From Guendalina.Righetti at stud-inf.unibz.it Mon Jun 6 13:03:41 2022 From: Guendalina.Righetti at stud-inf.unibz.it (Righetti Guendalina (Student Com18)) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2022 11:03:41 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] =?windows-1252?q?Final_Call_for_Papers_-_Cognitio?= =?windows-1252?q?n_and_Ontologies=3A_CAOS_VI_=40_JOWO_2022=2C_August_15-1?= =?windows-1252?q?9=2C_J=F6nk=F6ping=2C_Sweden?= Message-ID: CAOS 2022 - Final Call for Papers Cognition And OntologieS part of the 8th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2022) held August 15-19 in Jönköping, Sweden Submission deadline, extended: June 13 Extended Abstract deadline: June 20 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, extended: June 13 , 2022 Extended Abstract deadline: June 20 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). • Extended 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. We also accept short descriptions of previously published papers, either in journals or other conferences.) 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 Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it Thu Jun 16 17:48:30 2022 From: Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it (Kutz Oliver) Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:48:30 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] =?utf-8?q?PhD_opportunity_on_=E2=80=9Cstrategy_an?= =?utf-8?q?d_explainability_for_knowledge_bases=E2=80=9D_at_the_Faculty_of?= =?utf-8?q?_Computer_Science_of_the_Free_University_of_Bozen-Bolzano_in_It?= =?utf-8?q?aly?= Message-ID: The Faculty of Computer Science of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (unibz) offers 21 three-year grants for its PhD programme. The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data of the faculty is looking specifically for candidates suitable for a PhD project titled: “Strategy and Explainability for Knowledge Bases”. Description: This research project is about advancing the reasoning with conflicting knowledge, both in the strong sense of inconsistency, and in weaker varieties that involve conceptual clashes, empty concepts, or over-commitments. It focuses on bringing together three recent strands of research, namely 1) methods to weight information, 2) methods to weaken axioms, and 3) methods to negotiate or play games with information. The general application area is knowledge engineering, in particular providing solutions to the problem of resolving inconsistent information when an agent adds new knowledge to a knowledge base. But additionally, this entails the problem of explaining why a certain combination of knowledge is inconsistent, and it requires to explain or justify the proposed changes. Weighted logic focuses on the idea that different pieces of information have different value, or weight, reflecting a very natural idea from common sense reasoning. Axiom weakening allows for a fine-grained repair of inconsistent knowledge bases. Its main advantage is that it repairs them by making axioms less restrictive rather than by deleting them. Typical research questions are: - Strategic reasoning: How can the techniques from multiagent systems and game theory be applied to problems of collaborative ontology engineering and to concept combination? E.g., how can different agents agree on the weight of a particular piece of information? - Explainability: How can we best combine the ideas of weighted logic, where different pieces of information have different weight, and refinement, where we specialize or generalize our information? How can we explain and justify the weakening of information? Required skills: In general, applicants for this project are expected to have some good acquaintance with classical logic and its syntax and semantics. More advanced knowledge of proof methods, meta-theory, and non-classical logic will be a plus. The ideal candidate will already have some background in agents or game theory as well as KR languages such as description logics. Programming skills: experience with programming would be valuable, particularly for the purpose of carrying out evaluation studies and improving research prototypes. About the grant: Each grant amounts to 51,000 € (i.e., 17,000 euro per year, net after taxes); for research visits abroad, the grant increases up to 50%. Additional substantial extra funding (including a personal budget of 2,500 euro per year) is available for participation in international conferences, schools, workshops, research visits. Applications: The deadline for applications will be on the 1st of July 2022. (Applicants must have completed their Master’s degree at the time of enrolment by the 31st of October.) For more information, the call, and applications look at: www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science About Bolzano and unibz: The university is located in one of the most fascinating European regions, the tri-lingual South Tyrol. This young university has already established itself as an important research institution, both in Italy and abroad, and is accordingly highly evaluated in several international rankings. The KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data of the faculty of Computer Science is widely recognised as one of the internationally leading groups in Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Representation research, with a synergy between foundational and application-oriented research. The city of Bozen-Bolzano, the capital of South Tyrol, has exceptional standards of living, and is a beautiful Italian city of mixed Austrian-Italian cultural heritage, and perfectly located in the Dolomites mountains, a UNESCO world heritage site. Contact the supervisors: Oliver Kutz oliver.kutz at unibz.it and Nicolas Troquard nicolas.troquard at unibz.it http://www.inf.unibz.it/~okutz/ https://www.inf.unibz.it/~ntroquard/ ++++++ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: