From maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com Tue Apr 11 20:07:40 2023 From: maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com (Maria Hedblom) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 20:07:40 +0200 Subject: [iaoa-general] final CfP: EPIA2023: Track - AI, Generation and Creativity, Sep 5-8, Faial Island, Portugal Message-ID: *(Apologies for potential cross-posting)* EPIA 2023 Faial Island, Portugal, September 5-8, 2023 CfP Thematic Track on AI, Generation and Creativity https://epia2023.inesctec.pt/?page_id=620 *Deadline extension until April 28* ************ The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a well-established European conference in the field of AI, hosted by the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA) The 22nd edition of the EPIA conference will take place at Faial Island in the Azores Archipelago, from September 5th to September 8th, 2023. The purpose of the EPIA conference is to promote research in all areas of AI, covering both theoretical/foundational issues and applications, and the scientific exchange among researchers, engineers and practitioners in related disciplines. Together with the international Steering Committee, the Program Chairs have selected a number of different thematic tracks to be featured at the conference, covering a wide spectrum of AI topics. One of the accepted tracks is devoted to AI, Generation and Creativity. ************ The Thematic Track on AI, Generation and Creativity intends to address practical and theoretical works related to the use of AI for creative purposes. The intersection between generation and creativity is fertile ground, encompassing topics related to artificial creative systems, generative approaches, as well as human-computer co-creation. We welcome papers describing original research in the following topics (but not limited to): - Artificial creative systems in domains such as visual arts, architecture, design, sound art, music, poetry, narrative, games, and science - Creative and Generative AI - Computational models of creativity - Evaluation of artificial creative systems - Human-computer collaboration and co-creation - Social and ethical aspects of computational creativity. **** Submission and Presentation instructions **** All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (Springer LNCS) and will be presented at the conference. Please check EPIA 2023 website for more details on submission formats and requirements: https://epia2023.inesctec.pt/?page_id=449 **** Important Dates **** - Paper submission deadline April 28, 2023 - Notification of paper acceptance May 26, 2023 - Camera-ready papers deadline June 15, 2023 - Conference dates September 5-8, 2023 **** Organising Committee **** - Pedro Martins, University of Coimbra, Portugal - João Miguel Cunha, University of Coimbra, Portugal - Helena Sofia Pinto, IST – University of Lisbon, Portugal - María Navarro, Univesidad de Salamanca, Spain - Juan Romero, University of A Coruña, Spain - Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Wed Apr 12 04:41:22 2023 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 04:41:22 +0200 Subject: [iaoa-general] =?utf-8?q?ISAO_2023=2C_July_10-14_-_Call_for_Part?= =?utf-8?q?icipation_=28Interdisciplinary_School_on_Applied_Ontology_held_?= =?utf-8?q?in_Sherbrooke=2C_Qu=C3=A9bec=2C_Canada=29?= Message-ID: <5d1f1803-00a7-8646-7f90-d210d5ac7fe5@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> Ready for a fiesta in ontology education?! Registration opens soon, its early phase ends on June 11; fees detailed below. If needed, request letters of invitation by email [1] (more below). = ISAO 2023 [2] - Call for Participation = The Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO) is the premier educational forum for acquiring and deepening knowledge in ontology - its foundations, applications, and interconnections with related areas. Generously sponsored by the AIJ [3]. July 10-14, 2023 University of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada (in person only, _no_ online participation) [2] https://fois2023.griis.ca/isao-2023/ Target audience - PhD students - PostDocs and researchers - Ontology practitioners from business, industry and society Leading experts in applied ontology (AO), formal ontology, modeling, semantics and neighboring fields teach various basic courses as well as engage in interactive formats for deepening the knowledge of all participants, providing a full immersion experience in AO for all levels of expertise. As yet, facilitators include M. Gruninger, N. Guarino, G. Guizzardi, R. Hoehndorf, M. Keet, O. Kutz and B. Smith (more info below). == Important Dates & Schedule == (coarse structure as of early April) - Registration not before late April - Detailed program planned for early May - Event on July 10-14 (Mon-Fri) - circa 3 days (July 10-12/13) of courses (rather introductory) - circa 2 days (July 13-14) of interactive formats (incl. advanced) We offer 5-day and 2-day registrations, the latter aiming at additional networking and exchange during July 13-14, right before FOIS 2023 [4]. Early (by Sun, June 11) student fees amount to - 320 CAD|225 EUR|240 USD for all 5 days and - 250 CAD|175 EUR|190 USD for the last 2 days. Please find all fees below (student - academic - industry). Cheap accommodation options ease expenses preferentially for student participants. Grants depend on external funding. Early expressions of interest are very welcome, are considered non-binding, and support us in shaping the event further. Invitation letters (e.g. for visa purposes) will be issued on request (include your full work address). With any issues regarding ISAO 2023, please contact us at [1] iaoa.isao2023 at gmail.com Please feel invited to read more details below, to spread the word within your network, and to join us in July! Best regards, Frank Loebe and Daniele Porello = Details as of mid of April 2023 = == Content of Courses == (shall include, as of Apr 2023) - applied ontology overview - ontological analysis and principles - top-level ontologies - confirmed: tutorial on BFO (by Barry Smith) - bio-ontologies - representation of and logics for ontologies - ontology engineering, managements and methods - relations to - conceptual modeling - cognitive science - machine learning & artificial intelligence - semantic web & knowledge graphs - terminology == Facilitators == *Michael Gruninger* (Semantic Technologies Lab, University of Toronto, Canada) *Nicola Guarino* (Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) *Giancarlo Guizzardi* (Semantics, Cybersecurity and Services, University of Twente, The Netherlands) *Robert Hoehndorf* (Bio-Ontology Research Group, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi-Arabia) *Maria Keet* (Knowledge Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa) *Oliver Kutz* (Cognitive and Conceptual Modeling Research Group, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) *Barry Smith* (National Center for Ontological Research, Buffalo, New York, USA) + another pending inquiry == Fee Schedule == Fees are valid and payable in CAD. To indicate them in EUR/USD, fees have been approximated assuming 0.70 EUR/0.75 USD per 1 CAD (and rounding up). See [2,5] for a colored, graphical version. . currency CAD # EUR # USD category, period \ time early|late # early|late # early|late . ----------------------------------------------- - student, 5 days 320 |390 # 225 |275 # 240 |295 - student, last 2 days 250| 300 # 175| 210 # 190| 225 - academic, 5 days 525 |625 # 370 |440 # 395 |470 - academic, last 2 days 280| 330 # 200| 235 # 210| 250 - industry, 5 days 700 |850 # 490 |595 # 525 |640 - industry, last 2 days 425| 525 # 300| 370 # 320| 395 Early registration ends on Sunday, June 11. == Expenses & Grants (tentative info) == - budget accommodation available - in university student housing below 50 CAD/35 EUR/40 USD per night per person - single or double rooms; bathrooms shared with 2-3 rooms; WiFi - information about reserving rooms follows when registering for ISAO - depending on further 3rd party funding decisions, grants may materialize for - waiving or reducing ISAO fees - covering budget accommodation - partial coverage of travel expenses (if at all, in very few cases) == Location Details == University of Sherbrooke 2500, boulevard de l'Université Sherbrooke, Québec Canada J1K 2R1 == Associated Events == Co-located with and - preceding FOIS 2023 [4], the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems held from July 17-20 in person and September 18-20 online - sharing selected sessions with EINS 2023 [6] the first Interdisciplinary Summer School in Digital Health (École d'été interdisciplinaire en numérique de la santé; primarily in French) Complementing ESAO [7], the Educational Series of Applied Ontology, a continuous series of virtual educational sessions. == Sponsors == As yet we very much thank as sponsors - the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) [3] as well as - ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig [8] for its contributions. == Organization == The ISAO series is run by the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) [9] and is held jointly with FOIS every two years, typically in the week just before. ISAO 2023 is the 5th instance, after 2012/14/16/18 [10] and 5 years of an undesired gap, and hosted by the University of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. Thanks to local organization support in 2023 by - Jean-François Ethier - Christina Khnaisser - Anne-Marie Cloutier - Angèle Gosselin - Sarah Bilodeau - Maryse Couture - Karine Gagnon - Jeanne Morin General Chairs - Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany) - Daniele Porello (University of Genoa, Italy) == Contact == [2] iaoa.isao2023 at gmail.com == References == [1] ISAO 2023 contact to chairs by email iaoa.isao2023 at gmail.com [2] ISAO 2023 website https://fois2023.griis.ca/isao-2023/ [several updates pending due to technical reasons; cf. also [5]] [3] Artificial Intelligence Journal https://aij.ijcai.org/ [4] FOIS 2023 website https://fois2023.griis.ca/ [5] ISAO 2023 post at the IAOA website [8] https://iaoa.org/index.php/2023/04/12/isao-2023-call-for-participation-fee-schedule/ [6] EINS 2023 website https://eins.griis.ca/ [7] ESAO series website https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO [8] ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig - Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence https://scads.ai [9] IAOA website https://iaoa.org/ [10] ISAO history pages https://iaoa.org/index.php/isao-history/