September 2023 newsletter

Dear IAOA members,

Below you find the news and announcements of our September 2023 newsletter.
If you have information to share with the IAOA’s community, e.g., scientific events that you wish to advertise, please do not hesitate to contact us (calendars@iaoa.org).

Best,

The Executive Council of the IAOA

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EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* FOIS 2023 (online sessions)
18-20 September 2023

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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* Workshops of the 22nd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA)
November 6-9, 2023, Rome, Italy
Website: http://www.aixia2023.cnr.it/conference/workshops

**Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
*** September 25, 2023 (paper submission)

**1st Workshop on AI for Perception and Artificial Consciousness
***September 22, 2023 (paper submission)

**2nd Workshop on Bias, Ethical AI, Explainability and the Role of Logic and Logic Programming
***September 17, 2023 (paper submission)

**2nd AIxIA Workshop on Artificial Intelligence For Healthcare
***September 20, 2023 (paper submission)

**2nd Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage
***September 22, 2023 (paper submission)

**5th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and fOrmal VERification, Logic, Automata, and sYnthesis
***September 22, 2023 (paper submission)

* Track on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) part of the
39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing,
April 8 – April 12, 2024, Avila, Spain

Website: https://krarlab.dmi.unipg.it/KRR@SAC2024/

Deadlines:

*** September 29, 2023 (paper submission)

* 23rd Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2024)
6–10 May, 2024, Auckland, New Zealand

Website: https://www.aamas2024-conference.auckland.ac.nz/

Deadlines:
*** October 2, 2023 (abstract submission)
*** October 9, 2023 (paper submission)

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* 18th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2023)
20-22 September 2023, Dresden, Germany

Website: https://jelia2023.inf.tu-dresden.de

* 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2023)
20-22 September, 2023, Leipzig, Germany

Website: https://2023-eu.semantics.cc/

*19th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2023)
21-24 September 2023
Website: https://2023.declarativeai.net/events/reasoning-web

* 30th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2023)
25-26 September 2023, Demokritos, Athens, Greece

Website: https://cer.iit.demokritos.gr/events/time23/

*42nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2023)
06 – 09 November 2023, Lisbon, Portugal

Website: https://er2023.inesc-id.pt

* 22nd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2023)
6-9 November, 2023, Rome, Italy

Website: http://www.aixia2023.cnr.it/

*** Several workshops at AIxIA!

* 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023)
6-10 November, 2023, Athens, Greece

Website: https://iswc2023.semanticweb.org/

*** Several workshops at ISWC!

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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[1] calendar: “IAOA Check Events”
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[2] calendar: “IAOA Check Deadlines”
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[3] https://iaoa.org
[4] https://iaoa.org/index.php/calendar/events/
[5] info@iaoa.org
[6] iaoa-member@ovgu.de
[7] calendars@iaoa.org

9th ESAO Special Session@FOIS online 2023

September 2023 brings a special ESAO session at FOIS online 2023.

When and how to connect

Program

11:00-11:30 EDT / 15:00-15:30 UTC / 17:00-17:30 CEST / 17:00-17:30 SAST (30 min presentations + discussions)

Claudio Masolo (LOA, Italy), Laure Vieu (IRIT, France), Patrick Koopmann (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany)

The notion of property
Abstract: The aim is to discuss on the broad overview on property readings, definitions, and use under the perspectives of different domains (philosophy, linguistics, semantic web, etc).

More information at: https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO#9th_ESAO_Special_Session.40FOIS_online_2023_on_September_19th.2C_2023

IAOA ordinary assembly 2023 — now open

Dear IAOA members,

The IAOA ordinary assembly is now open, namely the voting period for the approval of the IAOA Financial Report 2022.

Information regarding this ordinary assembly is on the wiki page: https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/IAOA_Assembly_2023_09

The ballot is open from now, September 07, till September 15, 2023 (23:59, AoE = UTC-12).

To cast your vote, you have to:

* log in onto our website,  i.e. at https://iaoa.org/wp-login.php

(Note: if you cannot log in, you might have lost your password –see https://iaoa.org/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword, or you haven’t renewed your membership. Membership registration is blocked during the ballot period.)

* go to the 2022 Financial Report Approval page at https://iaoa.org/members/users/iaoa-vote2023.php

(voting page also accessible from the Utilities page in the Member Area)

* cast your vote by clicking your preference in the voting form and submitting it

Should you have any question, comment or motion proposal, feel free to send a message to info@iaoa.org, or to post a public message to this list.

Please don’t forget to cast your vote, even if you intend to abstain. Every vote is important!

The voting period closes on September 15, 2023 at 23:59, AoE (= UTC-12)

Voting results will be announced on the mailing list on September 18, 2023.

Should you have any doubt or problem, don’t hesitate to contact the IAOA Secretaries, Megan Katsumi and Frank Loebe at secretary@iaoa.org

Thanks for your participation