Month: February 2022

February 2022 newsletter

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Dear IAOA members,

Herewith you receive the February 2022 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 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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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA

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* 8th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2022)
August 15-19, 2022, Jönköping University, Sweden

Website: https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2022/index.html

Deadline for submissions:
** February 15, 2022 (Workshop and Tutorial proposals)
** Further deadlines upcoming

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* 15th IADIS International Conference Information Systems 2022,
March 12-14, 2022, online

Website: https://www.is-conf.org/

* 18th Workshop on Context and Activity Modeling and Recognition (CoMoRea 2021)
Either March 21 or March 22, 2022, online

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/comorea22/

* 25th International Conference on Database Theory (CDT 2022)
March 29 – April 1, 2022, online

Website: https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages

* [ICEIS 2022] 24th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
April 25-27, 2022

Website: https://iceis.scitevents.org

* The Web Conference ACM (WebConf 2022)
April 25-29, 2022, online hosted by Lyon, France

Website: https://www2022.thewebconf.org/

* Knowledge Graphs track
@37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing
April 25-29, 2022, Brno, Czech Republic

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sac2022kg

* The Semantic Web and Applications track (SWA 2022)
@7th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC) 2022
April 25-29, 2022, Brno, Czech Republic

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sac2022-swa/home

* Beyond Facts 2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Analysis
@TheWebConf (WWW) 2022)
April 26, 2022

Website: https://knod22.wordpress.com/

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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* 23rd European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2022)
September 1-2, 2022, Naples, Italy

Website: https://academic-conferences.org/conferences/eckm/eckm-call-for-papers/

Submission deadline:
** March 31, 2022

* 1st Workshop on Modular Knowledge @ESWC 2022 (MK2022)
date to be announced (within May 29 – June 2)

Website: https://mk2022.fbk.eu/

Submission deadline:
*** February 21, 2022 (abstract submission)
*** February 28, 2022 (paper submission)

* International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation from Text (Text2KG)
May 29, 2022 @ESWC 2022

Website: https://aiisc.ai/text2kg/

Submission deadline:
*** February 28, 2022

* 30th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2022),
June 19-22, 2022, Tirrenia, Pisa, Italy

Website: https://sebd2022.isti.cnr.it/

Submission deadline:
*** March 3, 2022 (abstract submission)
*** March 11, 2022 (paper submission)

* The 33rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA2022)
August 22-24, 2022, Vienna, Austria

Website: http://www.dexa.org/dexa2022

Submission deadline:
*** March 7, 2022

* Ontology Uses and Contribution to Artificial Intelligence @PAKDD 2022
May 16-19, 2022, online or Chengdu, China

Website: http://www.pakdd.net/

Submission deadline:
*** March 11, 2022

* 27th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2022)
September 12-15, 2022

Website: https://iccs-conference.org/

Submission deadline:
*** March 11, 2022 (abstract submission)
*** March 18, 2022 (paper submission

* 26th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2023)

Submission deadline:
*** March 14, 2022 (abstract submission)
*** March 21, 2022 (paper submission)

* 20th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2022)
September 13-15, 2022, Münster, Germany

Website: https://bpm2022.uni-muenster.de/calls-and-dates/call-for-papers

Submission deadline:
*** March 16, 2022

* Deep Learning meets Ontologies and Natural Language Processing (DeepOntoNLP-2022)
@ESWC 2022, date to be announced (within May 29 – June 2)

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/deepontonlp2022/

Submission deadline:
*** March 18, 2022

* 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition
@SweCog 2022: the conference of the Swedish Cognitive Science Society

Website: https://aic20.aass.oru.se/

Submission deadline:
*** March 18, 2022

* 21st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2022)
October 23-27, 2022, Hangzhou, China

Website: https://iswc2022.semanticweb.org/

Submission deadline:
*** March 18, 2022 (workshop and tutorial proposals)
*** April 28, 2022 (abstracts due for research, in-use, resource tracks)
*** May 5, 2022 (full papers due for research, in-use, resource tracks)
*** May 13, 2022 (doctoral consortium submissions)

* 23rd European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2022)
September 1-2, 2022, Naples, Italy

Submission deadline:
*** March 31, 2022

* 26th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS)
September 5-8, 2022

Website: https://adbis2022.polito.it/calls/call-for-papers/

Submission deadline:
*** April 7, 2022

* 35th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL)
August 7-10, 2022

Website: https://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/dl2022/

Submission deadline:
*** April 23, 2022 (abstract submission)
*** April 30, 2022 (paper submission)

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SPECIAL ISSUES INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* Semantic Web Journal (SWJ), special issue on Semantic Web for Industrial Engineering: Research and Applications

CFP: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-papers-special-issue-semantic-web-industrial-engineering-research-and-applications

Deadline for submissions:
*** February 14, 2022 (extended)

* Semantic Web Journal (SWJ), special issue on The Role of Ontologies and Knowledge in Explainable AI

CFP: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/call-papers-special-issue-role-ontologies-and-knowledge-explainable-ai

Deadline for submissions:
*** February 15, 2022

* Information, special issue on Data and Metadata Management with Semantic Technologies

CFP: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information

Deadline for submissions:
** March 15, 2022

* Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), special issue on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage

CFP: https://dl.acm.org/journal/JOCCH/semanticwebch

Deadline for submission:
*** June 1, 2022

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ONTOLOGY SUMMIT 2022

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The Ontology Summit is an annual series of events that involves the ontology community and communities related to each year’s theme chosen for the summit. The Ontology Summit was started by Ontolog and NIST, and the program has been co-organized by Ontolog and NIST along with the co-sponsorship of other organizations that are supportive of the Summit goals and objectives.

2022 Topic – Pandemics and Other Disasters

Website: https://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2022

Upcoming agenda:

*** February 23, 2022 Matthew West ; Open Discussion
*** March 2, 2022 Asiyah Lin on Post-workshop Report of WCO-2020: Workshop on COVID-19 Ontologies
*** March 9, 2022 Michael DeBellis and Biswanath Dutta
*** March 16, 2022 John Beverley on The Subtle Art of Modeling Pandemics
*** March 23, 2022 Alpha Tom Kodamullil on COVID-19 Multilingual Ontologies
*** March 30, 2022 Pandemics Synthesis
*** April 6, 2022 Krzysztof Janowicz on Wildfires and KG issues (tentative)
*** April 13, 2022 Dave Jones on ESIP (tentative)
*** April 20, 2022 Karen Moe on Disaster observations from space (tentative)
*** April 27, 2022 Panel on Environment Disasters (tentative)
*** May 4, 2022 TBD
*** May 11, 2022 Robert Rovetto on Aerospace and Maritime Disasters
*** May 18, 2022 TBD
*** May 25, 2022 Rama Suresh on Situational Awareness Project (tentative)
*** June 1, 2022 TBD
*** June 8, 2022 Aerospace and Maritime Disasters Synthesis
*** June 15, 2022 Communique Preparation
*** June 22, 2022 Communique Preparation
*** June 29, 2022 Communique Preparation

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES

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* Executive Council (EC) Meeting

EC Webpage:

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

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Ontology Summit 2022 — Pandemics and Other Disasters

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Ontology Summit

The Ontology Summit is an annual series of events that involves the ontology community and communities related to each year’s theme chosen for the summit. The Ontology Summit was started by Ontolog and NIST, and the program has been co-organized by Ontolog and NIST along with the co-sponsorship of other organizations that are supportive of the Summit goals and objectives.

Ontology Summit 2022 Theme: Pandemics and Other Disasters
https://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2022

The COVID-19 pandemic as well as other pandemics and disasters have
prompted an impressive, worldwide response by governments, industry, and
the academic community. Ontologies can play a significant role in search,
data description, interoperability and harmonization of the increasingly
large data sources that are relevant to disasters such as the COVID-19
pandemic. This summit will examine the role that ontologies can play in
disasters. The first track will be an overview of the notion of disaster.
The other tracks will examine how the different kinds of disaster are
employing ontologies.

Schedule
(always at Noon US/Canada Eastern Time)

January 19, 2022 Overview of the Summit and Tracks
January 26, 2022 Josh Lieberman and Paul Churchyard: Overview of the OGC
Disaster Pilot
February 2, 2022 Doug Lenat Representation and Reasoning Lessons Learned
in Building Cyc
February 9, 2022 Chris Mungall and Justin Reese on COVID-19 Knowledge
Graphs
February 16, 2022 Doug Lenat Followup Session
February 23, 2022 Matthew West ; Open Discussion
March 2, 2022 Asiyah Lin on Post-workshop Report of WCO-2020: Workshop on
COVID-19 Ontologies
March 9, 2022 Michael DeBellis and Biswanath Dutta
March 16, 2022 John Beverley on The Subtle Art of Modeling Pandemics
March 23, 2022 Alpha Tom Kodamullil on COVID-19 Multilingual Ontologies
March 30, 2022 Pandemics Synthesis
April 6, 2022 Krzysztof Janowicz on Wildfires and KG issues (tentative)
April 13, 2022 Dave Jones on ESIP (tentative)
April 20, 2022 Karen Moe on Disaster observations from space (tentative)
April 27, 2022 Panel on Environment Disasters (tentative)
May 4, 2022 TBD
May 11, 2022 Robert Rovetto on Aerospace and Maritime Disasters
May 18, 2022 TBD
May 25, 2022 Rama Suresh on Situational Awareness Project (tentative)
June 1, 2022 TBD
June 8, 2022 Aerospace and Maritime Disasters Synthesis
June 15, 2022 Communique Preparation
June 22, 2022 Communique Preparation
June 29, 2022 Communique Preparation

JOWO 2022

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The Joint Ontology Workshops – JOWO 2022

Episode 8: The Svear Sommar of Ontology  

August 15-19, 2022, Jönköping, Sweden (On-site)

https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2022/index.html

— Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals —

* Submission is open until: February 15, 2022

* Notification: March 1, 2022

The organisation team invites proposals for workshops and tutorials to be submitted to the eighth edition of the Joint Ontology Workshop (JOWO 2022). The event will take place at Jönköping University in Sweden on August 15-19, 2022.

Workshops and tutorials at JOWO 2022 are events whose scientific program is independently established by the workshop organisers, but whose venue matters are managed by the organisation of the umbrella event. Organisers for each workshop are responsible to advertise the workshop, finding a program committee, and reviewing and selecting the contributions. Each workshop will be treated as an independent track at JOWO and will be provided with a submission track on JOWO‘s Easychair, a room at a shared venue with joint breaks, shared keynote speakers, and social programs. Attendees are free to partake in all workshops at JOWO and all accepted papers are to be published in the joint proceedings (open access CEUR proceedings in the IAOA series: http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html).

Proposals for workshops of interest are those that provide a forum for the discussion of theory, practice, development and/or application of topics broadly related to ontologies, formal ontology, and knowledge management and their application in information science or closely related areas. The strength of JOWO is the variety of different topics within the same domain. Therefore, JOWO workshops typically address a wide spectrum of topics related to ontology research and information science: ranging from Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Knowledge Representation and Logic, Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Hybrid AI, Conceptual Modelling and Semantic Web. In general, any particular domain in which ontologies may be put to use is welcome. As a workshop collective, JOWO is especially suitable for interdisciplinary and innovative formats.

Previous JOWO editions were held as independent events in 2019 in Graz (Austria), in 2017 in Bolzano (Italy), and in conjunction with FOIS 2018 in Cape Town (South Africa), with FOIS 2016 in Annecy (France), and at IJCAI 2015 in Buenos Aires (Argentina). During the pandemic times 2022-21, JOWO were held as components in BOSK 2021 and 2022 in Bolzano (Italy).This year’s venue is Jönköping University. The university offers modern facilities in a mid-sized town in the south of Sweden. Beautifully located between shimmering lakes and lush forests, Jönköping is a popular tourist destination for nature lovers, sports enthusiasts and those interested in nordic culture. JOWO will be organised as an on-site event, but individual workshops may choose to invite part of their workshop presenters in an online form, given that they manage the complexities of the hybrid format independently from the JOWO organisation.

 

— SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS —

Workshop proposals should be sent to:
steering.JOWO2022@gmail.com as soon as possible and no later than February 15, 2022. 

We encourage several forms and lengths of workshops (the list is non-exhaustive):

  • workshops that focus on an established research area, including continuations of workshops that were held in the past;
  • workshops that focus on emerging topics and applications, or on open research questions and challenges;
  • workshops that aim to create cross-disciplinary research fostering the exchange of ideas between groups otherwise mostly disconnected.

Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be no more than 2 pages in length, and must contain the following information:

  • title of the workshop/tutorial;
  • names of the workshop/tutorial organisers;
  • brief description of experience in workshop/tutorial organisation;
  • description of the workshop/tutorial topic;
  • brief description of the expected audience (please give an estimate of the expected number of participants and their background and interests);
  • intended duration of the workshop (between half a day and a full day);
  • timeline for the workshop (submission dates, notification dates). We recommend taking the proposed “important dates” below into account.

— EVALUATION —

Submissions of workshop proposals will be evaluated by the workshop chairs of JOWO 2022 using the following criteria:

  • Scientific relevance and utility to attendees;
  • Quality of the proposal;
  • Likelihood of success of the workshop;
  • Overlap and complementarity with other workshops.

— IMPORTANT DATES —

  • February 15, 2022 – Workshop proposal submission deadline
  • March 1, 2022 – Latest date for notification of workshop acceptance
  • March 16, 2022 – 1st call for papers to be distributed by individual workshop organisers
  • August 15-19, 2022 – JOWO conference dates

— FURTHER INQUIRIES —

In case of further questions please contact: steering.JOWO2022@gmail.com

— ORGANISATION —

Chairs and local organisation:
Maria M. Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden

Karl Hammar, Jönköping University, Sweden

Tan He, Jönköping University, Sweden

Proceedings chair:

Tiago Sales Prince, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Web chair: 

Selja Seppälä, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland