From selja.seppala.unige at gmail.com Sat Jan 21 21:29:45 2023 From: selja.seppala.unige at gmail.com (=?utf-8?B?U2VsamEgU2VwcMOkbMOk?=) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 20:29:45 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] FOIS 2023 final CfP - deadline extended Message-ID: *** Apologies for cross-posting *** FOIS 2023: 3rd Call for Papers - deadline extended ============================== 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/ New dates ========== Abstract submission : January 31, 2023 Full paper submission : February 12, 2023 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 (NEW !) =============== - Abstract submission deadline: January 31, 2023 - Paper submission deadline: February 12, 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... URL: From Guendalina.Righetti at stud-inf.unibz.it Thu Jan 26 09:08:50 2023 From: Guendalina.Righetti at stud-inf.unibz.it (Righetti Guendalina (Student Com18)) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 08:08:50 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_submissions_-_ECS=40FOIS2023?= =?utf-8?q?=2C_July_17-20=2C_Sherbrooke=2C_Qu=C3=A9bec=2C_Canada?= Message-ID: EarlyCareerSymposium @ FOIS2023 - Call for Submissions Part of the 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems held July 17-20 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada Important Dates: Submission Deadline: March 15th Notification: April 15th Website: ​​https://fois2023.griis.ca/ The purpose of the Early Career Symposium is to provide students and early career researchers with a stage to present their work and receive feedback from more experienced researchers. Early career researchers will be able to discuss their research directions, ideas, goals, methods, and (possibly) results. The Early Career Symposium aims to provide students with helpful guidance on different aspects of their research from established researchers and other attendees. Finally, the Early Career Symposium seeks to facilitate students networking within the FOIS research community. The topics of interest of the ECS are the same as the main conference. The symposium is primarily designed for PhD students, but it is open as well for recently graduated PhDs. Format: The ECS will be held as an on-site event during the FOIS conference. It will consist of: 1) a mentoring lunch, in which ECS participants will be assigned senior researchers to provide feedback on participants’ work; 2) a fast-talks session, where participants will have the opportunity to advertise their work in a 5 minutes speech in front of the general audience of the conference; 3) a traditional poster session. With the ECS, the next generation of researchers at FOIS gets an opportunity to network and build up their careers. To this aim, we also plan to have an informal ECS/students dinner during the conference — you will be asked to choose whether to participate in the registration process. Submissions: Submission deadline: March 15th Notification of acceptance: April 15th To join the ECS, candidates should write a summary (up to 3 pages excluding references) of their research project and upload it together with their short CV. You can find the template here: latex, doc, docx, odt, pdf. The template is meant to be used as a general reference to organize the description of the submitted research project in different sections with specific contents. Make sure that the final version of your submission is in a single pdf file. Submissions will be reviewed by selected members of the FOIS Program Committee. Final submission is via EasyChair (see submission instructions):https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fois2023. 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URL: From Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it Sat Jan 28 13:28:10 2023 From: Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it (Kutz Oliver) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 12:28:10 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] =?utf-8?q?DL_2023_-_First_Call_For_Papers=2C_Sept?= =?utf-8?b?ZW1iZXIgMuKAkzQsIDIwMjMsIFJob2RlcywgR3JlZWNl?= Message-ID: <3C795941-D028-4CA0-87A0-4ED02ECD38AE@unibz.it> DL 2023 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 36th International Workshop on Description Logics, DL 2023 September 2–4, 2023, Rhodes, Greece Website: https://dl2023.w.uib.no/ Contact: dl2023 at easychair.org IMPORTANT DATES * 2nd June 2023 Paper registration & abstract * 9th June 2023 Paper submission * 1st July, 2023 Student grants applications * 26th July 2023 Notification * 15 August 2023 Camera-ready version due * 2–4 September Workshop It is planned to hold DL 2023 as an in-person event, that is, at least one author of every accepted paper has to physically attend the workshop. GENERAL INFORMATION The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. It is the forum in which those interested in description logics, both from academia and industry, meet to discuss ideas, share information and compare experiences. The 36th edition will be held in Rhodes, Greece, between September 2nd and 4th 2023. It will be co-located with KR 23 & NMR 23, the 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning and the 21st International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning. WORKSHOP SCOPE We invite contributions on all aspects of description logic, including, but not limited to the following: Foundations of description logics: decidability and complexity of reasoning, expressive power, novel inference problems, inconsistency management, reasoning techniques, modularisation, ontology extraction, abductive and inductive reasoning, learnability Extensions of description logics: closed-world and non-monotonic reasoning, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, query answering, reasoning over dynamic information Integration of description logics with other formalisms: database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, rule-based systems, knowledge graphs, hybrid reasoning approaches Applications of description logics: ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, ontology-based data access, semi-structured data, graph-structured data, linked data, document management, natural language, hybrid approaches combining logic and learning, explanations, planning, Semantic Web, cloud computing, conceptual modeling, web services, business processes, practical experiences, case studies, feasibility studies Systems and tools of all kinds around description logics: reasoners, ontology editors, ontology alignment, ontology extraction, ontology learning and mining, other support for ontology development, database schema design, query rewriting/answering/optimization, data integration, implementation and optimization techniques, benchmarking, evaluation, modeling STUDENT SUPPORT Support for students wishing to attend DL 2023 will be provided either directly by DL organizers or in collaboration with KR 2023. Details will be announced in due time. SUBMISSIONS DL reviewing is *single-blind*, so the names of the authors will be visible to the reviewers and should be indicated on the submitted files. We allow anonymous submissions on request (see below). Submissions may be of two types: A – Regular papers of up to 11 pages (excluding references) B – Extended abstracts of 2–4 pages (excluding references) Both regular papers and abstracts must be formatted using the new CEURART style, based on the DL-specific template available on: * https://dl2023.w.uib.no/submissions/ and submitted via: * https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2023 Submissions of type A must contain enough substance that they can be cited in other publications and may not have appeared before. A clearly marked appendix with additional proofs and evaluation data may be included. For submissions of type B, we highly encourage a clearly marked appendix with additional proofs, evaluation data, or extended version of your paper, which was accepted at another conference or which you submitted or plan to submit to another conference. Abstracts of papers accepted or under review at other venues must clearly state the venue where the paper has been submitted alongside its status. The appendix will be read at the discretion of the reviewers and will not be included in the proceedings. The appendix does not need to be in the CEURART format. Accepted submissions of both types will be selected for either oral or poster presentation at the workshop. Submissions will be judged solely based on their content, and the type of submission will have no bearing on the decision between oral and poster presentation. The proceedings will be made publicly available via CEUR-WS.org. In justified cases, if you wish your submission to be handled anonymously (i.e., double-blind), please send an e-mail to dl2023 at easychair.org explaining the reasons. You will receive instructions on how to proceed. ORGANIZATION General Chair: Carsten Lutz, Leipzig University, Germany PC Co-Chairs: Ana Ozaki, University of Bergen, Norway Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Local Chair: Pavlos Peppas, University of Patras, Greece Publicity Co-Chairs: Ricardo Guimarães, University of Bergen, Norway Maurice Funk, Leipzig University, Germany -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com Sat Jan 28 14:24:09 2023 From: maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com (Maria Hedblom) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 14:24:09 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] =?utf-8?q?CfP=3A_SAIS=E2=80=9923_-_The_35th_Swedi?= =?utf-8?q?sh_AI_Society=E2=80=99s_annual_workshop=2C_12-13th_of_Ju?= =?utf-8?q?ne=2C_Karlskrona=2C_Sweden?= Message-ID: *(Apologies for possible cross-postings)* CfP: SAIS’23 - The 35th Swedish AI Society’s annual workshop, 12-13th of June, Karlskrona, Sweden We invite you to submit papers to SAIS 2023, The Swedish AI Society’s annual workshop 2023. It will be hosted in Karlskrona, Sweden, on June 12-13, 2023. The event is hosted by BTH - Blekinge Institute of Technology, and is planned to be an on-campus event in Karlskrona, Sweden. SAIS was formed in 1982 and the annual workshop has seen a growing number of participants joining from all over Sweden, the Nordic countries and internationally. During the workshop, the scientific program consisting of paper presentations and keynote speakers (more info to come), is intermixed with networking opportunities with both academics and industry partners as part of the event's social program. We invite four types of contributions to SAIS 2023, from all areas of AI research, from Sweden and the rest of the world: - 6-10 pages full paper describing original contributions. General descriptions of current ongoing projects are also acceptable. This category will be published in the proceedings of SAIS 2023 unless the authors choose to opt-out of this. - 2 pages extended abstracts of papers published by or submitted to other AI venues, e.g. AI journals and AI conferences, within the last 12 months. These will not be included in the proceedings, but can still be presented. - 2 pages extended abstract describing the industrial application of AI, demonstrating use cases that can leverage machine learning and AI techniques in a real-world setting. The first author should be from the industry. - 2 pages extended abstract describing ongoing Ph.D. projects (the first author has to be a Ph.D. student). The problem statement and research question/s have to be clearly introduced and motivated. The program committee will review all the papers and extended abstracts. The accepted contributions will be presented either as oral presentations, practical demonstrations or poster sessions. All papers will be carefully reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the electronic workshop proceedings (more details will be communicated). Copyright stays with the authors and authors of previously unpublished papers accepted to the SAIS workshop are encouraged to submit these to other workshops or conferences. All submissions should be in PDF and must be written in English using the Latex template available here All papers and abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair, see workshop webpage for the URL. Please find more information about the workshop at: www.bth.se/sais23 Important dates: Submission deadline: 2023-03-31 Notifications of acceptance: 2023-04-23 Camera ready (tentative): 2023-05-14 Conference: 2023-06-12 – 13 Organizing Committee Martin Boldt, BTH, martin.boldt at bth.se Anton Borg, BTH, anton.borg at bth.se Veselka Boeva, BTH, veselka.boeva at bth.se Håkan Grahn, BTH, hakan.grahn at bth.se Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University, maria.m.hedblom at gmail.com Steering Chair Fredrik Heintz, LiU, fredrik.heintz at liu.se -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: