February 2017 Newsletter

Dear IAOA members,

herewith we start a newsletter series 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.

We hope you will find such updates useful and welcome proposals to add events the scope of which covers (elements of) research in ontology. 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

[4] iaoa-member@ovgu.de

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UPCOMING EVENTS CO-ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* 2017 Ontology Summit (weekly sessions: February 22 – May 10, 2017)
The Launch session will be held on Wednesday, February 22, 2017,
starting at 17:30 UTC (**). We will have presentations from each of
the track champions, outlining their plans for upcoming sessions.

Websites:
** Ontology Summit webpage
http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2017
** Launch Session webpage (Feb 22, 2017)
http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2017_02_22
** local times of Launch Session start time (17:30 UTC)
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170222T1730

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UPCOMING EVENTS SPONSORED/SUPPORTED BY IAOA
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* FOUST 2017 – The Foundational Stance (workshop)
February 27-28, University of Bolzano, Italy

Website: http://foust.inf.unibz.it/
Involvement: IAOA funding of 500 EUR (EC meeting n.164, Feb 13)

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS SPONSORED/SUPPORTED BY IAOA
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* AISB CAOS 2017 – Cognition And OntologieS (2nd workshop)
April 18-21, University of Bath, UK

Deadline for submission: Tuesday, February 28 (all submissions)
Website: http://caos.inf.unibz.it/
Involvement: IAOA funding of 500 EUR (EC meeting n.164, Feb 13)

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* LDK 2017 – Language, Data and Knowledge (1st Conference)
June 19-20, Galway, Ireland

Extended deadline for submission: Thursday, February 23
Website: http://ldk2017.org/

* IDC 2017 – 11th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed
Computing
October 11-13, Belgrade, Serbia

Deadline for submission: Tuesday, April 4 (papers)
Website: http://idc2017.pmf.uns.ac.rs/

* ER 2017 – 36th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
November 6-9, Valencia, Spain

Deadlines for submission:
** Monday, April 10 (abstract submission)
** Monday, April 17 (paper submission)
Website: http://er2017.pros.webs.upv.es/

* DL 2017 – 30th International Workshop on Description Logics
July 18-21, Montpellier, France

Deadlines for submission:
** Friday, April 28 (paper registration)
** Monday, May 8 (paper submission)
Website: https://project.inria.fr/dl2017/

* ISWC 2017 – 16th International Semantic Web Conference
October 21-25, Vienna, Austria

Deadlines for submission:
** Monday, May 8 (abstract submission)
** Monday, May 15 (paper submission)
Website: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/

* SEMANTiCS 2017 – The Linked Data Conference
13th International Conference on Semantic Systems
September 11-14, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Deadlines for submission:
** Wednesday, May 17, 2017 (abstracts)
** Wednesday, May 24, 2017 (papers)
Website: http://2017.semantics.cc

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES
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* Executive Council Meeting n.165, March 06, 2017
EC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaorga/council/council.html

* EduTC Meetings – Technical Committee on Education
Default dates: under redetermination as of March 2017
(was: 1st Wednesday of each month, 14:30 UTC)
date for n.18 (in March 2017): TBD more precisely
EduTC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaTC/TCeducation/TCeducation.php

* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG
Default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 18:30 UTC
yields: n.41 – March 06, 2017, 18:30 UTC
n.42 – April 03, 2017, 18:30 UTC
Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:
http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_40

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STATUS OF FUTURE EVENTS INVOLVING IAOA
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* 2017 IAOA Summer Institute
University of Toronto, Canada

Dates: exact dates TBD in the next EC meeting n.165, Mar 06, 2017, likely in the 1st half of August 2017
Duration: 4 or 5 days
Website: TBA
Status: initial announcement planned for around March 01, 2017

* ONTOBRAS 2017 – 9th Brazilian Ontology Research Seminar
August 28-30, 2017, Brasilia, Brazil

Website: TBA
Involvement: IAOA funding of 1,000 EUR (EC meeting n.164, Feb 13)

* JOWO 2017 – 3rd Joint Ontology Workshops
Dates: targeting at November or December 2017
Status: early planning and coordination phase

* FOIS 2018 – Formal Ontology in Information Systems and
ISAO 2018 – Interdisciplinary School on Ontological Analysis
(it is intended that both events are temporally well-matched)

Dates and location: TBD
Status: IAOA Executive Council reviews proposals to determine
local host(s)/location