APRIL 2020 – NEWSLETTER

Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the April 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. Please notice that such calendars are now easily accessible from the right sidebar of the landing page of the IAOA website [3] and from the Events page [4].

Should you have any further suggestions, comments or questions on this service, please let us know by writing to the Association [5] or publicly to the membership [6].

Should you be aware of events that you wish to be added to the calendar, you may write to [7].

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] https://iaoa.org/

[4] https://iaoa.org/index.php/events/

[5] info@iaoa.org

[6] iaoa-member@ovgu.de

[7] calendars@iaoa.org

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BOLZANO SUMMER OF KNOWLEDGE
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FOIS 2020 will be part of a great wider event, the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge, which is supposed to happen in September 2020; JOWO and ISAO will also be part of it.However, given the coronavirus crisis, the situation is at the moment unclear, though several conferences including EKAW 2020, ICBO 2020, and FOIS 2020 have already confirmed that papers accepted to these conferences will be published in the respective proceedings sticking to the original timeframe.

Please check the webpages for updates:

*** BoSK 2020: https://summerofknowledge.inf.unibz.it
*** FOIS 2020: https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it
*** JOWO 2020: https://iaoa.org/jowo/
*** ISAO 2020: https://isao2020.inf.unibz.it
*** EKAW 2020: https://ekaw2020.inf.unibz.it/
*** ICBO 2020: https://icbo2020.inf.unibz.it/

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* 5th Workshop on Formal Reasoning about Causation, Responsibility, & Explanations in Science & Technology (CREST 2020)
April 25, Dublin, Ireland

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/crest2020

* 6th International Workshop on Computational Terminology (COMPUTERM 2020)
May 16, Marseille, France

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/computerm2020

* 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2020)
May 31 – June 4, Heraklion, Greece (virtual meeting)

Website: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/

* 4th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2020)
June 4-5, New York, NY, USA

Website: https://waset.org/social-robotics-conference-in-june-2020-in-new-york

* 32nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAISE 2020)
June 8-12, Grenoble, France (virtual meeting)

Website: http://caise20.imag.fr/

* 2nd International Workshop on Semantics and the Web ForTransport (Sem4Tra 2020)
June 9-12, Helsinki, Finland (exploring virtual conference options)

Website: https://sem4tra.linkeddata.es/

* Fair Heritage: Digital Methods, Scholarly Editing and Tools for Cultural and Natural Heritage (FAIR 2020)
June 17-18, Tours, France (virtual meeting)

Website: http://www.lestudium-ias.com/event/fair-heritage-digital-methods-scholarly-editing-and-tools-cultural-and-natural-heritage

* 8th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop (LDAC 2020)
June 17-19, Dublin, Ireland (virtual meeting)

Website: http://linkedbuildingdata.net/ldac2020/

* Journées francophones d’Ingénierie des Connaissances @ Plate-Forme Intelligence Artificielle (IC@PFIA 2020)
June 29- July 3, Angers, France

Website: http://pfia2020.fr/ic-2020/

* 10th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS 2020)
June 30 – July 3, Biarritz, France (partially virtual meeting)

Website: https://wims2020.sigappfr.org/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* 11th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2020)
September 14-17, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, May 13 (papers submission) !!!EXTENDED DEADLINE!!!

Website: https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* 22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2020)
September 16-20, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Deadline for submission:
*** Thursday, April 23 (abstracts submission)
*** Thursday, April 30 (papers submission)

Website: https://ekaw2020.inf.unibz.it/

* 6th Workshop on Semantic Deep Learning (SemDeep-6@ IJCAI-PRICAI 2020)
July 11-17, Yokohama, Japan

Deadline for submission:
*** Friday, April 24 (papers submission)
*** Friday, May 15 (WiC-TSV challenge submission)

Website: http://www.dfki.de/~declerck/semdeep-6/

* 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2020)
September 7-10, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (postponed to 2021, proceedings will be published)

Deadline for submission:
*** Saturday, April 25 (abstracts submission)
*** Friday, May 8 (papers submission)

Website: https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/

* Second International Workshop On Semantics And The Web For Transport (Sem4Tra 2020)
June 9, Helsinki, Finland

Deadline for submissions:
*** Sunday, April 26 (papers submission)

Website: https://sem4tra.linkeddata.es/

* 29th IEEE International Conference On Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020)
August 31 – September 4, Naples, Italy

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, April 29 (papers submission)
*** Saturday, June 20 (late break reports submission)

Website: http://ro-man2020.unina.it/

* ​​2nd Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference (​​KGSWC 2020)
July 28-31, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

Deadline for submissions:
*** Thursday, April 30 (demo/posters submission)

Website: http://www.kgswc.org/

* 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2020)
September 7-11, Coimbra, Portugal

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, May 8 (digital sound art submission)
*** Monday, May 25 (short papers submission)

