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ESAO Webinar n.10, December 2023
The Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1] is open for everyone and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike (no registration needed).
The 10th ESAO webinar will be held on
Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 15:00 CET (regional times: 09:00-10:30 EDT / 14:00-15:30 UTC / 15:00-16:30 CET / 16:00-17:30 SAST / 11:00-12:30 UTC-3 [2]) via Zoom (full connection details at the end of this message)
https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/95709820112?pwd=VXlYTi8zbzBDbjVkUW1Qa2dGMW4zUT09
Program & Speakers Info
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09:00-10:30 EDT / 14:00-15:30 UTC / 15:00-16:30 CET / 16:00-17:30 SAST / 11:00-12:30 UTC-3 (30 min each presentation + discussions)
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Mara Abel (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Title: Ontology application in the petroleum industry
Abstract: The petroleum production chain configures a complex sequence of activities that require specialized knowledge and large volume of information from diverse sources and types. Considering the high level of requested knowledge, several specialized providers assume part of the activities producing information and data that are integrated during process decision, production monitoring, and optimization. In this non-standardize scenario, semantic treatment becomes a key issue to allow interoperability between systems and enterprise information consumption. Ontology engineering came with the adequate tools for dealing with semantic in this environment nowadays, by orienting the development of domain ontologies and the embodiment of the ontology artifacts into information system applications. This talk will describe use cases of domain ontologies in petroleum industry environment for information retrieval, expert system applications, digital twin for implementation and decision making applications, highlighting details of the each project development.
Bio: Mara Abel is geologist and doctor in Computer Science, studying knowledge engineering applied to Petroleum Industry. She is a retired titular professor of UFRGS, in Brasil, where she has been dedicated to investigate and build ontologies for dealing with interoperability problems in petroleum industry. She is co-founder of the knowledge-based software company ENDEEPER and she has conceived several successful industrial applications for reservoir characterization and production optimization in industrial cooperation projects.
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Emilio Sanfilippo (National Research Council of Italy)
Title: Ontologies in Digital Humanities: Some Research Challenges
Abstract: Ontologies are extensively used in both research and applications within the realm of digital humanities, with one of the most notable examples being the CIDOC-CRM ontology and its extensions. Similarly to other domains of application, ontologies within the digital humanities serve diverse purposes, including the seamless organization of datasets across multiple organizations to enable their smooth sharing and integration. However, within this landscape, critical studies pertaining to the interpretive reception of artworks – or any entity central to humanities research – have remained at the margins of knowledge representation and data modeling efforts. Consequently, while numerous digital platforms offer ontology-based datasets, only a few explicitly address the interpretive dimension of scholarly inquiries. This absence is somewhat surprising considering the significance of interpretive phenomena in critical studies of fine art, literature, music, theater, and other disciplines. During this presentation, I will briefly explore the utilization of ontologies in the digital humanities, discussing the challenges researchers must confront, in my opinion, to comprehend the multifaceted nature of scholarly research in the humanities. These challenges encompass the development of methodologies and formal models to represent scholarly interpretations and debates.
Bio: Emilio Sanfilippo is a permanent researcher at the National Research Council of Italy, affiliated with the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) within the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC). His research encompasses foundational and applied topics concerning the utilization of ontologies in both industrial engineering and the digital humanities. Presently, he serves as the principal investigator of the MITE project – Make it Explicit: Documenting interpretations of literary fictions with conceptual formal models, funded by the Italian Ministry for University and Research (MUR).
Series Description
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The IAOA [3] has created ESAO [1], an educational effort directed towards topics of Applied Ontology, primarily established basics and foundations.
The series is inspired by the Interdisciplinary Schools on Applied Ontology (ISAO) [4]. ESAO is complementary in format and its overall approach. The goal is to provide a combination of an archive of educational material (e.g., short video lectures) and a series of webinars for presenting and discussing that material.
Organization
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Members of the Education Technical Committee of IAOA [5] and among those primarily (in alphabetical order):
* Lucía Gómez Álvarez
* Frank Loebe
* Sandra Lovrenčić
* Cassia Trojahn (Chair)
* Laure Vieu
Contact
E-Mail: info@iaoa.org
[1] Educational Series on Applied Ontology
https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO
[2] Session time locally and in further places
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20230510T1400
[3] IAOA website
http://iaoa.org/
[4] ISAO History page
https://iaoa.org/index.php/isao-history/
[5] Entry page of the IAOA Education Technical Committee
https://iaoa.org/index.php/faq/education-committee/
Connection Details
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Topic: ESAO 10th
Time: Dec 19, 2023 03:00 PM Paris
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November 2023 newsletter
Dear IAOA members,
Below you find the news and announcements of our November 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 2024 – 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
8-9 July 2024 (online) and 15-19 July 2024, Enschede, Netherlands
Website: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/
Several calls within FOIS:
*** 26 Februrary 2024 (paper submission)
*** 17 April 2024 (journal-first papers)
*** 14 December 2024 (workshop proposal submission at JOWO – Episode X: The Tukker Zomer of Ontology)
–> Other deadlines for events related to FOIS are approaching. Stay tuned to the website for updates!
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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* 12nd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCist’24)
26-28 March 2024, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Website: http://worldcist.org/index.php/call-for-papers
Submission deadline:
*** November 24(paper submission)
* 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’24)
3-7 June 2024, St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus
Website: https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/
Submission deadline:
*** November 24 (abstract submission)
*** December 1st (paper submission)
* 13th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2024)
8-11 April, Sheffield, UK
Website: https://foiks2024.github.io/
Submission deadline:
*** November 24 (abstract submission)
*** December 1st (paper submission)
* Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC24)
26-30 May 2024, Hersonissos, Greece
Website: https://2024.eswc-conferences.org
Submission deadline:
*** November 30, 2023 (abstract submission)
*** December 7, 2023 (paper submission)
* 21st International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2024)
10-12 June 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus
Website: https://cyprusconferences.org/icsr2024/
Submission deadline:
*** February 12, 2023 (abstract submission)
*** February 19, 2023 (paper submission)
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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* 2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2023)
5-8 December 2023, Istanbul, Turkey
Website: https://bidma.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/IEEE-BIBM-2023/
* 36th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2023)
18-20 December 2023, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Website: http://jurix.nl
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SPECIAL ISSUES
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* Special issue on Ontology Matching and Machine Learning, Semantic Web Journal
Website: https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-issue-ontology-matching-and-machine-learning
Submission deadline:
*** February 20, 2024
Papers submitted before the deadline will be reviewed upon receipt.
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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
FOIS 2024 – Call for Papers!
14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024)
The Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services group of the University of Twente is proud to host the 14th edition of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS), the flagship conference of the International Association of Ontology and its Applications (IAOA).
When: 08-09 July 2024 (online) and 15-19 July 2024
Where: Enschede, Netherlands)
For all information related to the conference, including satellite events (JOWO workshops included!), calls for papers, and workshops, please refer to the conference’s website: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/
October 2023 newsletter
Dear IAOA members,
Below you find the news and announcements of our October 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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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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*12nd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCist’24)
26-28 March 2024, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Website: http://worldcist.org/index.php/call-for-papers
Submission deadline:
*** November 17 (paper submission)
*36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’24)
3-7 June 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus
Website: https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/
Submission deadline:
***November 24 (abstract submission)
***December 1st (paper submission)
* Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC24)
26-30 May 2024, Hersonissos, Greece
Website: https://2024.eswc-conferences.org
Submission deadline:
*** November 30, 2023 (abstract submission)
*** December 7, 2023 (paper submission)
*21st International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2024)
10-12 June 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus
Website: https://cyprusconferences.org/icsr2024/
Submission deadline:
*** February 12, 2023 (abstract submission)
*** February 19, 2023 (paper submission)
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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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*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!
* 3rd International Joint Conference on Learning & Reasoning (IJCLR)
13-15 November 2023, Bari, Italy
Website: https://ijclr2023.di.uniba.it
* 2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM 2023)
5-8 December 2023, Istanbul, Turkey
*36th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2023)
18-20 December 2023, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Website: http://jurix.nl
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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[1] calendar: “IAOA Check Events”
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=iaoa.member@googlemail.com
[2] calendar: “IAOA Check Deadlines”
[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
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”
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=iaoa.member@googlemail.com
[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
- Tuesday September 19th, 2023 15:00 UTC / 17:00 CEST / 17:00 SAST (more local times)
- Duration: 60 minutes
- Video conference (via Zoom)
- URL: https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/93404374096?pwd=a0VqM3J6WkovWFNQaVdacjNwYmxRQT09
- Telephone: see local numbers at https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kd3SqdIOZl
- No registration required! In Zoom, we appreciate if you use your real name.
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
FOIS 2023 online
The online session of FOIS 2023 will take place from September 18th to September 20th, 2023.
Check out the program:
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
Financial Report 2022
Dear IAOA members,
Please be advised that the 2022 Financial Report and Auditors’ report are now available for your review on the IAOA website [1,2]. The discussion phase is ongoing, so please share any questions or comments to the mailing list [3]. The ballot, during which you are encouraged to vote on the financial report, will be held from Thursday, September 07 to Friday, September 15.
Thanks and kind regards,
Megan Katsumi
Secretary, IAOA
[1] Financial report: https://iaoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/annual-report-iaoa-ch-20230627_short.pdf
[2] Auditors’ report: https://iaoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/annual-report-iaoa-ch-20221007.pdf
[3] iaoa-member at ovgu.de
IAOA Ordinary Assembly 2023
Dear IAOA members,
soon a 2023 IAOA Ordinary Assembly [1] will be held online, the main purpose of which is to examine and approve the 2022 IAOA Financial Report (forthcoming).
–> The most important dates of the assembly are:
– Thu, Aug 24 – proposals of additional agenda items due
– Thu, Sept 07 – discussion phase ends
– Thu, Sept 07 – assembly called to order, ballot starts
– Fri, Sept 15 – ballot closes
– TBD within Mon-Wed, Sept 18-20 – public assembly session
(during the online part of FOIS 2023)
The assembly session will address general updates on IAOA, recent and upcoming major events as well as the results of the ballot. Please see the assembly page [1] with further details on the overall assembly. Note that the 2022 Financial Report and Auditors’ report are forthcoming by Aug 28, 2023.
–> All members are welcome to propose additional agenda items
until Thu, Aug 24, 2023.
We will be grateful for your participation in the ballot as well as for any prior input on the matter during the discussion phase (e.g., writing to [2]). Active involvement in IAOA is valuable to our whole community. Proposals for additional agenda items may be made by replying to this email, or sending a separate message to the mailing list [2].
Oliver Kutz
President, IAOA
PS: Trying soon to access the Utilities [3] page in the Members’ Area helps you to ensure access to the voting system during the ballot.
[1] https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/IAOA_Assembly_2023_09
[2] iaoa-member at ovgu.de
[3] https://iaoa.org/index.php/member-area/utilities/