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Website Relaunch, News of 2018 and Review of 2017

September 7, 2018 Leave a comment

Welcome to the IAOA website, relaunched in early September 2018. Besides our hope that the relaunch is beneficial for all users of the site, another major good news for everyone interested in being or becoming a member of IAOA is that we are gradually reopening membership renewal during September and October … eventually! More details on the reopening can be found at the page Join IAOA.

The relaunch is further a good opportunity to highlight the major 2018 events organized by IAOA as well as to reflect on IAOA’s activities in the previous year. Indeed, IAOA’s two major 2018 events are most topical during September 2018.

The Tenth International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, FOIS 2018, will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, on September 17-21, 2018. Oliver Kutz (General Chair) together with Stefano Borgo and Pascal Hitzler (Programme Chairs), as well as Maria Keet (Local Chair), are crafting an amazing conference that will showcase the latest research in applied ontology. In addition to the main track, FOIS hosts five workshops and two tutorials as the Joint Ontology Workshops, JOWO 2018, as well as an Early Career Symposium. It further includes an Assembly of the membership, accessible locally and virtually and open to everyone interested. For up-to-date information, please visit the FOIS 2018 website.

Moreover, the Fourth Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology, ISAO 2018, will be co-located with FOIS in Cape Town and precedes the conference between September 10-15, 2018. Aldo Gangemi (General Chair) and Antony Galton (Programme Chair) as well as Maria Keet (Local Chair) have worked together to organize an educational event of high quality. Peter Simons, Stefano Borgo, and Stefan Schulz are among the instructors who will facilitate a full immersion experience in ontology, as one can see from the programme of the school.

Between January and April 2018 IAOA was again a co-organizer of the Ontology Summit, as in previous years. For 2018 the theme “Contexts in Context” was selected, covering such topics as Upper Ontologies for Specifying Context, Contexts in the Open Knowledge Network, and Contexts for Integration and Interoperability. The 2018 Ontology Summit Communique has recently been published in Applied Ontology.

Likewise and thereby turning to the beginning of 2017, IAOA was one of the co-organizers of the Ontology Summit 2017, which addressed the theme “AI, Learning, Reasoning, and Ontologies”. It explored the various connections between these areas, with conclusions presented in the 2017 Communique.

The Fourth IAOA Summer Institute was held during August 8-11, 2017 at the University of Toronto, Canada. The topic of the Summer Institute was “Upper Ontologies”, with Stefano Borgo, Michael Gruninger, Nicola Guarino, and Barry Smith as facilitators. Over thirty-two participants brainstormed and debated issues arising from the conceptual underpinnings and application of upper ontologies.

The Joint Ontology Workshops (Episode III: The Tyrolean Autumn), JOWO 2017, took place at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy between September 21-23, 2017. An impressive number of ten co-located workshops explored a diverse range of topics related to applied ontology in varied ways:

CREOL: Contextual Representation of Objects and Events in Language
DAO: Data meets Applied Ontologies
DEW: Ontology Debugging & Evaluation
EPINON: Epistemology in Ontologies
FOMI: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry
FOUST II: 2nd Workshop on Foundational Ontology
ISD3: The 3rd Image Schema Day
ODLS: 8th Workshop on Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences
SHAPES 4.0: The Shape of Things
WINKS: Workshop on Interaction-Based Knowledge Sharing

The post-proceedings of JOWO 2017 include 69 contributions and were published in January 2018 as volume 2050 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Special thanks to the JOWO 2017 chairs — Stefano Borgo, Oliver Kutz, Frank Loebe, and Fabian Neuhaus — for planning and executing amazing and memorable three days!

All efforts are made to allow for a similar success of our flagship events in September 2018. Moreover, there is an active agenda for the remainder of the year in administrative terms, among other items including the further settling of IAOA in its still new location Switzerland, rounding off website refurbishment and not at least running another, virtual Assembly for electing members for the Executive Council in November.

We look forward to the continuing support of our longstanding as well as novel members in all endeavours of IAOA. Moreover, we invite everyone interested to participate in ISAO, FOIS or any future events of the Association – it would be a great pleasure to meet you there!

Michael Gruninger and Oliver Kutz
for the IAOA Executive Council

August 2018 Newsletter

August 8, 2018 Leave a comment

Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the August 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.

Should you have any further suggestions, comments or questions on this service, please let us know by writing to the Association [3] or publicly to the membership [4].

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] info@iaoa.org

[4] iaoa-member@ovgu.de

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APPROACHING EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* ISAO 2018 4th Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology
September 10-15, Cape Town, South Africa

Website: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/

* FOIS 2018 10th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
September 17-21, Cape Town, South Africa

Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/

* JOWO 2018 @ FOIS 2018 3rd Joint Ontology WOrkshops
September 17-18, Cape Town, South Africa

Website: https://www.iaoa.org/jowo2018/

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* ESSLLI 2018 30th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
August 6-17, Sofia (Bulgaria)

Website: http://esslli2018.folli.info/

* CARLA 2018 Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning and Application
August 11-12, Osnabrueck, Germany

Website: https://www.conceptuccino.uniosnabrueck.de/carla_workshop/carla_2018.html

* Social Ontology 2018 The 11th Biennial Collective Intentionality Conference
August 22-25, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Website: https://isosonline.org/Social-Ontology-2018

* NeSy 2018 13th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning
August 23-24, Prague, Czech Republic

Website: http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy18/

* SEMANTiCS 2018 The Linked Data Conference: 14th International Conference on Semantic Systems
September 10-13, University of Vienna, Austria

Website: http://2018.semantics.cc

* CiNaPS 2018 Causality in the Neuro- and Psychological Sciences
September 19-21, Antwerp, Belgium

Website: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/cinaps-2018/

* FORMALS 2018 Formal Reasoning and Semantics
September 24-28, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Website: http://formals.ufzg.hr/

* WOSRA@IROS Working towards Ontology-based Standards for Robotics and Automation
October 5, Madrid, Spain

Website: http://www.aslab.upm.es/events/WOSRA/

* SIS-IoT 2018 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Interoperability and Standardization in the IoT
October 15, Santa Barbara, California, USA

Website: https://iot2018wt.github.io/sis-iot/

* RO Relation Ontology
October, 24-25, Aurora, Colorado, USA

Website: http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Relation_Ontology_2018

* DL 31st International Workshop on Description Logics
October 27-29, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Website: http://dl.kr.org/dl2018/

* WOMoCoE 2018 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution (Workshop 6 at KR 2018)
October 29, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Website: http://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/womocoe2018/

* KR 2018 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
** workshops and tutorials: October 27-29, Tempe, Arizona, USA
** main conference: October 30 – November 2, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Website: http://reasoning.eas.asu.edu/kr2018/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* SIS-IoT 2018 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Interoperability and Standardization in the IoT
October 15, Santa Barbara, California, USA

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, August 15 (paper submission deadline)

Website: https://iot2018wt.github.io/sis-iot/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS
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* Microbiology-related Ontology Studies
Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Deadline for submissions:
*** Saturday, September 15

Website: https://jbiomedsem.biomedcentral.com/microbiology-related-ontology-studies

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

next meeting: n.200, August 20, 14:30 UTC
default dates: bi-weekly, on Mondays, 14:30 UTC

EC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaorga/council/council.html

* SWAO SIG Meetings Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG

next meeting: n.58, September 10, 18:30 UTC
default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 18:30 UTC

Mailing list archive: https://listserv.ovgu.de/pipermail/iaoa-swao/

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:
http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_57

* EduTC Meetings Technical Committee on Education

next meeting: n.31, September 4, 15:00 UTC
default dates: 1st Tuesday of each month, 15:00 UTC

EduTC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaTC/TCeducation/TCeducation.php
EduTC Wiki: http://iaoaedu.cs.uct.ac.za/

* Ontology Summit 2018
Symposium held on April 30 and May 1, 2018
website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2018
Symposium website: http://bit.ly/2Fy60JR
Final version of the Communique: http://bit.ly/2NDQwIG

* Ontology Summit 2019: Planning Session
September 26, virtual meeting
(the Ontology Summit is organized and run by the Ontolog Community)

Websites:
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2019
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2018_09_26

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STATUS OF FUTURE EVENTS INVOLVING IAOA
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* FOIS 2018 Formal Ontology in Information Systems and
ISAO 2018 Interdisciplinary School on Ontological Analysis

FOIS 2018 website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za
ISAO 2018 website: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za
Location: Cape Town, South Africa (both events)

Event dates:
** ISAO: September 10-15 interdisciplinary school
** FOIS: September 17-18 Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO)
September 19-21 main conference

== FOIS Keynote Speakers ==

* Alessandro Oltramari
(Bosch Research and Technology Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
“Ontologies for artificial minds”

* Riichiro Mizoguchi
(Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Japan)
“State-centric methodology of ontology engineering”

* Peter Simons
(Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and University of Salzburg, Austria)
“Representing representing: The ontology of aboutness”

== Accepted Papers ==

* 14 full papers
* 5 short papers

see http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=46

== FOIS Satellite Activities ==

Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=54

* Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) 2018
** 7 workshops
** 2 tutorials
* early career symposium
* demo and industry track
* ontology competition

FOIS is preceded by the 4th Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO 2018): http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/

== ISAO Lecturers ==

* Arina Britz (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Foundations of Description Logics

* Maureen Donnelly (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Mereology, Location and Time

* Maria Keet (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Semantics and Conceptual Modelling

* Stefan Schulz (Medical University of Graz, Austria)
Biomedical Ontology

== ISAO Guest Lecturer ==

* Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and University of Salzburg, Austria)
Applied Mereology

* Stefano Borgo (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Trento, Italy)
Ontology and Robotics

The ISAO programme is available at: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/courses.html
Please notice: reduced registration fees available for attendants coming from Africa

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June 2018 Newsletter

June 22, 2018 Leave a comment

Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the June 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.

Should you have any further suggestions, comments or questions on this service, please let us know by writing to the Association [3] or publicly to the membership [4].

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] info@iaoa.org

[4] iaoa-member@ovgu.de

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
==================================

* NASSLLI 2018 North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
June 23-29, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, US

Website: https://www.cmu.edu/nasslli2018/

* WIMS 2018 The 8th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
June 25-27, Novi Sad, Serbia

Website: https://wims2018.pmf.uns.ac.rs/

* IJCAI-ECAI 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
July 13-19, Stockholm, Sweden

Website: https://www.ijcai-18.org/

* ESSLLI 2018 30th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
August 6-17, Sofia, Bulgaria

Website: http://esslli2018.folli.info/

* ICBO 2018 – International Conference on Biomedical Ontology
August 7-10, Corvallis, Oregon, US

Website: http://icbo2018.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/

* CARLA 2018 Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application
August 11-12, Osnabrueck, Germany

Website: https://www.conceptuccino.uni-osnabrueck.de/carla_workshop/carla_2018.html

* NeSy 2018 13th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning
August 23-24, Prague, Czech Republic

Website: http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy18/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* Industry and Demonstrations Track @FOIS 2018
September 17-21, Cape Town, South Africa

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, June 25 (paper and demonstration description submission)

Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=359

* JOWO 2018 – Joint Ontology Workshops @FOIS 2018
September 17-18, Cape Town, South Africa

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, June 25 (paper submission)

applicable to these workshops:

** BOG@JOWO Workshop on Bad Ontology
Website: http://bog.inf.unibz.it/

** CAOS-CEX@JOWO Workshop on Cognition And OntologieS + Explainable AI
Website: http://caos.inf.unibz.it/

** DAO-SI@JOWO Workshop on Data meets Applied Ontologies in Open Science and Innovation
Website: https://www.inf.unibz.it/smart/index.php/2018/03/27/daosi2018/

** EPINON II 2nd International Workshop on Epistemology in Ontologies
Website: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/epinon2018/home.html

** KODeP@JOWO Workshop on Ontology for Heterogeneous Knowledge in Design and Planning
Website: https://kodepjowo.wordpress.com/

** Onto.Com – 6th International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modelling
Website: http://www.mis.ugent.be/ontocom2018/

* Ontology Competition @FOIS 2018
September 17-21, Cape Town, South Africa

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, June 29 (ontology submission)

Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=280

* Early Career Symposium @FOIS 2018
September 17-21, Cape Town, South Africa

Deadline for submissions:
*** Saturday, June 30 (summary of research submission)

Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=236

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF SPECIAL ISSUES ON APPLIED ONTOLOGY
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* Meaning in Context

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, July 23

Website: https://submissions.iospress.com/applied-ontology/CIM

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* SEMANTiCS 2018 The Linked Data Conference: 14th International Conference on Semantic Systems
September 10-13, University of Vienna, Austria

Deadline for submissions:
*** Sunday, July 1 (tutorial submission)

Website: http://2018.semantics.cc

* EKAW 2018 – 21st International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
November 12-16, Nancy, France

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, July 2 (abstract submission)
*** Monday, July 9 (paper submission)

Website: https://project.inria.fr/ekaw2018/

* DL 31st International Workshop on Description Logics
October 26-29, Tempe, Arizona, US

Deadline for submissions:
*** Saturday, July 14 (paper registration)
*** Saturday, July 21 (paper submission)

Website: http://dl.kr.org/dl2018/

* NeSy 2018 13th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning
August, 23-24, Prague, Czech Republic

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, August 1 (late breaking paper submission)

Website: http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy18/

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES
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* Executive Council Meetings

next: n.196, June 25, 2018, 14:30 UTC
default dates: bi-weekly, Mondays, 14:30 UTC

EC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaorga/council/council.html

* SWAO SIG Meetings Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG

next: n.56, July 2, 2018, 18:30 UTC
default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 18:30 UTC

Mailing list archive: https://listserv.ovgu.de/pipermail/iaoa-swao/

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:
http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_55

* EduTC Meetings Technical Committee on Education

next: TBD (please check mailing list)
default dates: 1st Tuesday of each month, 15:00 UTC

EduTC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaTC/TCeducation/TCeducation.php

Mailing list archive: https://listserv.ovgu.de//pipermail/iaoa-education/

* Ontology Summit 2018:

Communiqu is now complete. It is available at http://bit.ly/2JvrxIi

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STATUS OF FUTURE EVENTS INVOLVING IAOA
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* FOIS 2018 Formal Ontology in Information Systems and
ISAO 2018 Interdisciplinary School on Ontological Analysis
Location: Cape Town, South Africa

FOIS 2018 website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za
ISAO 2018 website: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za

Event dates:
** ISAO: September 10-15 interdisciplinary school
** FOIS: September 17-18 workshops
September 19-21 main conference

Important dates for FOIS and ISAO:
** Sunday, July 15 – early registration deadline

=== FOIS Keynote Speakers ===

+ Arianna Betti (University of Amsterdam)
+ Alessandro Oltramari (Bosch Research and Technology Center, Pittsburgh)
+ Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin and University of Salzburg)

=== FOIS Satellite Activities ===

website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=54

+ 7 workshops (JOWO 2018)
+ 2 tutorials
+ an Early Career Symposium (ECS)
+ a demo and industry track
+ an ontology competition

FOIS is preceded by the 4th Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO).

=== ISAO Lecturers ===

* Arina Britz (Stellenbosch University)
Foundations of Description Logics

* Maureen Donnelly (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Mereology, Location and Time

* Maria Keet (University of Cape Town)
Semantics and Conceptual Modelling

* Stefan Schulz (Medical University of Graz)
Biomedical Ontology

== ISAO Guest lecturer ==

* Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin)

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REVIEWS AND RESULTS OF PAST EVENTS
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* Ontology Summit 2018
composed of weekly sessions between January and April 2018
Symposium held on April 30 and May 1, 2018

website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2018

Symposium website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/Ontology_Summit_2018_Symposium

Communique of Ontology Summit 2018: http://bit.ly/2JvrxIi

April 2018 Newsletter

April 13, 2018 Leave a comment

Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the April 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.

Should you have any further suggestions, comments or questions on this

service, please let us know by writing to the Association [3] or

publicly to the membership [4].

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] info@iaoa.org

[4] iaoa-member@ovgu.de

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UPCOMING EVENTS SPONSORED/SUPPORTED BY IAOA

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*Ontology Summit 2018: Symposium

April 30-May 1, NITRD, Washington DC (USA)

Website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/Ontology_Summit_2018_Symposium

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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*UKON 2018 UK Ontology Network

April 30, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

Website: http://ukontology.org/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA

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*FOIS 2018 10th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems

September 17-21, Cape Town (South Africa)

Deadline for submissions: ***EXTENDED***

***Friday, April 13 (abstract submission)

***Wednesday 25 (paper submission)

Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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*SEMANTiCS 2018 The Linked Data Conference 14th International Conference on Semantic Systems

September 10-13, University of Vienna, Austria

Deadline for submissions:

*** Sunday, April 15 (abstract submission Research & Innovation track)

*** Sunday, April 22 (paper submission Research & Innovation track)

*** Sunday, May 6 (abstract submission Industry & Use Case track)

*** Monday, May 28 (paper submission Industry & Use Case track)

*** Monday, June 11 (paper submission Posters & Demo track)

*** Sunday, July 1 (tutorial submission)

Website: http://2018.semantics.cc

*ICBO 2018 International Conference on Biomedical Ontology

August 7-10, Corvallis, Oregon, US

Deadline for submissions:

***Wednesday, April 25 (paper, software demo, early career and workshop paper submission)

***Tuesday, May 15 (poster abstract submission)

Website: http://icbo2018.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/

* AI*QA 2018 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Question Answering, Budapest, Hungary

Deadline for submissions:

***Friday, May 4 (paper submission)

Website: http://aiqa2018.icar.cnr.it/

*KR 2018 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

October 30-November 2, Tempe, Arizona, US

Deadline for submission:

***Sunday, May 13 (abstract submission)

***Sunday, May 20 (paper submission)

*CiNaPS 2018 Causality in the Neuro- and Psychological Sciences

September 19-21, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Deadline for submissions:

***Tuesday, May 15 (abstract submission)

Website: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/cinaps-2018/

*AI*IA 2018 17th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence

November 20-23, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy

Deadline for submissions:

***Monday, May 28 (abstract submission)

***Monday, June 4 (paper submission)

Website: http://aixia2018.fbk.eu

*FOMI@Manufacturing 2018 Formal Ontology Meets Industry

co-located with CARV (October 8-10), date of the workshop TBA, Nantes, France

Deadline for submissions:

***Wednesday, May 30 (paper submission)

Website: https://carv2018.ec-nantes.fr/fomi-workshop

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES

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* EduTC Meetings Technical Committee on Education

next: n.29, May 8, 2018, 15:00 UTC

default dates: 1^st Tuesday of each month, 15:00 UTC

EduTC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaTC/TCeducation/TCeducation.php

* Executive Council Meeting

next: n.192, April 23, 2018, 14:30 UTC

default dates: bi-weekly, Mondays, 14:30 UTC

EC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaorga/council/council.html

* SWAO SIG Meetings Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG

next: n.54, May 7, 2018, 18:30 UTC

default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 18:30 UTC

Mailing list archive: https://listserv.ovgu.de/pipermail/iaoa-swao/

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:

http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_53

* Ontology Summit 2018

next: April 18, 2018, 17:00 18:30 UTC

default dates: Wednesdays, 17:00 18:30 UTC

website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2018

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STATUS OF FUTURE EVENTS INVOLVING IAOA

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* FOIS 2018 Formal Ontology in Information Systems and

ISAO 2018 Interdisciplinary School on Ontological Analysis

FOIS 2018 website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Event dates:

** ISAO: September 10-14 interdisciplinary school

** FOIS: September 17-18 workshops

September 19-21 main conference

Important dates for FOIS:

** Friday, April 13 (abstract submission)

** Wednesday, April 25 (paper submission)

** Wednesday, May 30 (paper notification)

** Sunday, June 24 (camera-ready)

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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+ Arianna Betti (University of Amsterdam)

+ Alessandro Oltramari (Bosch Research and Technology Center, Pittsburgh)

+ Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin and University of Salzburg)

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SATELLITE ACTIVITIES

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http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=54

+ 7 workshops (JOWO 2018)

+ 2 tutorials

+ a young researchers symposium,

+ a demo and industry track

+ an ontology competition

FOIS is preceded by the 4th Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/

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March 2018 Newsletter

March 5, 2018 Leave a comment

Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the March 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.

Should you have any further suggestions, comments or questions on this
service, please let us know by writing to the Association [3] or
publicly to the membership [4].

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] info@iaoa.org

[4] iaoa-member@ovgu.de

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UPCOMING EVENTS SPONSORED/SUPPORTED BY IAOA
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* Ontology Summit 2018: Weekly virtual sessions
January-April, default dates: each Wednesday, 90 min session
at 9:00 PST / 12:00 EST / 17:00 GMT|UTC / 18:00 CET
March sessions:
*** Mar 07: Harmonizing diverse conceptualizations in
multi-context systems engineering
*** Mar 14: Upper ontologies for specifying context
*** Mar 21: Contexts for Integration and Interoperability
*** Mar 28: Contexts in the Open Knowledge Network
Website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2018

* Ontology Summit 2018: Symposium
April 30-May 1, NITRD, Washington DC (USA)
Website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/Ontology_Summit_2018_Symposium

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* UKON 2018 – UK Ontology Network
April 30, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK
Website: http://ukontology.org/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* FOIS 2018 10th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
September 17-21, Cape Town, South Africa

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, April 13 (paper submission)
Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* ICBO 2018 – International Conference on Biological Ontology
August 7-10, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, March 9 (workshops and tutorials proposals submission)
*** Wednesday, April 25 (paper, software demo, early career and workshop paper submission)
*** Tuesday, May 15 (poster abstract submission)
Website: http://icbo2018.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/

* ISWC 2018 – International Semantic Web Conference
October 8-12, Monterey, California, USA

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, March 30 (abstract submission)
*** Friday, April 6 (paper submission)
Website: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/

* ISWS 2018 – International Semantic Web Research Summer School
July 1-7, Bertinoro, Italy

Deadline for applications:
*** Saturday, March 31
Website: http://isws2018.semanticwebschool.org/

* SEMANTiCS 2018 – International Conference on Semantic Systems
September 10-13, Vienna, Austria

Deadline for submissions:
*** Sunday, April 1 (workshop proposals submission)
*** Sunday, April 15 (abstract submission (research tracks))
*** Sunday, April 22 (paper submission (research tracks))
Website: https://2018.semantics.cc/

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES
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* Executive Council Meeting
next: n.189, March 5, 2018, 14:30 UTC
default dates: bi-weekly, Mondays, 14:30 UTC
EC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaorga/council/council.html

* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG
next: n.52, March 5, 2018, 18:30 UTC
default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 18:30 UTC
Mailing list archive: https://listserv.ovgu.de/pipermail/iaoa-swao/

SWAO SIG Meeting Webpages:
next: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_52
last: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_51

* EduTC Meetings – Technical Committee on Education
next: n.27, March 6, 2018, 15:00 UTC
default dates: 1st Tuesday of each month, 15:00 UTC
EduTC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaTC/TCeducation/TCeducation.php

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STATUS OF FUTURE EVENTS INVOLVING IAOA
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* FOIS 2018 – Formal Ontology in Information Systems and
ISAO 2018 – Interdisciplinary School on Ontological Analysis

FOIS 2018 website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Event dates:
** ISAO: September 10-14 interdisciplinary school
** FOIS: September 17-18 workshops
September 19-21 main conference

Important dates for FOIS:
** Friday, March 2 (workshop/tutorial proposal)
** Thursday, March 15 (workshop/tutorial notification)
** Friday, April 13 (paper submission)
** Wednesday, May 30 (paper notification)
** Sunday, June 24 (camera-ready)

Status:
** FOIS Roles filled:
PC Co-chair: Stefano Borgo ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy
PC Co-chair: Pascal Hitzler Wright State Univ., Dayton, Ohio, USA
Publicity chair: Karl Hammar Jnkping Univ., Sweden
Early Career Symposium Chairs:
Emilio Sanfilippo CNRS, Nantes, France
Maria Hedblom Otto-von-Guericke Univ., Magdeburg, Germany
Zubeida Khan Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa
Local Chair: Maria Keet Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa
General Chair: Oliver Kutz Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

February 2018 Newsletter

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