has created ESAO [1], 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) [3] (whose next edition will be held in 2023). ESAO is complementary in format and its overall approach. The goal is to provide a combination of an archive of educational material (e.g., short video lectures) and a series of webinars for presenting and discussing that material. Organization ------------ Members of the Education Technical Committee of IAOA [2] and among those primarily (in alphabetical order): * Lucía Gómez Álvarez * Frank Loebe * Sandra Lovrenčić * Cassia Trojahn (Chair) * Laure Vieu Contact E-Mail:info at iaoa.org [1] Educational Series on Applied Ontology https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO [2] IAOA website http://iaoa.org/ [3] ISAO History page https://iaoa.org/index.php/isao-history/ Connection Details ------------------ Topic: ESAO 5th Session Time: Dec 14, 2022 04:00 PM Paris Join Zoom Meeting https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/94922889721?pwd=T2ozYlFKMUNreGMwVVlTWTZEdzl4QT09 Meeting ID: 949 2288 9721 Passcode: 936862 Join by SIP 94922889721 at zoomcrc.com Join by H.323 162.255.37.11 (US West) 162.255.36.11 (US East) 221.122.88.195 (China) 115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai) 115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad) 213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) 213.244.140.110 (Germany) 103.122.166.55 (Australia Sydney) 103.122.167.55 (Australia Melbourne) 209.9.211.110 (Hong Kong SAR) 149.137.40.110 (Singapore) 64.211.144.160 (Brazil) 69.174.57.160 (Canada Toronto) 65.39.152.160 (Canada Vancouver) 207.226.132.110 (Japan Tokyo) 149.137.24.110 (Japan Osaka) Meeting ID: 949 2288 9721 Passcode: 936862 Join by Skype for Business https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/skype/94922889721 _________________________________________________________________ To Post: mailto:iaoa-member at ovgu.de Msg Archives: https://listserv.ovgu.de/mailman/private/iaoa-member/ List Info: https://listserv.ovgu.de/mailman/listinfo/iaoa-member/ IAOA website: http://iaoa.org From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Wed Dec 14 14:05:24 2022 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 14:05:24 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] (in < 2 hours) -> 5th ESAO Webinar, December 14, 2022 (10:00 EST / 15:00 UTC / 16:00 CET / 17:00 SAST) - Call for Participation Message-ID: <6fe74484-a5fa-0694-9c55-f3cb0bdc5a92@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> [with apologies for short notice, where not a reminder] The Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1] is open for everyone and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike. --> The fifth of its regular webinar sessions will be held on Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 at 10:00 EST / 15:00 UTC / 16:00 CET / 17:00 SAST via this Zoom meeting: https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/94922889721?pwd=T2ozYlFKMUNreGMwVVlTWTZEdzl4QT09 No registration needed; please find full connection details at the end of this message. Program ------- * 10:00 EST / 15:00 UTC / 16:00 CET / 17:00 SAST Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (Institut de Recherche de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France) "From Semantic metadata to an ontology-based legal decision support system for data sharing" Abstract: With the increasing availability of open datasets, data sharing becomes an evidence, in particular in the research domain. The FAIR principles have provided some guidelines to facilitate data sharing. They strongly recommend the use of semantic, machine processable and standard metadata. Nevertheless, these metadata are not sufficient to check if the data sharing is compatible with data sharing regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other regulations about AI-based data analysis, or even the anticipation of inappropriate reuses of data. In the first part of my talk I will illustrate the advantages and limitations of semantic metadata. Then I will expose a research line based on collaborations with lawyers to design a rule-based and ontology-based support system that could guide data producers in their decision to share data according tho regulations and preferences. Series Description ------------------ The IAOA [2] has created ESAO [1], 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) [3] (the next edition of which will be held during July 10-14, 2023). ESAO is complementary in format and its overall approach. The goal is to provide a combination of an archive of educational material (e.g., short video lectures) and a series of webinars for presenting and discussing that material. Organization ------------ Members of the Education Technical Committee of IAOA [2] and among those primarily (in alphabetical order): * Lucía Gómez Álvarez * Frank Loebe * Sandra Lovrenčić * Cassia Trojahn (Chair) * Laure Vieu Contact E-Mail: info at iaoa.org [1] Educational Series on Applied Ontology https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO [2] IAOA website http://iaoa.org/ [3] ISAO History page https://iaoa.org/index.php/isao-history/ Connection Details ------------------ Topic: ESAO 5th Session Time: Dec 14, 2022 04:00 PM Paris Join Zoom Meeting https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/94922889721?pwd=T2ozYlFKMUNreGMwVVlTWTZEdzl4QT09 Meeting ID: 949 2288 9721 Passcode: 936862 Join by SIP 94922889721 at zoomcrc.com Join by H.323 162.255.37.11 (US West) 162.255.36.11 (US East) 221.122.88.195 (China) 115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai) 115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad) 213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) 213.244.140.110 (Germany) 103.122.166.55 (Australia Sydney) 103.122.167.55 (Australia Melbourne) 209.9.211.110 (Hong Kong SAR) 149.137.40.110 (Singapore) 64.211.144.160 (Brazil) 69.174.57.160 (Canada Toronto) 65.39.152.160 (Canada Vancouver) 207.226.132.110 (Japan Tokyo) 149.137.24.110 (Japan Osaka) Meeting ID: 949 2288 9721 Passcode: 936862 Join by Skype for Business https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/skype/94922889721 From selja.seppala.unige at gmail.com Thu Dec 22 23:01:57 2022 From: selja.seppala.unige at gmail.com (=?utf-8?B?U2VsamEgU2VwcMOkbMOk?=) Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:01:57 +0200 Subject: [iaoa-general] FOIS 2023: 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: <11185422-3D9A-4AB4-A190-A93EDE568AC0@gmail.com> *** Apologies for cross-posting *** FOIS 2023: 2nd Call for Papers ============================== 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023), July 17-20, 2023 (Sherbrooke, QC, Canada) and Sept 18-20, 2023 (Online) http://fois2023.griis.ca We are happy to announce three exciting keynote speakers for FOIS 2023: - Deborah McGuinness, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair and Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA - John Heil, Professor of Philosophy, Washington University, USA and Durham University, UK - Michael Gruninger, Professor of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada More information about our keynotes speakers: https://fois2023.griis.ca/keynote-speakers/ Definition and scope ==================== The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. The conference encourages submission of high quality, not previously published results on both theoretical issues and practical advancements. FOIS 2023 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies. FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with 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/), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology. Important dates =============== - Paper submission deadline: 31 January 2023 - Author rebuttal period: March 24-31, 2023 (tentative) - Notifications: April 10, 2023 (tentative) - Camera-ready papers: May 1, 2023 - Onsite conference: July 17-20, 2023 - Virtual conference: September 18-20, 2023 The submission deadline for workshops will be after the notifications to allow authors to submit a revised version of rejected papers to any of the conference workshops if the paper topics are appropriate for this workshop. Location ======== FOIS 2023 will consist of a physical meeting and a virtual meeting: An in-person only meeting in Sherbrooke, Quebec from July 17 to 20, 2023 that will be very much like a traditional conference with keynotes, regular talks, workshops and tutorials and plenty of social and networking opportunities. This part will not have a remote participation option, but we plan on recording selected talks (e.g. keynotes). The main conference will be from July 17 to 19 and workshops and tutorials will be held mostly on July 20. This will be followed by an online part to be held from September 18 to 20, 2023 that offers an opportunity for presentation and discussion of additional papers that were not presented at the physical meeting in Sherbrooke. To plan for this two-part event, authors must at the time of submission indicate their preference and constraints for presenting either on site in Sherbrooke or virtually. Acceptance will be either for in-person presentation or for online presentation, at which time authors can no longer change the modality. Since the numbers of in-person and online presentations are limited, we encourage authors to be as flexible as possible to maximize your chance of paper acceptance. More details are provided in the Submission Instructions. Submissions =========== FOIS 2023 seeks three types of full-length (14 pages) high-quality papers on a wide range of topics: Foundational papers address content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, and their relevance to some aspect of information systems. Application and Methods papers address novel systems, methods, and tools related to building, evaluating, or using ontologies, emphasizing the impact of ontology contents. Domain ontology papers describe a novel ontology for a specific realm of interest, clarifying ontological choices against requirements and foundational theory, and showing ontology use. Please refer to the submission instructions for more details. As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press. The conference will also offer workshops and tutorials related to formal ontologies. See the separate call for workshops and tutorials for more information. Topics of interest ================== Areas of particular interest to FOIS include the following: - Foundational Issues - Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts, events/processes - Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation - Vagueness and granularity - Space, time, and change - Methodological issues - Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies - Role of reference ontologies - Ontology similarity, integration, alignment, matching and entity reconciliation - Ontology modularity, patterns, and contextuality - Ontology evaluation, quality, reuse, adaptation, and evolution - Ontology compliance with FAIR principles - Formal comparison among ontologies - Relationship between conceptual modeling and ontologies - Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, and context - Connections between knowledge graphs and ontologies - Methodological issues in the applications of ontologies - Social issues, such as trust or bias, with respect to ontologies - Applications - Technical applications of ontologies, such as - Semantic Web - Other areas of AI (Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Rules) - Qualitative modeling - Systems applications of ontologies, such as - Ontology-driven information systems design - Ontology-based data access - Knowledge management - Information retrieval - Computational linguistics - Metadata management - Domain applications of ontologies, such as - Ontologies for business modeling - Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics, etc.) - Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture, etc. - Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, etc. - Ontologies for the social sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology, etc. - Ontologies for Open Science and dataset sharing - Domain-specific ontologies - Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, etc.) - Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells, etc.) - Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions, cognition, etc.) - Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles - Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, etc.) Conference Organization ======================= General Chair: Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK PC Chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France Torsten Hahmann, University of Maine, USA Local Organization Chair: Jean-François Ethier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Online Chair: Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy Early Career Chairs: Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE), France Guendalina Righetti, Free University Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Demo & Showcase Chairs: Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, Netherlands Publicity Chairs: Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland Proceedings Chair: Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden Program committee: https://fois2023.griis.ca/conference-organization/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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