Website: http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc20/

* Fair Heritage: Digital Methods, Scholarly Editing and Tools for Cultural and Natural Heritage (FAIR 2020)
June 17-19, Tours, France (virtual meeting)

Deadline for submissions:
*** Subday, May 10 (abstracts submission)

Website: http://www.lestudium-ias.com/event/fair-heritage-digital-methods-scholarly-editing-and-tools-cultural-and natural-heritage

* The 14th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing. Special Track on Semantic Web for the Internet of Agents (SWIA 2020)
September 21-23, Scilla (RC), Italy

Deadline for submissions:
*** Sunday, May 10 (papers submission)

Website: idc2020.unirc.it

* 1st International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH 2020)
September 21-22, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, May 15 (papers submission)

* 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020)
November 2-6, Athens, Greece (virtual meeting)

Deadline for submission:
*** Friday, May 15 (abstracts submission)
*** Monday, May 18 (doctoral consortium submission)
*** Friday, May 22 (papers submission)
*** Friday, June 26 (posters, demos and industry papers)

Website: https://iswc2020.semanticweb.org/

* 23rd International Conference on Discovery Science (DS)
October 19-21, Thessaloniki, Greece

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, May 20 (abstracts submission)
*** Monday, May 25 (papers submission)

Website: http://ds2020.csd.auth.gr/

* 11th International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2020)
September 16-19, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Deadline for submission:
*** Monday, May 25 (papers submission)

Website: https://icbo2020.inf.unibz.it/

* 17th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2020)
September 12-18, Rhodes, Greece

Deadline for submission:
*** Monday, June 8 (workshop papers submission)
*** Monday, June 15 (recent published research track submission)

Website: https://kr2020.inf.unibz.it/

* 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020)
August 31 – September 2, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Deadline for submissions:
*** Saturday, June 20 (Doctoral consortium applications submission)

Website: http://ecai2020.eu/

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA COMMITTEES AND SIGS
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* Executive Council (EC) Meeting

next meeting: n.239, April 28, 14:00 UTC
default dates: bi-weekly, on Tuesdays, 14:00 UTC

EC Webpage:
https://iaoa.org/index.php/about/organization/executive-council/

* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG

next meeting: n.78, May 4, 14:00 EDT
default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 15:00 EDT

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

SWAO wiki: https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/SWAO:Home

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:
https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/SWAO:Conference_Call_20200406

Next SWAO Meeting Webpage:
https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/SWAO:Conference_Call_20200504

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ONTOLOGY SUMMIT
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* Ontology Summit 2020
April 22, 12:00 EST, virtual meeting
(the Ontology Summit is organized and run by the Ontolog Community)
default dates: every Wednesday, 12.00 EST

Websites:
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2020
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/WikiHomePage
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2020_04_22

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FOIS 2020 – EXTENDED DEADLINE: MAY 13, 2020

Foremost, the FOIS 2020 organizing committee hopes you are all in good health and not too low spirits in the present situation!

The updated deadline for submission to FOIS is MAY 13.

Though it is not possible at the moment to reach a final decision about the shape of  the conference event itself, we can announce that the organisation team of FOIS 2020 is committed to publishing the FOIS proceedings with IOS Press in 2020, in electronic format with permanent open access.

Thus, the paper submission and selection process will run just as expected. FOIS will happen as a face-to-face event in Bolzano when it is safe to travel. Ideally, in September 2020 but otherwise at a later date in 2021, in coordination with other BOSK events.

Physical attendance at FOIS 2020 will be optional for the authors, regardless of whether the conference will happen in September 2020 or at some later date in 2021.

We warmly invite you all again to submit your papers to FOIS 2020.

The FOIS 2020 Organizing Committee

IAOA first 2020 Virtual Assembly Announcement

Dear IAOA members,

Our Statutes [1] require the Association’s Financial Statement to be formally approved every year by a (virtual) assembly.

This is a formal invitation to participate in the first 2020 virtual assembly, whose main purpose is to discuss and approve the 2019 Financial Statement. The report from the Auditors on the Financial Statement and the proposed budget for 2020 will also be made available.

The auditors are currently examining the financial documents.
We will send a brief notification as soon as the Financial Statement,  approved by the auditors, is available, by April 16. Then the discussion on it (and possibly other issues concerning the Association) can take place until April 23, 2020. Finalized details will be published by April 28, 2020. The voting period will be April 29-May 6, 2020 — save these dates!

Everyone with an active IAOA membership is eligible to vote. Detailed voting instructions will be available from the Assembly page [2] and shall be distributed anew at ballot opening.

The Assembly may approve the Financial Statement by simple majority; there is no quorum. The outcome of the voting will be announced to the members’ mailing list by May 8, 2020.

Laure Vieu
President, IAOA

[1] https://iaoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/iaoa-ch-statute-2016-06-23-en_v12.pdf

[2] https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/IAOA_Assembly_2020_04