June 2018 Newsletter

Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the June 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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* NASSLLI 2018 North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
June 23-29, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, US

Website: https://www.cmu.edu/nasslli2018/

* WIMS 2018 The 8th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
June 25-27, Novi Sad, Serbia

Website: https://wims2018.pmf.uns.ac.rs/

* IJCAI-ECAI 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
July 13-19, Stockholm, Sweden

Website: https://www.ijcai-18.org/

* ESSLLI 2018 30th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
August 6-17, Sofia, Bulgaria

Website: http://esslli2018.folli.info/

* ICBO 2018 – International Conference on Biomedical Ontology
August 7-10, Corvallis, Oregon, US

Website: http://icbo2018.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/

* CARLA 2018 Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application
August 11-12, Osnabrueck, Germany

Website: https://www.conceptuccino.uni-osnabrueck.de/carla_workshop/carla_2018.html

* NeSy 2018 13th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning
August 23-24, Prague, Czech Republic

Website: http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy18/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* Industry and Demonstrations Track @FOIS 2018
September 17-21, Cape Town, South Africa

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, June 25 (paper and demonstration description submission)

Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=359

* JOWO 2018 – Joint Ontology Workshops @FOIS 2018
September 17-18, Cape Town, South Africa

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, June 25 (paper submission)

applicable to these workshops:

** BOG@JOWO Workshop on Bad Ontology
Website: http://bog.inf.unibz.it/

** CAOS-CEX@JOWO Workshop on Cognition And OntologieS + Explainable AI
Website: http://caos.inf.unibz.it/

** DAO-SI@JOWO Workshop on Data meets Applied Ontologies in Open Science and Innovation
Website: https://www.inf.unibz.it/smart/index.php/2018/03/27/daosi2018/

** EPINON II 2nd International Workshop on Epistemology in Ontologies
Website: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/epinon2018/home.html

** KODeP@JOWO Workshop on Ontology for Heterogeneous Knowledge in Design and Planning
Website: https://kodepjowo.wordpress.com/

** Onto.Com – 6th International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modelling
Website: http://www.mis.ugent.be/ontocom2018/

* Ontology Competition @FOIS 2018
September 17-21, Cape Town, South Africa

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, June 29 (ontology submission)

Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=280

* Early Career Symposium @FOIS 2018
September 17-21, Cape Town, South Africa

Deadline for submissions:
*** Saturday, June 30 (summary of research submission)

Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=236

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF SPECIAL ISSUES ON APPLIED ONTOLOGY
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* Meaning in Context

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, July 23

Website: https://submissions.iospress.com/applied-ontology/CIM

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* SEMANTiCS 2018 The Linked Data Conference: 14th International Conference on Semantic Systems
September 10-13, University of Vienna, Austria

Deadline for submissions:
*** Sunday, July 1 (tutorial submission)

Website: http://2018.semantics.cc

* EKAW 2018 – 21st International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
November 12-16, Nancy, France

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, July 2 (abstract submission)
*** Monday, July 9 (paper submission)

Website: https://project.inria.fr/ekaw2018/

* DL 31st International Workshop on Description Logics
October 26-29, Tempe, Arizona, US

Deadline for submissions:
*** Saturday, July 14 (paper registration)
*** Saturday, July 21 (paper submission)

Website: http://dl.kr.org/dl2018/

* NeSy 2018 13th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning
August, 23-24, Prague, Czech Republic

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, August 1 (late breaking paper submission)

Website: http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy18/

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES
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* Executive Council Meetings

next: n.196, June 25, 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.56, July 2, 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_55

* EduTC Meetings Technical Committee on Education

next: TBD (please check mailing list)
default dates: 1st Tuesday of each month, 15:00 UTC

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

Mailing list archive: https://listserv.ovgu.de//pipermail/iaoa-education/

* Ontology Summit 2018:

Communiqu is now complete. It is available at http://bit.ly/2JvrxIi

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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
Location: Cape Town, South Africa

FOIS 2018 website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za
ISAO 2018 website: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za

Event dates:
** ISAO: September 10-15 interdisciplinary school
** FOIS: September 17-18 workshops
September 19-21 main conference

Important dates for FOIS and ISAO:
** Sunday, July 15 – early registration deadline

=== FOIS Keynote Speakers ===

+ Arianna Betti (University of Amsterdam)
+ Alessandro Oltramari (Bosch Research and Technology Center, Pittsburgh)
+ Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin and University of Salzburg)

=== FOIS Satellite Activities ===

website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=54

+ 7 workshops (JOWO 2018)
+ 2 tutorials
+ an Early Career Symposium (ECS)
+ a demo and industry track
+ an ontology competition

FOIS is preceded by the 4th Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO).

=== ISAO Lecturers ===

* Arina Britz (Stellenbosch University)
Foundations of Description Logics

* Maureen Donnelly (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Mereology, Location and Time

* Maria Keet (University of Cape Town)
Semantics and Conceptual Modelling

* Stefan Schulz (Medical University of Graz)
Biomedical Ontology

== ISAO Guest lecturer ==

* Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin)

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REVIEWS AND RESULTS OF PAST EVENTS
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* Ontology Summit 2018
composed of weekly sessions between January and April 2018
Symposium held on April 30 and May 1, 2018

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

Symposium website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/Ontology_Summit_2018_Symposium

Communique of Ontology Summit 2018: http://bit.ly/2JvrxIi

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