CALL FOR FUNDING REQUESTS FOR 2020/2021

Dear IAOA members,

one of IAOA’s missions is to foster research on Ontology and the dissemination thereof. The Executive Council is seeking proposals to sponsor scientific events in the domain of Applied Ontology. Given the current pandemic situation, we are open to proposals of physical as well as virtual meetings, e.g., workshops, conferences, summer schools. The goal is to support new initiatives in the community at large rather than to provide repeated funding. The events eligible should be scheduled to take place between July 2020 and June 2021.

If you would like to organize a scientific event with the support of IAOA, please provide the following information:

1.) Event title and description of topic
2.) Primary organizer contact information (with email address)
3.) Names and affiliations of all organizers; please indicate
who among the organizers is currently an IAOA member
4.) Dates (approximately, if no dates are fixed yet) and venue
5.) Event of which the event is a satellite (if applicable)
6.) Pointer to descriptions of previous editions of the event, if any
7.) Format of the event and schedule
(for example, paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, etc.)
8.) How much money you need from IAOA (up to 500 Euros per event)
and how it is planned to be used
9.) Any additional funding from sources other than the IAOA
(already confirmed or targeted)
10.) Plans for dissemination of the event’s result(s)
(publication in proceedings, special issue in journals, etc.)
11.) Projected audience: numbers, level
(students, academics, researchers, business people, etc.)
12.) Other information worth mentioning (program committee, etc.)

DEADLINE

Submission of proposals: 25 June 2020 (Thursday; UTC-12)

CONTACT INFORMATION

Submissions and questions regarding funding proposals should be sent to secretary@iaoa.org .

Best regards,
Frank Loebe
(IAOA Secretary)

MAY 2020 – NEWSLETTER

Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the May 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 is part of a great wider event, the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge; JOWO and ISAO are also part of it. However, given the coronavirus crisis, the situation is at the moment not completely clear, the latest updates are the following:

*** FOIS 2020: the in-person meeting is postponed to Sept 13-16, 2021, while the proceedings will be made freely available online towards the end of 2020.
*** JOWO 2020: among the workshops originally included in JOWO 2020, some will take place as virtual events, others are postponed to JOWO 2021. Please check the specific websites for more information.
*** ISAO 2020: the in-person summer school is postponed to September 2021
*** EKAW 2020: will be a virtual event in September 2020 with publication of proceedings sticking to the original timeframe.
*** ICBO 2020: will be a virtual event in September 2020 with publication of 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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* 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2020)
June 2-4, 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/

* 20th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2020)
June 9-12, Helsinki, Finland (virtual meeting)

Website: https://icwe2020.webengineering.org/

* 2nd International Workshop on Semantics and the Web ForTransport (Sem4Tra 2020)
June 9, Helsinki, Finland (virtual meeting)

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/

* 12th Biennial Collective Intentionality Conference (Social Ontology 2020)
July 13-16, Neuchatel Switzerland (virtual meeting)

Website: https://isosonline.org/Social-Ontology-2020

* 2nd Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference (KGSWC 2020)
July 28-31, Merida, Mexico (exploring virtual conference options)

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

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* 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/

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

Deadline for submission:
*** Friday, May 22 (papers submission)
*** Monday, June 1 (doctoral consortium submission)
*** Friday, July 10 (reproducibility track submission)

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

* 22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2020)
September 16-20, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Deadline for submission:
*** Monday, May 25 (abstracts submission)
*** Monday, June 1 (papers submission)

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

* 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/

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

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, May 25 (short papers submission)
*** Monday, June 1 (workshop submission)

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

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

Deadline for submission:
*** Friday, June 5 (doctoral consortium 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 29 – September 2, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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

Website: http://ecai2020.eu/

* 6th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning (FCR 2020)
September 21-25, Bamberg, Germany (exploring virtual conference options)

Deadline for submissions:
*** Tuesday, June 30 (papers submission)

Website: https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/wbs/fcr2020

* Workshop on Scalable Knowledge Graph Engineering (SKALE 2020)
September 16, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy (exploring virtual conference options)

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, July 1 (abstracts submission)
*** Tuesday, July 7 (papers submission)

Website: https://skale-workshop.gitlab.io/

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

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, July 15 (late break reports submission)

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

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

next meeting: n.241, May 26, 14:00 UTC
default dates: bi-weekly, on Tuesdays, 13:30 UTC

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

* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG

next meeting: n.79, June 1, 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_20200504

Next SWAO Meeting Webpage:
https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/SWAO:Conference_Call_20200601

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ONTOLOGY SUMMIT
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* Ontology Summit 2020
May 20, 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_05_20

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RESULTS OF THE BALLOT ON THE 2019 FINANCIAL REPORT

Dear IAOA Members,

we are grateful to everyone who spent time on our Virtual Assembly and who expressed their votes concerning the 2019 Financial Report [5]. The ballot was closed with the end of May 6, 2020.
The 2019 Financial Report has been approved by all participants of the ballot. These results are listed below and on [1,2].
Many thanks to everyone actively engaged!

In case there remain any further questions, please feel free to contact us at [3] or send issues of general relevance to the members’ mailing list [4].

Additionally we thank Ken Baclawski for preparing the 2019 Financial Report, the Auditors for their work controlling the report and the books, and those who coordinated the ballot and set up the voting system.

Finally, thanks to you once more for your contributions.

Best wishes,

Laure Vieu
President, IAOA

== Voting results of the ballot in May 2020 ==

Ballot item: 2019 Financial Report [5]
Total number of members / entitled to vote:  60
No quorum required
Total number of votes:                       20
Participation rate:                          33.3 %
Ballot Results:
Yes:     20 (100%)
No:       0 ( 0.0%)
Abstain:  0 ( 0.%)

== References ==

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

[2] https://iaoa.org/members/users/iaoa-res2020.php

[3] info at iaoa.org

[4] iaoa-member at ovgu.de

[5] https://iaoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/iaoa-ch-financial-report-2019.pdf