From Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it Wed Mar 9 19:02:55 2022 From: Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it (Kutz Oliver) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 18:02:55 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] EKAW 2022: First Call for Papers - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy -- September 26-29, 2022 Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] =========================================================== EKAW 2022 CALL FOR PAPERS https://ekaw2022.inf.unibz.it Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy -- September 26-29, 2022 =========================================================== Important Dates: * Abstract Submission: June 3 * Paper Submission: June 10 =========================================================== RESEARCH, IN-USE AND POSITION PAPERS The 23rd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management concerns all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modelling and managing knowledge in the construction of systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent information integration, and so on. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== EKAW 2022 welcomes long and short papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, experimental, and application-oriented aspects of knowledge engineering and knowledge management. In particular, but not exclusively, we solicit papers about methods, tools and methodologies on the following topics: - Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition * Methods, techniques and tools for knowledge acquisition and ontology engineering * Ontology design patterns * Ontology localisation and multilinguality * Ontology mapping and alignment * Ontology evaluation and metrics * Semi-automatic knowledge acquisition, e.g., ontology learning * Collaborative knowledge engineering * Uncertainty and vagueness in knowledge representation * Dealing with dynamic, distributed and emerging knowledge - Knowledge Management and Governance * Methods, techniques and tools for knowledge management * Knowledge sharing and distribution, collaboration * Methods for accelerating take-up of knowledge management technologies * Ontology and knowledge governance * Knowledge evolution, maintenance and preservation * Incentives for human knowledge acquisition and data quality improvement - Ethical and Trustworthy Knowledge Engineering * Ethics, trust and privacy in knowledge representation and reasoning * Explainable AI * Transparency for knowledge-based systems * FAIR data and FAIR knowledge * Provenance and trust in knowledge management * Inclusivity and diversity in knowledge representation - Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Engineering * Similarity and analogy-based reasoning * Knowledge representation inspired by cognitive science * Synergies between humans and machines * Knowledge emerging from user interaction and (social) networks * Knowledge ecosystems * Crowdsourcing in knowledge management - Knowledge discovery * Mining the web of data for knowledge construction * Text mining and ontology engineering * Classification and clustering for knowledge management * Mining patterns and association rules * Neuro-symbolic Artificial Intelligence - Applications in specific domains such as: * eGovernment and public administration * Media * Life sciences, health and medicine * Humanities and Social Sciences * Automotive and manufacturing industry * Cultural heritage * Digital libraries * Geosciences * ICT4D (Knowledge in the developing world) TYPES OF PAPERS =============== We will accept three types of papers. The papers will all have the same status and follow the same formatting guidelines in the proceedings but will receive special treatment during the reviewing phase. In particular, each paper type will be subject to its own evaluation criteria. At submission time the paper has to be clearly identified as belonging to one of the following categories. All three paper types can be in the form of long and short papers. * Research papers (long and short): These are standard papers presenting a novel method, technique or analysis with appropriate empirical or other types of evaluation as a proof-of-concept. The main evaluation criteria here will be originality, technical soundness and validation. * In-use papers (long and short): Here we are expecting papers describing applications of knowledge management and engineering in real environments. Applications need to address a sufficiently interesting and challenging problem on real-world datasets, involving many users.. The focus is less on the originality of the approach and more on presenting systems that solve a significant problem while addressing the particular challenges that come with the use of real-world data. Evaluations are essential for this type of paper and should involve a representative subset of the actual users of the system. * Position papers (long and short): We invite researchers to also publish position papers, which describe novel and innovative ideas. Position papers may also comprise an analysis of currently unsolved problems, or review these problems from a new perspective, in order to contribute to a better understanding of these problems in the research community. We expect that such papers will guide future research by highlighting critical assumptions, motivating the difficulty of a certain problem or explaining why current techniques are not sufficient, possibly corroborated by quantitative and qualitative arguments. IMPORTANT DATES ================ * Abstract Submission deadline: June 3, 2022 * Full paper Submission deadline: June 10, 2022 * Notification of acceptance: July 12, 2022 * Camera-ready paper: July 26, 2022 * Conference days: September 26-29, 2022 All submission deadlines are 23:59:59 AoE. SUBMISSIONS ============ Pre-submission of abstracts is a strict requirement. All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ekaw2022 All submissions for research, in-use, and position papers must be in English. Long papers should not be longer than 15 pages (references included), and short papers should not be longer than 7 pages (references included). Submissions must be in PDF. The formatting style will be announced soon. ORGANISATION ============ Program Chairs * Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) * Laura Hollink (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) General / Local Chairs * Oliver Kutz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) * Nicolas Troquard (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) From roberta at loa.istc.cnr.it Fri Mar 11 19:58:19 2022 From: roberta at loa.istc.cnr.it (Roberta Ferrario) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 19:58:19 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] [CFP] 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH 2022) Message-ID: <269f056cb4045705cfea4184a5cde0ed@loa.istc.cnr.it> 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH 2022) @ADBIS 2022, 26th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, September 5, 2022, Turin, Italy, https://swodch2022.inf.unibz.it/ *WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIM* After the success of the 2021 international workshop, SWODCH is back in 2022 with its 2nd edition, this year co-located with the 26th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2022, https://adbis2022.polito.it/). The 2022 edition aims at consolidating the coexistence of the two souls, which SWODCH historically originates from: the one focused on the foundational research behind the creation of conceptual models, ontologies and, more in general, the knowledge modelling practices adopted in the Digital Humanities, and the other, closer to the development and deployment of Semantic Web technologies and applications for that field. SWODCH promotes the parallel and interacting growth of these two souls, since each of them is seen as a source of inspiration for the other, an opportunity to define innovative solutions and pose new challenging research questions. The “foundational” purpose of SWODCH is to gather original research work about both application and foundational issues emerging from the design of conceptual models, ontologies, and Semantic Web technologies for the Digital Humanities, here understood according to its broader definition including Cultural Heritage, digital History, Archaeology and related fields. In fact, a plethora of heterogeneous and multi-format data sources currently available in the Digital Humanities domain asks for dedicated methodologies and formal tools to semantically annotate, integrate, and reason on domain knowledge and data. Studies about the philosophical and social analysis of DH data and their resulting formal knowledge representation models are also fundamental if one wants to computationally deal in an efficient way with the historical and social dimensions of DH knowledge and data. The “application-oriented” focus of SWODCH, on the other hand, aims at bringing together stakeholders from various scientific fields, Computer Scientists, Data Scientists and Digital Humanists, involved in the development or deployment of Semantic Web solutions. Despite the fact that considerable efforts have been spent in the last ten years to improve the availability and interoperability of data and knowledge in the DH field and that significant results have been produced, we still experience a digital ecosystem in which formal Knowledge Representation and Semantic Web standards can play an important role in improving and harmonising the way DH data and resources can be exposed, linked and cross-searched. It is also for this reason that, more than 20 years after the beginning of this century, SWODCH fully embodies the values behind the FAIR principles, and asks for contributions which respect and adhere to them. According to the tradition of SWODCH, the 2022 edition of the workshop will provide a scientific forum where scholars and stakeholders have the opportunity to exchange ideas, experiences, and analyses, while presenting achievements and outcomes of relevant projects, and discussing the challenges they had to face. *IMPORTANT DATES* - Paper submission deadline: May 2, 2022 - Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2022 - Camera-ready papers: June 15, 2022 - Workshop: September 5, 2022 *LIST OF TOPICS* Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) one or more of the following topic areas: Conceptual analysis and ontology design for the Digital Humanities - Domain ontologies or conceptual models for history, history of arts, book studies, theatre, literature, editorial practices, archaeology, musicology, cultural and natural - heritage (including architectural heritage), among others. - Methodological aspects of ontology development for the Digital Humanities, including the need for modelling the social (contextual) dimension of both data and ontologies - Use of ontology design patterns - Case studies based on and lessons learned from the use of CIDOC-CRM or FRBR - Logical and ontological analysis of CIDOC-CRM or FRBR, e.g., with respect to foundational ontologies (DOLCE, UFO, BFO, etc.) - Application of formal ontology theories for knowledge representation or data management in the Digital Humanities - Philosophical and sociological analysis of both digital models and modelling practices in the Digital Humanities - Social studies on the policies towards the standardization of ontologies in the Digital Humanities Semantic Web publishing, architectures and SW-based interaction for Cultural Heritage - Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction - Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment - Virtual Cultural Heritage collections - Peer-to-peer Cultural Heritage architectures - E-infrastructures for Cultural Heritage - Interoperability, virtually integrated Cultural Heritage collections - Ontology-based data access or virtual knowledge graphs - Reasoning strategies (e.g. context, temporal, spatial) - Search, querying, and visualization of the Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web - Personalized access of Cultural Heritage collections - Context-aware information presentation - Navigation and browsing (facets) - Social aspects in Cultural Heritage access and presentation - Trust and provenance issues in mixed collection and mixed vocabulary applications Semantic Web-based applications for Cultural Heritage with clear lessons learned - Digital Libraries - Museums (virtual collections, mobile/ web-based museum guides) - Tourist services - Ambient Cultural Heritage - Creative industries *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* We will accept two different types of contributions: - Full papers for presenting original unpublished work, neither submitted to, nor accepted for, any other venue. Submitted *full papers* must not be shorter than 10 pages and must not exceed 12 pages, including bibliography. - Short papers for presenting work in progress, brief descriptions of doctoral theses, or general overviews of research projects. Submitted *short papers* must not be shorter than 6 pages and not exceed 8 pages, including bibliography. All the contributions to the workshop must be submitted according to the format specified at the following link: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs, and will be published in the Springer CCIS series. Please, note that Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. Papers should be submitted in PDF format using the EasyChair online submission system via this EasyChair Link (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adbis2022). Be careful to select the SWODCH 2022 track for your submission. Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit, originality and relevance to the workshop. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three Program Committee members. Diversity and inclusion statement. We kindly ask authors to adopt inclusive language in their papers and presentations (https://dbdni.github.io/pages/inclusivewriting.html and https://dbdni.github.io/pages/inclusivetalks.html), and all participants to adopt a proper code on conduct (https://dbdni.github.io/pages/codeofconduct.html). *ORGANISING COMMITTEE* - Antonis Bikakis, University College London, U.K. - Roberta Ferrario, ISTC-CNR, Italy - Stéphane Jean, University of Poitiers - ENSMA, France - Béatrice Markhoff, University François Rabelais de Tours, France - Alessandro Mosca, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy - Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo, University of Catania, Italy From roberta at loa.istc.cnr.it Wed Mar 23 21:42:59 2022 From: roberta at loa.istc.cnr.it (Roberta Ferrario) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 20:42:59 -0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] Call for Papers (OSS2022) - Ontologies for Social Services workshop at JOWO 2022 Message-ID: <7bb8bfafc2fdf254fe9f09c7da3fa8ed@loa.istc.cnr.it> Hello Everyone, (with apologies for cross-posting) International Workshop on Ontologies for Social Services (OSS2022) Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) 2022. The workshop will be held on 15-19 August 2022 in Jönköping University, Jönköpin, Sweden. https://csse.utoronto.ca/oss2022 *WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIM* Semantic Technologies provide a formal way to represent knowledge in ways that are interpretable by computers and a related technology stack to store, integrate and query information semantically. The purpose of the OSS workshop is to foster communication and strengthen interdisciplinary work at the intersection of semantic technologies and social services. We invite researchers from the Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web, Machine Learning, and Social Science communities to submit theoretical contributions, novel algorithms, artefacts, and tools related to social services. We welcome reports from Social Work practitioners on their experiences using semantic-enabled technologies, best practices, and insights. For additional information, please contact oss2022committee at gmail.com. *IMPORTANT DATES* - Submissions Due: May 1st, 2022 - Notifications Due: June 15, 2022. - Camera Ready: July 22, 2022. - Workshop: August 15-19, 2022 *TOPICS OF INTEREST* We welcome submissions from researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of semantic technologies and social services, and social service practitioners developing ontological artifacts. - New ontologies and Semantic Data Models for Social Services - Ontology extension for Social Services (e.g. BFO, DOLCE, SUMO, FOAF, GoodRelations) - Knowledge Acquisition, including ontology learning, natural language processing, and service plan extraction and optimization. - Knowledge Management - Semantic Data Integration - Knowledge-based Decision Support Systems, such as recommender systems and information retrieval. - Ontologies for Machine Learning - Social service governance, including trust, cooperation, and competition. - System Assessment and Analysis, including policy evaluation, economic analysis, impact models, Social Return on Investment (SROI) - Social service client outcome assessment, including risk assessment and conflict resolution. - Industry Applications and Case-studies, including Linked Data Applications, Semantic Web, and Knowledge Graphs, lessons learned and best practices. - Social Work Theory, including ontology of Social Work paradigms, educational material, and practice, behavior theory, cognitive theory. - Social Prescribing, and related ontologies. - Models of stakeholder goals, needs, roles (e.g. belief-desires-intentions models, UNSDG Goals, service providers and funders, socioeconomic determinants) - Models of Social Services, including service provisioning, process modelling, economic and funding models, sustainability, and client agency. - Cross-disciplinary research in Social Service and related areas, including public services, public health, government services, urban planning, and the judicial system. *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* - Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in English. Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages for regular papers, 6 pages for early career and position papers, and 3 pages for posters and demos. - All papers must be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format following the CEUR-WS single column formatting guidelines. - 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/wqyfdgftmcfw - Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair system. - Papers accepted at ICBO workshops will be published in a volume of CEUR workshop proceedings IAOA series. Please make your submission using EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2022. Diversity and inclusion statement. We kindly ask authors to adopt inclusive language in their papers and presentations (https://dbdni.github.io/pages/inclusivewriting.html and https://dbdni.github.io/pages/inclusivetalks.html), and all participants to adopt a proper code of conduct (https://dbdni.github.io/pages/codeofconduct.html). *ORGANISING COMMITTEE* - Bart Gajderowicz, Centre for Social Services Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada - Daniela Rosu, Centre for Social Services Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada - Janna Hastings, Center for Behaviour Change, University College London, UK From stefano.borgo at cnr.it Thu Mar 31 10:32:52 2022 From: stefano.borgo at cnr.it (Stefano Borgo) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 10:32:52 +0200 Subject: [iaoa-general] =?utf-8?q?CfP_ROBONTICS_2022=2C_15-19_August_2022?= =?utf-8?b?IChKw7Zua8O2cGluZywgU3dlZGVuKQ==?= In-Reply-To: <1e8b21bc-2449-3ead-be4d-3c57cb63b8c8@cnr.it> References: <1e8b21bc-2449-3ead-be4d-3c57cb63b8c8@cnr.it> Message-ID: International Workshop on Ontologies for Autonomous Robotics (ROBONTICS 2022 ) @ JOWO 2022, 15-19 August 2022, Jönköping, Sweden We encourage researchers interested in the fields of robotics and knowledge engineering to submit short (5-6 pages) or long (10-12 pages) research papers by May 24th 2022; accepted papers will be published in the JOWO proceedings volume in 2022. Researchers with accepted papers will be invited to present at the RobOntics 2022 workshop, which is planned to be a hybrid (online and, if conditions allow, physical event). **WORKSHOP MOTIVATION** ROBONTICS focuses on the area of robot autonomy enabled by knowledge-driven approaches, and in particular formal ontologies. It aims to foster interaction across robotics, ontology, and knowledge representation and reasoning, to match open problems to promising approaches, and to review progress in knowledge-driven robotics. Today ontologies are used in robotics and standardization efforts for robotics knowledge management. Many open problems involve autonomous robotic agents operating in natural or human environments, and several research projects in healthcare assistance, logistics, autonomous driving, etc, aim to bring robots into realistic human environments. One of the difficulties is the large amount of real-world knowledge that an agent needs to have to be able to act competently and autonomously. Further, any item of knowledge is often relevant for many agents and behaviors, and as such should be reusable. To garner trust and enable debugging, knowledge should also be accessible to human operators, both in terms of explaining what knowledge is present in a system, and of providing ways to easily amend it if necessary. **IMPORTANT DATES** - Submission deadline: May 24th, 2022 - Notification: July 1st, 2022 - Camera ready: July 22nd, 2022 - Workshop: August 15th-19th (TBD), 2022 **LIST OF TOPICS (partial)** Participants are invited to submit original papers for oral presentation, including, but not limited to, topics such as: *- Foundational issues:*    - are there some ontological approaches better suited than others for autonomous robotics? why?    - how should we ontologically model notions like capability, action, interaction, context etc. in robotics? *- Robustness:*    - how can ontologies be used to help robots cope with the variety and relatively fluid structure of human environments?    - is ontology a scalable tool in robotics applications?    - what are good benchmarks for robot autonomy?   - Ontologies in the perception-action loop:    - what roles can ontology play in autonomous manipulation?    - how can we help robots autonomously cope with manipulation problems using ontology?    - how can ontology be used to support machine learning for object classification? *- Interactivity:*    - how can knowledge about other agents present in the environment be modelled?    - how should we ontologically model the flow of an interaction, such as a conversation or shared task?    - how can model-driven methods play a role in human-robot interaction?   - how can ontology-based reasoning play a role in developing trust in Human-Robot Interaction scenarios? *- Normed behavior:*    - how should we ontologically represent, and then have a robot act according to, norms on behavior such as cultural expectations?    - how can these expectations be acquired, and would they be the same for robots as they are for humans? *- Explainability:*    - decision chains are very complex; how can these be organized and presented at various levels of detail for the benefit of a human user?    - what, ontologically, is an explanation? what is a good explanation, and how can one be generated from a collection of knowledge items? **WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS (alphabetical order)** - Daniel Beßler, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen, Germany - Stefano Borgo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC CNR, Trento, Italy - Mohammed Diab, Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain - Aldo Gangemi, University of Bologna and ISTC-CNR, Italy - Alberto Olivares-Alarcos, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC), Barcelona, Spain - Mihai Pomarlan, Faculty of Linguistics and Literature, University of Bremen, Germany - Robert Porzel, Digital Media Lab, University of Bremen, Germany **SUBMISSION INFORMATION** Papers presenting initial or ongoing research are welcome; so are position and survey papers delineating robotics problems and/or discussing the suitability of knowledge engineering approaches to solve such problems. All the contributions to the workshop must be submitted according to the CEUR-Art format. Submitted papers must have 10-12 pages for long papers, or 5-6 pages for short papers (not including references). Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their merit, originality, and relevance to the workshop. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two Program Committee members. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2022 **PUBLICATION** Accepted contributions to the workshop will be published in the JOWO proceedings. -- *Laboratory for Applied Ontology* (LOA), ISTC-CNR Trento, Italy http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: