Month: December 2024

December 2024 newsletter

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Dear IAOA members,

Below you find the news and announcements of our December 2024 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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FOIS 2025 and JOWO Episode XI
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15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
(FOIS), and
Joint Ontology Workshops Episode XI (JOWO).

WHEN:
– 4-5 September 2025 (virtual conference)
– September 8-12, 2025 (onsite conference)

WHERE:
– University of Catania, Italy

Call for paper for the main track:
– Mandatory abstract submission: 23 March 2025 (strict)
– Paper submission: 30 March 2025 (strict)
– Rebuttal period: 9-14 May 2025
– Notifications: 19 May 2025
– Camera-ready papers: 30 June 2025
– Onsite conference: 8-12 September 2025

Call for workshops for JOWO:
– Workshop proposal submission deadline: 17 January 2025
– Workshop acceptance notification: 7 February 2025

Website: https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/

Stay tuned for updates!

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Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO)
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ISAO 2025 will take place the week after FOIS 2025.

WHEN:
– September 15-19, 2025.

WHERE:
– University of Catania, Italy

More information soon available on: https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* Cape-KR 2025:
February 10-14, 2025, CapeTown, South Africa

Website: https://cape-kr.org

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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* ESWC 2025:The Extended Semantic Web Conference
June 1-5, 2025, Portoroz, Slovenia

Website: https://2025.eswc-conferences.org/

Deadlines for Research, Resources and In-Use Tracks
** Abstract submission (mandatory): December 12, 2024
** Paper submission (Hard): December 19, 2024

For more information about tracks at ESWC, visit the conference’s website.

*FLAIR 2025: The 38th International FLAIRS Conference
May 20-23, 2025, Daytona Beach, Florida

Website: https://www.flairs-38.info/important-dates

Deadline:
** Abstract submission: January 20, 2025
** Paper submission: January 27, 2025

* ICCBR 2025: 33rd International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning
IUT / UPPA Anglet, Biarritz, France, June 30-July 3, 2025

Deadline:
** Early Paper Submission Deadline: February 26, 2025
** Early Paper Notification: March 9, 2025
** Final Submission Deadline: March 16, 2025

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SPECIAL ISSUES
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* Special Issue Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, and
Knowledge Graphs in the Semantic Web Journal

Website:
https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-issue-large-language-models-generative-ai-and-knowledge-graphs

Submission deadline:
** March 31, 2025

* Special Issue on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural
Heritage in the Semantic Web Journal

Website:
https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-issue-semantic-web-and-ontology-design-cultural-heritage

Submission deadline:
** April 30, 2025

* Special Issue on Top-Level and Middle-Level Ontologies
Advances in Knowledge Representation

Website of the journal:
https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/fronteiras-rc/about

Submission deadline:
** June 1, 2025

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JOWO 2025 Call for Workshops

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JOWO 2025 Episode XI: The Sicilian Summer under the Etna
08-09 September 2025 (Catania, Italy) – co-located with FOIS 2025
The chairs for JOWO 2025 invite proposals for workshops to be held on-site in conjunction with FOIS 2025 which will take place September 8-12, 2025 in Catania, Italy.
The mission of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) is to facilitate collaboration among diverse communities interested in building, reasoning with, and applying formal ontologies in information sciences, artificial intelligence theory and applications, philosophy and cognitive science, and beyond.
As in earlier years, all contributions to accepted workshops will be published open access in a joint CEUR proceedings volume (unless opting out), within the IAOA series at CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html). This series is indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP.
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Call for workshop proposals
Workshop proposal submission deadline: 17 January 2025
Website: https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/?page_id=422
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Important dates
  • Workshop proposal submission deadline: 17 January 2025
  • Workshop acceptance notification: 7 February 2025
  • Workshop call for papers announcement and publicity: 28 February 2025
  • Workshop paper submission deadline: 1 June 2025
  • Workshop paper author notification: 14 July 2025
  • Camera-ready submission: 1 September 2025
  • Workshop days: between 8-9 September 2025 (co-located with FOIS 2025)
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
  • Workshops that promote hands-on activities related to ontologies and their applications
JOWO Series: https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/
 
JOWO 2025 Organization
JOWO Chair
John Beverley, SUNY buffalo, United States of America
Patrick Lambrix, Linköping University, Sweden
 
Proceedings chair
Sanju Tiwari, Sharda University, Greater Noida, UP, India

ESAO seminars

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Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) — upcoming seminars:
(for all information relative to ESAO, click on the link above)

* December 17th, 2024

Speakers:

** Chris Partridge, BORO Solutions Limited and University of Westminster, UK

Title of the talk: Extending the design space of ontologization practices: Using bCLEARer as an example

Abstract: The aim of this seminar is to suggest that the design space for the ontologization process is richer than current practice would suggest. That it is possible to open the space up to a range of radically new practices. This consciously builds upon the notion that engineering processes as well as products need to be designed. We provide evidence for the new practices from our work over the last three decades with an outlier methodology, bCLEARer. We also provide some contextual scaffolding for a perspective that we have found we needed to better understand the nature of these new practices. This is an evolutionary perspective which sees digitalization (the evolutionary emergence of computing technologies) as part of the latest step in a long evolutionary trail of information transitions. And sees ontologization as a tool for exploiting the emerging opportunities offered by digitalization.

 

** Maria Keet, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Title of the talk: Competency questions.

Abstract: Competency Questions (CQs) for ontologies were initially proposed as a way to assist with scoping of an ontology’s content requirements for ontology development, but gradually have been taking up more diverse uses, including ontology validation and reuse, and as part of test-driven development of ontologies. Since authoring CQs is perceived as an arduous and error-prone task, research efforts have gone into automated writing assistance, the notion of what good and bad CQs are, and their formalisation into OWL and SPARQL queries. This ESAO webinar will cover CQ foundations and recent advances in research on CQs for ontologies.

 

When:

Tuesday December 17th, 2024 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CET / 16:00 SAST (more local times)
Duration: 90 minutes
Video conference (via Zoom): https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/92895546685?pwd=DQD7Wzf3ZJw02LJ2hHmrVDwdN474PZ.1