February 2018 Newsletter

Dear IAOA members,

 

herewith you receive the February 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

 

[4] iaoa-member@ovgu.de

 

 

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* AAAI 2018 – 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

February 2-7, New Orleans (Louisiana, USA)

Website: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai18.php

 

*CoCoSym 2018 – Cognitive Computation Symposium: Thinking Beyond Deep Learning

February, 27, London (UK)

Website: http://www.neural-symbolic.org/CoCoSym2018/index.html

 

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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, March 2 (workshop/tutorial proposals submission)

***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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*UKON 2018 – UK Ontology Network

April 30, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

 

Deadline for submissions:

***Friday, March 2 (abstract submission)

Website: http://ukontology.org/

 

 

*ICBO 2018 – International Conference on Biomedical Ontology

August 7-10, Corvallis, Oregon, US

 

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 Conference on the Semantic Web

October 8-12, Monterey, California, US

 

Deadline for submissions:

***Friday, March 30 (abstract submission)

***Friday, April 6 (paper submission)

Website: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/

 

* ISWS 2018 – The International Semantic Web Research Summer School

July, 1-7, Bertinoro, Italy

 

Deadline for applications:

***Saturday, March 31

Website: http://isws2018.semanticwebschool.org/

 

 

 

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES

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* EduTC Meetings – Technical Committee on Education

next: n.26, February 6, 2018, time newly TBD

default dates: newly TBD

EduTC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaTC/TCeducation/TCeducation.php

 

* Executive Council Meeting

next: n.187, February 5, 2018, 14:30 UTC

default dates: bi-weekly, Mondays, time newly TBD

EC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaorga/council/council.html

 

* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG

next: n.51, February 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/

 

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:

http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_50

 

* Ontology Summit 2018: Sessions continue in January

next: February 7, 2018, 17:00 18:30 UTC

default dates: Wednesdays, 17:00 18:30 UTC

website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2018

 

 

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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

 

Provisional 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