March 2018 Newsletter
Dear IAOA members,
herewith you receive the March newsletter on events that cover
research in ontology (conferences, workshops, etc.) or are associated
with IAOA (e.g., meetings of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and
Committees). These newsletters shall inform you about upcoming events
and their corresponding deadlines. They may also include short reports
of interesting past events, for example, by IAOA members who attended
them. The planned frequency of the newsletters ranges from monthly to
bi-monthly. This service complements the calendars of events [1] and
deadlines [2], which we run for gathering event information.
Should you have any further suggestions, comments or questions on this
service, please let us know by writing to the Association [3] or
publicly to the membership [4].
Sincerely,
IAOA Executive Council
[1] calendar: “IAOA Check Events”
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=iaoa.member%40googlemail.com
[2] calendar: “IAOA Check Deadlines”
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=os3b7er3ad4ela965ggjoa7u80%40group.calendar.google.com
[3] info@iaoa.org
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UPCOMING EVENTS SPONSORED/SUPPORTED BY IAOA
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* Ontology Summit 2018: Weekly virtual sessions
January-April, default dates: each Wednesday, 90 min session
at 9:00 PST / 12:00 EST / 17:00 GMT|UTC / 18:00 CET
March sessions:
*** Mar 07: Harmonizing diverse conceptualizations in
multi-context systems engineering
*** Mar 14: Upper ontologies for specifying context
*** Mar 21: Contexts for Integration and Interoperability
*** Mar 28: Contexts in the Open Knowledge Network
Website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2018
* Ontology Summit 2018: Symposium
April 30-May 1, NITRD, Washington DC (USA)
Website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/Ontology_Summit_2018_Symposium
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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* UKON 2018 – UK Ontology Network
April 30, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK
Website: http://ukontology.org/
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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* FOIS 2018 10th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
September 17-21, Cape Town, South Africa
Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, April 13 (paper submission)
Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za
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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* ICBO 2018 – International Conference on Biological Ontology
August 7-10, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, March 9 (workshops and tutorials proposals submission)
*** Wednesday, April 25 (paper, software demo, early career and workshop paper submission)
*** Tuesday, May 15 (poster abstract submission)
Website: http://icbo2018.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/
* ISWC 2018 – International Semantic Web Conference
October 8-12, Monterey, California, USA
Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, March 30 (abstract submission)
*** Friday, April 6 (paper submission)
Website: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/
* ISWS 2018 – International Semantic Web Research Summer School
July 1-7, Bertinoro, Italy
Deadline for applications:
*** Saturday, March 31
Website: http://isws2018.semanticwebschool.org/
* SEMANTiCS 2018 – International Conference on Semantic Systems
September 10-13, Vienna, Austria
Deadline for submissions:
*** Sunday, April 1 (workshop proposals submission)
*** Sunday, April 15 (abstract submission (research tracks))
*** Sunday, April 22 (paper submission (research tracks))
Website: https://2018.semantics.cc/
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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES
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* Executive Council Meeting
next: n.189, March 5, 2018, 14:30 UTC
default dates: bi-weekly, Mondays, 14:30 UTC
EC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaorga/council/council.html
* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG
next: n.52, March 5, 2018, 18:30 UTC
default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 18:30 UTC
Mailing list archive: https://listserv.ovgu.de/pipermail/iaoa-swao/
SWAO SIG Meeting Webpages:
next: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_52
last: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_51
* EduTC Meetings – Technical Committee on Education
next: n.27, March 6, 2018, 15:00 UTC
default dates: 1st Tuesday of each month, 15:00 UTC
EduTC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaTC/TCeducation/TCeducation.php
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STATUS OF FUTURE EVENTS INVOLVING IAOA
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* FOIS 2018 – Formal Ontology in Information Systems and
ISAO 2018 – Interdisciplinary School on Ontological Analysis
FOIS 2018 website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Event dates:
** ISAO: September 10-14 interdisciplinary school
** FOIS: September 17-18 workshops
September 19-21 main conference
Important dates for FOIS:
** Friday, March 2 (workshop/tutorial proposal)
** Thursday, March 15 (workshop/tutorial notification)
** Friday, April 13 (paper submission)
** Wednesday, May 30 (paper notification)
** Sunday, June 24 (camera-ready)
Status:
** FOIS Roles filled:
PC Co-chair: Stefano Borgo ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy
PC Co-chair: Pascal Hitzler Wright State Univ., Dayton, Ohio, USA
Publicity chair: Karl Hammar Jnkping Univ., Sweden
Early Career Symposium Chairs:
Emilio Sanfilippo CNRS, Nantes, France
Maria Hedblom Otto-von-Guericke Univ., Magdeburg, Germany
Zubeida Khan Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa
Local Chair: Maria Keet Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa
General Chair: Oliver Kutz Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy