APRIL 2020 – NEWSLETTER

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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. 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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BOLZANO SUMMER OF KNOWLEDGE
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FOIS 2020 will be part of a great wider event, the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge, which is supposed to happen in September 2020; JOWO and ISAO will also be part of it.However, given the coronavirus crisis, the situation is at the moment unclear, though several conferences including EKAW 2020, ICBO 2020, and FOIS 2020 have already confirmed that papers accepted to these conferences will be published in the respective proceedings sticking to the original timeframe.

Please check the webpages for updates:

*** BoSK 2020: https://summerofknowledge.inf.unibz.it
*** FOIS 2020: https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it
*** JOWO 2020: https://iaoa.org/jowo/
*** ISAO 2020: https://isao2020.inf.unibz.it
*** EKAW 2020: https://ekaw2020.inf.unibz.it/
*** ICBO 2020: https://icbo2020.inf.unibz.it/

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* 5th Workshop on Formal Reasoning about Causation, Responsibility, & Explanations in Science & Technology (CREST 2020)
April 25, Dublin, Ireland

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/crest2020

* 6th International Workshop on Computational Terminology (COMPUTERM 2020)
May 16, Marseille, France

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/computerm2020

* 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2020)
May 31 – June 4, Heraklion, Greece (virtual meeting)

Website: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/

* 4th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2020)
June 4-5, New York, NY, USA

Website: https://waset.org/social-robotics-conference-in-june-2020-in-new-york

* 32nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAISE 2020)
June 8-12, Grenoble, France (virtual meeting)

Website: http://caise20.imag.fr/

* 2nd International Workshop on Semantics and the Web ForTransport (Sem4Tra 2020)
June 9-12, Helsinki, Finland (exploring virtual conference options)

Website: https://sem4tra.linkeddata.es/

* Fair Heritage: Digital Methods, Scholarly Editing and Tools for Cultural and Natural Heritage (FAIR 2020)
June 17-18, Tours, France (virtual meeting)

Website: http://www.lestudium-ias.com/event/fair-heritage-digital-methods-scholarly-editing-and-tools-cultural-and-natural-heritage

* 8th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop (LDAC 2020)
June 17-19, Dublin, Ireland (virtual meeting)

Website: http://linkedbuildingdata.net/ldac2020/

* Journées francophones d’Ingénierie des Connaissances @ Plate-Forme Intelligence Artificielle (IC@PFIA 2020)
June 29- July 3, Angers, France

Website: http://pfia2020.fr/ic-2020/

* 10th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS 2020)
June 30 – July 3, Biarritz, France (partially virtual meeting)

Website: https://wims2020.sigappfr.org/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* 11th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2020)
September 14-17, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, May 13 (papers submission) !!!EXTENDED DEADLINE!!!

Website: https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* 22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2020)
September 16-20, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Deadline for submission:
*** Thursday, April 23 (abstracts submission)
*** Thursday, April 30 (papers submission)

Website: https://ekaw2020.inf.unibz.it/

* 6th Workshop on Semantic Deep Learning (SemDeep-6@ IJCAI-PRICAI 2020)
July 11-17, Yokohama, Japan

Deadline for submission:
*** Friday, April 24 (papers submission)
*** Friday, May 15 (WiC-TSV challenge submission)

Website: http://www.dfki.de/~declerck/semdeep-6/

* 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2020)
September 7-10, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (postponed to 2021, proceedings will be published)

Deadline for submission:
*** Saturday, April 25 (abstracts submission)
*** Friday, May 8 (papers submission)

Website: https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/

* Second International Workshop On Semantics And The Web For Transport (Sem4Tra 2020)
June 9, Helsinki, Finland

Deadline for submissions:
*** Sunday, April 26 (papers submission)

Website: https://sem4tra.linkeddata.es/

* 29th IEEE International Conference On Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020)
August 31 – September 4, Naples, Italy

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, April 29 (papers submission)
*** Saturday, June 20 (late break reports submission)

Website: http://ro-man2020.unina.it/

* ​​2nd Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference (​​KGSWC 2020)
July 28-31, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

Deadline for submissions:
*** Thursday, April 30 (demo/posters submission)

Website: http://www.kgswc.org/

* 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2020)
September 7-11, Coimbra, Portugal

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, May 8 (digital sound art submission)
*** Monday, May 25 (short papers submission)

Website: http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc20/

* Fair Heritage: Digital Methods, Scholarly Editing and Tools for Cultural and Natural Heritage (FAIR 2020)
June 17-19, Tours, France (virtual meeting)

Deadline for submissions:
*** Subday, May 10 (abstracts submission)

Website: http://www.lestudium-ias.com/event/fair-heritage-digital-methods-scholarly-editing-and-tools-cultural-and natural-heritage

* The 14th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing. Special Track on Semantic Web for the Internet of Agents (SWIA 2020)
September 21-23, Scilla (RC), Italy

Deadline for submissions:
*** Sunday, May 10 (papers submission)

Website: idc2020.unirc.it

* 1st International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH 2020)
September 21-22, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, May 15 (papers submission)

* 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020)
November 2-6, Athens, Greece (virtual meeting)

Deadline for submission:
*** Friday, May 15 (abstracts submission)
*** Monday, May 18 (doctoral consortium submission)
*** Friday, May 22 (papers submission)
*** Friday, June 26 (posters, demos and industry papers)

Website: https://iswc2020.semanticweb.org/

* 23rd International Conference on Discovery Science (DS)
October 19-21, Thessaloniki, Greece

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, May 20 (abstracts submission)
*** Monday, May 25 (papers submission)

Website: http://ds2020.csd.auth.gr/

* 11th International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2020)
September 16-19, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Deadline for submission:
*** Monday, May 25 (papers submission)

Website: https://icbo2020.inf.unibz.it/

* 17th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2020)
September 12-18, Rhodes, Greece

Deadline for submission:
*** Monday, June 8 (workshop papers submission)
*** Monday, June 15 (recent published research track submission)

Website: https://kr2020.inf.unibz.it/

* 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020)
August 31 – September 2, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Deadline for submissions:
*** Saturday, June 20 (Doctoral consortium applications submission)

Website: http://ecai2020.eu/

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

next meeting: n.239, April 28, 14:00 UTC
default dates: bi-weekly, on Tuesdays, 14:00 UTC

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

* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG

next meeting: n.78, May 4, 14:00 EDT
default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 15:00 EDT

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

SWAO wiki: https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/SWAO:Home

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:
https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/SWAO:Conference_Call_20200406

Next SWAO Meeting Webpage:
https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/SWAO:Conference_Call_20200504

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ONTOLOGY SUMMIT
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* Ontology Summit 2020
April 22, 12:00 EST, virtual meeting
(the Ontology Summit is organized and run by the Ontolog Community)
default dates: every Wednesday, 12.00 EST

Websites:
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2020
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/WikiHomePage
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2020_04_22

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FOIS 2020 – EXTENDED DEADLINE: MAY 13, 2020

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Foremost, the FOIS 2020 organizing committee hopes you are all in good health and not too low spirits in the present situation!

The updated deadline for submission to FOIS is MAY 13.

Though it is not possible at the moment to reach a final decision about the shape of  the conference event itself, we can announce that the organisation team of FOIS 2020 is committed to publishing the FOIS proceedings with IOS Press in 2020, in electronic format with permanent open access.

Thus, the paper submission and selection process will run just as expected. FOIS will happen as a face-to-face event in Bolzano when it is safe to travel. Ideally, in September 2020 but otherwise at a later date in 2021, in coordination with other BOSK events.

Physical attendance at FOIS 2020 will be optional for the authors, regardless of whether the conference will happen in September 2020 or at some later date in 2021.

We warmly invite you all again to submit your papers to FOIS 2020.

The FOIS 2020 Organizing Committee

IAOA first 2020 Virtual Assembly Announcement

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Dear IAOA members,

Our Statutes [1] require the Association’s Financial Statement to be formally approved every year by a (virtual) assembly.

This is a formal invitation to participate in the first 2020 virtual assembly, whose main purpose is to discuss and approve the 2019 Financial Statement. The report from the Auditors on the Financial Statement and the proposed budget for 2020 will also be made available.

The auditors are currently examining the financial documents.
We will send a brief notification as soon as the Financial Statement,  approved by the auditors, is available, by April 16. Then the discussion on it (and possibly other issues concerning the Association) can take place until April 23, 2020. Finalized details will be published by April 28, 2020. The voting period will be April 29-May 6, 2020 — save these dates!

Everyone with an active IAOA membership is eligible to vote. Detailed voting instructions will be available from the Assembly page [2] and shall be distributed anew at ballot opening.

The Assembly may approve the Financial Statement by simple majority; there is no quorum. The outcome of the voting will be announced to the members’ mailing list by May 8, 2020.

Laure Vieu
President, IAOA

[1] https://iaoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/iaoa-ch-statute-2016-06-23-en_v12.pdf

[2] https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/IAOA_Assembly_2020_04

MARCH 2020 – NEWSLETTER

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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. 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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BOLZANO SUMMER OF KNOWLEDGE
=========================================================

The dates of FOIS 2020 have been announced: it will take place in Bolzano from September 14 to 17 2020. It will be part of a great wider event, the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge, a month of knowledge in September 2020. JOWO and ISAO will also be part of it.

Please check the webpages for updates:

*** BoSK 2020: https://summerofknowledge.inf.unibz.it
*** FOIS 2020: https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it
*** JOWO 2020: https://iaoa.org/jowo/
*** ISAO 2020: https://isao2020.inf.unibz.it
*** EKAW 2020: https://ekaw2020.inf.unibz.it/
*** ICBO 2020: https://icbo2020.inf.unibz.it/

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

* Track on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning at the 35th ACM SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (KRR@SAC 2020)
March 30 – April 3, Brno, Check Republic

Website: http://www.dmi.unipg.it/bista/organizing/KRR@sac2020

* 5th Workshop on Formal Reasoning about Causation, Responsibility, & Explanations in Science & Technology (CREST 2020)
April 25, Dublin, Ireland

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/crest2020

* 6th International Workshop on Computational Terminology (COMPUTERM 2020)
May 16, Marseille, France

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/computerm2020

* 1st Workshop of the International Cartography Association Commission on Geospatial Semantics (CGS 2020)
May 19, Redlands, CA, USA

Website: https://easychair.org/cfp/CGS2020

* 23rd International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR23)
May 22-27, Alicante, Spain

Website: https://easychair.org/cfp/LPAR-23

* 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2020)
May 31 – June 4, Heraklion, Greece

Website: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* 11th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2020)
September 14-17, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, April 15 (papers submission)

Website: https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* 10th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining & Semantics (WIMS 2020)
June 30 – July 3, Biarritz, France

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, March 16 (papers submission)

Website: https://wims2020.sigappfr.org/

* 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2020)
May 31 – June 4, Heraklion, Greece

Deadline for submissions:
*** Thursday, March 19 (posters, demos and industry track submission)

Website: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/

* 15th International Conference on Deontic Logic and Normative Systems (DEON 2020)
July 30 – August 2, Munich, Germany

Deadline for submissions:
*** Sunday, March 22 (papers submission)

Website: https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/events/workshops/container/deon-2020/index.html

* 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2020)
September 7-10, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Deadline for submission:
*** Monday, March 23 (workshop proposals submission)
*** Saturday, April 18 (abstracts submission)
*** Saturday, April 25 (papers submission)
*** Monday, May 25 (industry and use case presentations submission)
*** Monday, June 22 (posters and demos submission)

Website: https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/

* 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020)
November 2-6, Athens, Greece

Deadline for submission:
*** Friday, March 27 (abstracts submission)
*** Friday, April 3 (papers submission)
*** Monday, May 18 (doctoral consortium submission)

Website: https://iswc2020.semanticweb.org/

* 8th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop (LDAC 2020)
June 17-19, Dublin, Ireland

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, March 27 (papers submission)

Website: http://linkedbuildingdata.net/ldac2020/

* 29th IEEE International Conference On Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020)
August 31 – September 4, Naples, Italy

Deadline for submissions:
*** Sunday, March 29 (papers submission)
*** Monday, June 15 (late break reports submission)

Website: http://ro-man2020.unina.it/

* ​​2nd Iberoamerican Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web Conference (​​KGSWC 2020)
July 28-31, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, March 30 (papers submission)

Website: http://www.kgswc.org/

* Fair Heritage: Digital Methods, Scholarly Editing and Tools for Cultural and Natural Heritage (FAIR 2020)
June 17-19, Tours, France

Deadline for submissions:
*** Tuesday, March 31 (posters submission)

Website: http://www.lestudium-ias.com/event/fair-heritage-digital-methods-scholarly-editing-and-tools-cultural-and natural-heritage

* 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020)
June 8-12, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, April 1 (Doctoral consortium applications submission)

Website: http://ecai2020.eu/

* 32nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2020)
June 8-12, Grenoble, France

Deadline for submission:
*** Friday, April 3 (Forum submission)
*** Friday, April 3 (Doctoral Consortium submission)

Website: http://caise20.imag.fr/

* The 14th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing. Special Track on Semantic Web for the Internet of Agents (SWIA 2020)
September 21-23, Scilla (RC), Italy

Deadline for submissions:
*** Sunday, April 12 (papers submission)

Website: idc2020.unirc.it

* 1st Workshop of the International Cartography Association Commission on Geospatial Semantics (CGS 2020)
May 19, Redlands, CA, USA

Deadline for submission:
*** Wednesday, April 15 (abstracts submission)

Website: https://easychair.org/cfp/CGS2020

* 11th International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2020)
September 16-19, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Deadline for submission:
*** Monday, April 20 (papers submission)

Website: https://icbo2020.inf.unibz.it/

* 22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2020)
September 16-20, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Deadline for submission:
*** Thursday, April 23 (abstracts submission)
*** Thursday, April 30 (papers submission)

Website: https://ekaw2020.inf.unibz.it/

* 6th Workshop on Semantic Deep Learning (SemDeep-6@ IJCAI-PRICAI 2020)
July 11-17, Yokohama, Japan

Deadline for submission:
*** Friday, April 24 (papers submission)
*** Friday, May 1 (WiC-TSV challenge submission)

Website: http://www.dfki.de/~declerck/semdeep-6/

* Second International Workshop On Semantics And The Web For Transport (Sem4Tra 2020)
June 9, Helsinki, Finland

Deadline for submissions:
*** Sunday, April 26 (papers submission)

Website: https://sem4tra.linkeddata.es/

* 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2020)
June 29 – July 3, Coimbra, Portugal

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, May 4 (short papers submission)

Website: http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc20/

* 1st International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH 2020)
September 21-22, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, May 15 (papers submission)

* 23rd International Conference on Discovery Science (DS)
October 19-21, Thessaloniki, Greece

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, May 20 (abstracts submission)
*** Monday, May 25 (papers submission)

Website: http://ds2020.csd.auth.gr/

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA COMMITTEES AND SIGS
=============================================

* Executive Council (EC) Meeting

next meeting: n.236, March 17, 14:00 UTC
default dates: bi-weekly, on Tuesdays, 14:00 UTC

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

* EduTC Meetings – Technical Committee on Education

next meeting: n. 48, April 1, 14:30 UTC
default dates: 1st Wednesday of each month, 14:30 UTC

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

EduTC Webpage:

Scientific Committees and Special Interest Groups

EduTC Wiki: https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:Home

* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG

next meeting: n.77, April 6, 14:00 EDT
default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 15:00 EDT

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

SWAO wiki: https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/SWAO:Home

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:
https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/SWAO:Conference_Call_20200302

Next SWAO Meeting Webpage:
https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/SWAO:Conference_Call_20200406

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ONTOLOGY SUMMIT
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* Ontology Summit 2020
March 18, 12:00 EST, virtual meeting
(the Ontology Summit is organized and run by the Ontolog Community)
default dates: every Wednesday, 12.00 EST

Websites:
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2020
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/WikiHomePage
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2020_03_18

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FEBRUARY 2020 NEWSLETTER

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Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the February 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. 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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BOLZANO SUMMER OF KNOWLEDGE
=========================================================

The dates of FOIS 2020 have been announced: it will take place in Bolzano from September 14 to 17 2020. It will be part of a great wider event, the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge, a month of knowledge in September 2020. JOWO and ISAO will also be part of it.

Please check the webpages for updates:

*** BoSK 2020: https://summerofknowledge.inf.unibz.it
*** FOIS 2020: https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it
*** JOWO 2020: https://iaoa.org/jowo/
*** ISAO 2020: https://isao2020.inf.unibz.it
*** EKAW 2020: https://ekaw2020.inf.unibz.it/
*** ICBO 2020: https://icbo2020.inf.unibz.it/

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

* 11th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FolKS 2020)
February, 17-21, Dortmund, Germany

Website: https://foiks2020.cs.tu-dortmund.de/

* 3rd U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium 2020
March 9-11, Raleigh, NC, USA

Website: https://us2ts.org/

* Track on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning at the 35th ACM SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (KRR@SAC 2020)
March 30 – April 3, Brno, Check Republic

Website: http://www.dmi.unipg.it/bista/organizing/KRR@sac2020

* 5th Workshop on Formal Reasoning about Causation, Responsibility, & Explanations in Science & Technology (CREST 2020)
April 25, Dublin, Ireland

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/crest2020

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* The Joint Ontology Workshops – Episode 6_ The Bolzano Summer of Knowledge (JOWO 2020)
Bolzano, during the week of September 14-20, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Deadline for submission:
*** Saturday, February 15 (workshop and tutorial proposals submission)

Website: https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2020

* 11th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2020)
September 14-17, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Deadline for submissions:
*** Thursday, March 19 (papers submission)

Website: https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* 29th IEEE International Conference On Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020)
August 31 – September 4, Naples, Italy

Deadline for submissions:
*** Sunday, February 16 (workshop and tutorial proposals submission)
*** Sunday, March 15 (papers submission)
*** Monday, June 15 (late break reports submission)

Website: http://ro-man2020.unina.it/

* 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2020)
June 29 – July 3, Coimbra, Portugal

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, February 17 (workshop proposals submission)
*** Sunday, March 1 (papers submission)

Website: http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc20/

* 23rd International Conference on logic programming, artificial intelligence and reasoning (LPAR-23)
May 22-27, Alicante, Spain

Deadline for submissions:
*** Tuesday, February 18 (abstracts submission)
*** Saturday, February 22 (papers submission)

Website: https://easychair.org/smart-program/LPAR23/

* 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020)
June 8-12, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Deadline for submissions:
*** Thursday, February 20 (tutorial proposals submission)
*** Friday, February 21 (STAIRS papers submission)
*** Wednesday, April 1 (Doctoral consortium applications submission)

Website: http://ecai2020.eu/

* 12th Biennial Collective Intentionality Conference (Social Ontology 2020)
July 13-16, Neuchatel, Switzerland

Deadline for submissions:
*** Thursday, February 20 (abstracts submission)

Website: https://isosonline.org/Social-Ontology-2020

* Join Workshop on Computational Terminology (COMPUTERM 2020)
May 16, Marseille (France)

Deadline for submissions:
*** Thursday, February 20 (papers submission)

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/computerm2020

* 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2020)
May 31 – June 4, Heraklion, Greece

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, February 28 (workshop papers submission)
*** Thursday, March 12 (posters, demos and industry track submission)

Website: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/

* 31st Journées francophones d’Ingénierie des Connaissance dans le cadre de Plate-Forme de l’Intelligence Artificielle (IC@PFIA 2020)
June 29-July 3, Angers, France

Deadline for submissions:
*** Sunday, March 1 (papers submission)

Website: http://pfia2020.fr/ic-2020/

* 17th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2020)
September 12-18, Rhodes, Greece

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday March 4 (title and abstract submission)
*** Wednesday March 11 (papers submission)
*** Monday, June 8 (workshop papers submission)
*** Monday, June 15 (recent published research tracks submission)

Website: https://kr2020.inf.unibz.it/

* 32nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2020)
June 8-12, Grenoble, France

Deadline for submission:
*** Sunday, March 8 (Forum submission)

Website: http://caise20.imag.fr/

* 8th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop (LDAC 2020)
June 17-19, Dublin, Ireland

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, March 13 (papers submission)

Website: http://linkedbuildingdata.net/ldac2020/

* Fair Heritage: Digital Methods, Scholarly Editing and Tools for Cultural and Natural Heritage (FAIR 2020)
June 17-19, Tours, France

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, March 13 (papers submission)

Website: http://www.lestudium-ias.com/event/fair-heritage-digital-methods-scholarly-editing-and-tools-cultural-and-natural-heritage

* 33rd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR2020)
June 8-12, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Deadline for submissions:
*** Sunday, March 15 8papers submission)

Website: https://sme.uni-bamberg.de/qr2020

* 10th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining & Semantics (WIMS 2020)
June 30 – July 3, Biarritz, France

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, March 16 (papers submission)

Website: https://wims2020.sigappfr.org/

* 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020)
November 2-6, Athens, Greece

Deadline for submission:
*** Friday, March 27 (abstracts submission)
*** Friday, April 3 (papers submission)

Website: https://iswc2020.semanticweb.org/

* 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2020)
September 7-10, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Deadline for submission:
*** Saturday, April 18 (abstracts submission)
*** Saturday, April 25 (papers submission)

Website: https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/

* 11th International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2020)
September 16-19, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Deadline for submission:
*** Monday, April 20 (papers submission)

Website: https://icbo2020.inf.unibz.it/

* 22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2020)
September 16-20, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Deadline for submission:
*** Thursday, April 23 (abstracts submission)
*** Thursday, April 30 (papers submission)

Website: https://ekaw2020.inf.unibz.it/

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

next meeting: n.234, February 18, 14:00 UTC
default dates: bi-weekly, on Tuesdays, 14:00 UTC

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

* EduTC Meetings – Technical Committee on Education

next meeting: n. 48, March 4, 14:30 UTC
default dates: 1st Wednesday of each month, 14:30 UTC

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

EduTC Webpage:

Scientific Committees

EduTC Wiki: https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:Home

* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG

next meeting: n.77, March 2, 14:00 EST
default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 14:00 EST

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

SWAO wiki: https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/SWAO:Home

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:
https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/SWAO:Conference_Call_20200203

Next SWAO Meeting Webpage:
https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/SWAO:Conference_Call_20200302

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ONTOLOGY SUMMIT
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* Ontology Summit 2020
February 19, 12:00 EST, virtual meeting
(the Ontology Summit is organized and run by the Ontolog Community)
default dates: every Wednesday, 12.00 EST

Websites:
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2020
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/WikiHomePage
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2020_02_19

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FOIS 2020 – CALL FOR PAPERS

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11th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2020)

September 14-17, 2020, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it/___ New submission deadline: 15 April (strict deadline) ___

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CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS – NEW
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Arianna Betti, University of Amsterdam
Nicola Guarino, ISTC-CNR, Trento
Stefan Schulz, Medical University of Graz———————————–

DEFINITION AND SCOPE
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The advent of complex information systems that rely on robust, coherent and formal representations of their subject matter, has led to the exploitation of ontological analysis and ontology-based representation. The systematic study of such analysis and representation is at the center of the modern discipline of formal ontology, which is a general theory of the types of entities and relations making up domains of interest.Researchers in many domains engage with formal ontology to provide a solid foundation for their work. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, and the Semantic Web.

The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. The conference encourages new high quality submissions on both theoretical issues and concrete applications. As in previous years, FOIS 2020 aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication.

FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: http://iaoa.org/), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology.

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FORMAT
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FOIS 2020 includes a number of activities:
* FOIS conference (single track program)
* workshops (in conjunction with EKAW 2020 and ICBO 2020)
* tutorials (in conjunction with EKAW 2020 and ICBO 2020)
* a young researchers symposium
* a demo and industry track
* an ontology show and tell—————————–
IMPORTANT DATES – UPDATED
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* Paper Submission Deadline: 15 April 2020 (strict deadline)
* Notification: 22 June 2020
* Camera-ready Papers: 10 July 2020
* Conference Dates: 14-17 September 2020
More information on: https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it/

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SUBMISSIONS
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FOIS seeks full-length high-quality papers on a wide range of topics. An ideal FOIS paper will address both content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, as well as their impact and relevance for some aspect of information systems. Please refer to the FOIS submissions page for submission details (https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it/call-for-papers/). As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press.
Submission link:

Related activities, such as workshops and tutorials, may specify different submission formats, for example, short papers or posters. Please refer to the relevant related activity page for submission and publication details.

See also:  https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2020/

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Areas of particular interest to FOIS include the following:

Foundational Issues
* Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts
* Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation
* Vagueness and granularity
* Space, time, and changeMethodological issues
* Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies
* Role of reference ontologies
* Ontology similarity, integration and alignment
* Ontology modularity, contextuality, and evolution
* Formal comparison among ontologies
* Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, context
* Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs

Domain-specific ontologies
* Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion etc.)
* Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells etc.)
* Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions, cognition,  etc.)
* Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles
* Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions etc.)

Applications
* Ontology-driven information systems design
* Ontological foundations for conceptual modeling
* Knowledge management
* Qualitative modeling
* Computational linguistics
* Information retrieval
* Semantic Web
* Business modeling
* Ontologies and Machine Learning
* Ontologies and Explainable AI
* Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics etc.)
* Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture etc.
* Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, etc.
* Ontologies for the social sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology, etc.

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CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
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General Chair
* Roberta Ferrario (ISTC CNR, Trento, Italy)

Program Chairs
* Boyan Brodaric (Geological Survey of Canada, Canada)
* Fabian Neuhaus (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany)

Local Organization
* Oliver Kutz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
* Nicolas Troquard (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)

Publicity Chairs
* Guendalina Righetti (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
* Maria Hedblom (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)

Proceedings Chair
* Megan Katsumi (University of Toronto)

Workshop / Tutorial Chairs
* Torsten Hahmann (University of Maine)
* Claudio Masolo (ISTC CNR, Trento, Italy)

Ontology Show and Tell
* Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto)
* Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig)

Early Career Symposium
* Pawel Garbacz (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
* Selja Seppala (University College Cork)

Demo and Industrial Track Chairs
* Robert Hoehndorf (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
* Amanda Vizedom (Credit Suisse)

JOWO 2020 – CALL FOR WORKSHOPS

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The Joint Ontology Workshops – JOWO 2020
Episode 6: The Bolzano Summer of Knowledge /
Workshop Days of EKAW – ICBO – FOIS

http://bosk2020.inf.unibz.it
https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2020

Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

* Submission deadline: February 15, 2020 *
* Notification: March 1, 2020 *

The Joint Workshop Committees of BOSK 2020 invite proposals for workshops and tutorials for EKAW, ICBO and FOIS as part of the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge, held during the week of September 14-20, 2020.

Workshops and tutorials at JOWO 2020 are events whose scientific program is independently established by the workshop organizers. They will be responsible for advertising the workshop and reviewing and selecting the contributions. Workshops can be events that provide a forum for the discussion of topics broadly related to ontologies, formal ontology, and knowledge management and their application in information science or other areas. Together, the JOWO workshops can address a wide spectrum of topics related to ontology research, ranging from Cognitive Science to Knowledge Representation, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics. 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).

As in earlier years, all contributions to JOWO workshops will be published open access in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, as part of the new IAOA series (http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html).

We welcome proposals from researchers and practitioners interested in the theory, practice, development and/or application of ontologies and related areas are invited to submit workshop proposals for review.

We encourage several forms and length 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 exchange of ideas between groups otherwise mostly disconnected.

SUBMISSION

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;
– select one primary conference affiliation: EKAW, FOIS, or ICBO (for reviewing and scheduling purposes; a brief description of each conference can be found below);
– names of the workshop/tutorial organizers;
– brief description of experience in workshop/tutorial organization;
– 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, if applicable please relate this to participation in similar prior events);
– intended duration of the workshop (between half a day and a full day);
– timeline for the workshop (submission dates, notification dates), taking into account the proposed “important dates” below.

Workshop proposals should be sent tojowo.steering@gmail.com by February 15, 2020.

EVALUATION

Submissions of workshop proposals will be evaluated by the workshop chairs of JOWO 2020 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, 2020 – Workshop proposal submission deadline
– March 1, 2020 – Workshop acceptance notification
– March 16, 2020 – 1st call for papers to be distributed by workshop organizers
– September 14-20, 2020 – Workshops in Bolzano in conjunction with EKAW, FOIS and ICBO

FURTHER INQUIRIES

In case of further questions please contactjowo.steering@gmail.com

DESCRIPTION AND SCOPE OF EKAW, ICBO, AND FOIS

The International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW) is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modelling and managing knowledge, as well its role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent information integration, etc. The focus of EKAW 2020 will be “Ethical and Trustworthy Knowledge Engineering”. EKAW workshops should provide an informal setting where participants have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. EKAW tutorials should enable attendees to appreciate, evaluate, or utilize relevant trends, methods, tools, models, etc.

The International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO) is a premier annual conference series that brings together researchers, students and professionals involved in the development and application of ontologies in all areas of biology, medicine, diseases, human health, genome biology, environment, biomes, nutrition, food, plants, agriculture and others. ICBO workshops provide the opportunity to discuss and progress a variety of issues at the forefront of biomedical ontologies and to build communities around specific topic areas. ICBO tutorials should provide a rich forum for education, training and dissemination to advance the next generation of biomedical ontologists and share knowledge about infrastructure, standards and platforms for advanced tooling.

The International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information System (FOIS) is a biennial conference, which is dedicated to interdisciplinary research at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in the applications of ontological analysis to specific domains. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA). Given its scope and since FOIS is a single track conference, presentations at FOIS typically cover a broad range of subjects. FOIS workshops complement the main conference by providing a venue for presentations and discussions on a particular subject area. FOIS tutorials should provide an introduction to methods, theories, standards, infrastructure or tools that are of interest to FOIS participants.

EKAW 2020 – CALL FOR PAPERS

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EKAW 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS https://ekaw2020.inf.unibz.it/
Part of the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge 2020. https://summerofknowledge.inf.unibz.it

Research, in-use and position papers

The 22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management concerns all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and the role of knowledge in the construction of systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent information integration, and so on.

The special theme of EKAW 2020 is “Ethical and Trustworthy Knowledge Engineering”. While recent reported breaches relate predominantly to machine learning systems, it is not impossible to envision ethical breaches in knowledge engineering more broadly and, conversely, devise methods and techniques to ensure no or minimal harm in knowledge acquisition, modelling, and knowledge-driven information systems. EKAW 2020 will put a special emphasis on the importance of Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management to keep fostering trustworthy systems.

Proceedings

The proceedings of the research track will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.

Topics of interest

EKAW 2020 welcomes papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, experimental, and application-oriented aspects of knowledge engineering and knowledge management.

In particular, but not exclusively, we solicit papers about methods, tools and methodologies on the following topics:

  • Ethical and Trustworthy Knowledge Engineering
    • Ethics and trust in automated reasoning
    • Algorithmic transparency and explanations for knowledge-based systems
    • Knowledge and ethics
    • Ontologies for trust and ethics
    • Trust and privacy in knowledge representation
  • Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition
    • Tools and methodologies for ontology engineering
    • Ontology design patterns
    • Ontology localisation
    • Multilinguality in ontologies
    • Ontology alignment
    • Knowledge authoring and semantic annotation
    • Knowledge acquisition from non-ontological resources (thesauri, folksonomies, etc.)
    • Semi-automatic knowledge acquisition, e.g., ontology learning
    • Collaborative knowledge acquisition and formalisation
    • Mining the Semantic Web and the Web of Data
    • Ontology evaluation and metrics
    • Uncertainty and vagueness in knowledge representation
    • Dealing with dynamic, distributed and emerging knowledge
  • Knowledge Management
    • Methodologies and tools for knowledge management
    • Knowledge sharing and distribution, collaboration
    • Best practices and lessons learned from case studies
    • Provenance and trust in knowledge management
    • FAIR data and knowledge
    • Methods for accelerating take-up of knowledge management technologies
    • Corporate memories for knowledge management
    • Knowledge evolution, maintenance and preservation
    • Incentives for human knowledge acquisition and data quality improvement (e.g. games with a purpose)
  • Social and Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation
    • Similarity and analogy-based reasoning
    • Knowledge representation inspired by cognitive science
    • Synergies between humans and machines
    • Knowledge emerging from user interaction and networks
    • Knowledge ecosystems
    • Expert finding, e.g., by social network analysis
    • Collaborative and social approaches to knowledge management and acquisition
    • Crowdsourcing in knowledge management
  • Knowledge discovery
    • Mining patterns and association rules
    • Mining complex data: numbers, sequences, trees, graphs
    • Formal Concept Analysis and extensions
    • Numerical data mining methods and knowledge processing
    • Mining the web of data for knowledge construction
    • Text mining and ontology engineering
    • Classification and clustering for knowledge management
    • Symbolic and sub-symbolic learning machine learningÂ
  • Applications in specific domains such as
    • eGovernment and public administration
    • Life sciences, health and medicine
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Automotive and manufacturing industry
    • Cultural heritage
    • Digital libraries
    • Geosciences
    • ICT4D (Knowledge in the developing world)

Type of papers

We will accept different types of papers. The papers will all have the same status and follow the same formatting guidelines in the proceedings but will receive special treatment during the reviewing phase. In particular, each paper type will be subject to its own evaluation criteria. The Programme Committee will also make sure that there is a reasonable balance of the paper types accepted. At submission time the paper has to be clearly identified as belonging to one of the following categories.

  • Research papers: These are “standard” papers presenting a novel method, technique or analysis with appropriate empirical or other types of evaluation as a proof-of-concept. The main evaluation criteria here will be originality, technical soundness and validation.
  • In-use papers: Here we are expecting papers describing applications of knowledge management and engineering in real environments. Applications need to address a sufficiently interesting and challenging problem on real-world datasets, involving many users, etc. The focus is less on the originality of the approach and more on presenting systems that solve a significant problem while addressing the particular challenges that come with the use of real-world data. Evaluations are essential for this type of paper and should involve a representative subset of the actual users of the system.
  • Position papers: We invite researchers to also publish position papers, which describe novel and innovative ideas. Position papers may also comprise an analysis of currently unsolved problems, or review these problems from a new perspective, in order to contribute to a better understanding of these problems in the research community. We expect that such papers will guide future research by highlighting critical assumptions, motivating the difficulty of a certain problem or explaining why current techniques are not sufficient, possibly corroborated by quantitative and qualitative arguments.

Important dates

  • Abstract deadline: April 23, 2020
  • Submission deadline: April 30, 2020
  • Notification of acceptance: June 23, 2020
  • Camera-ready paper: July 2, 2020
  • Conference days: September 16-20, 2020

All submission deadlines are 23:59:59 Hawaii Time.

Submissions

Pre-submission of abstracts is a strict requirement. All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via Easychair.
All submissions for research, in-use, and position papers must be in English, and no longer than 15 pages. Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review.

Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer”s Author Instructions.

Organization

General chairs

  • Oliver Kutz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
  • Rafael Peñaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)

Program chairs

  • Michel Dumontier (Maastricht University, the Netherlands)
  • Maria Keet (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

ICBO 2020 – CALL FOR PAPERS

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>> ICBO | ODLS 2020 <<   1st Call for Papers

https://icbo2020.inf.unibz.it/

Main research track submissions due:  April 20, 2020

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11th International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO)

10th Workshop on Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences (ODLS)

held jointly as part of the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge (BOSK 2020)

September 16-19, 2020       Bolzano, Italy

== Scope and Topics ==

The International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO) [1] is a premier annual conference series that brings together researchers, students and professionals involved in the development and application of ontologies in all areas of biology, medicine, diseases, human health, genome biology, environment, biomes, nutrition, food, plants, agriculture and others.

This year, ICBO will be held jointly with Ontologies and Data for the Life Sciences (ODLS), an annual workshop series that focuses on ontologies, data management and data processing in the life sciences and in health care. It covers the overall spectrum of biomedical information management, from experimental data acquisition and preprocessing across analysis, structuring and interpretation of data, up to developing structured representations of knowledge, in particular in the form of ontologies, with their various applications.

The theme for ICBO|ODLS 2020 is “Ontology across Boundaries”, although submissions on any topic related to bio-ontologies are welcome. The theme includes, for example:

* Ontologies and associated methods and tools at the practical
interfaces between different yet interrelated disciplines and
communities of practice (e.g. biology–chemistry,
immunology–epidemiology etc.)
* Ontologies and associated methods and tools overcoming boundaries
between basic research and translation
* Ontology as a tool for open science to reduce segregation of
research results and improve access to the full body of knowledge
across scientific disciplines, especially as applied to urgent
topics such as the climate crisis
* Ontologies and associated methods and tools in practice across
national boundaries (e.g. medical ontologies needing to serve
international contexts)
* Ontologies and the socioeconomic boundaries that can lead to
differences in health outcomes in different population groups
* Ontology in translation: ontologies supporting knowledge, data and
applications in multiple languages
* Ontologies in relation: interrelating ontologies (e.g. at different
levels of granularity or specificity) and linking ontologies to
terminologies, models and data standards
* Overcoming the practical boundaries of ontologies in integrated
applications including data annotation, data integration, data
science, machine learning and other artificial intelligence
technologies

ICBO|ODLS 2020 is part of the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge (BOSK) [2], therefore co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW) [3] and the 11th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) [4], as well as several additional events.

== Important Dates ==
[all dates in 2020]
Main research paper track:
* Submission deadline                  April 20  (Mon)
* Notification                          June 04  (Thu)
* Camera-ready versions                 July 15  (Wed)

All other tracks                TBA  (submission not before June)
Conference dates                September 16-19  (Wed-Sat)

All submission deadlines refer to 23:59:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12).

== Types of Papers ==

ICBO|ODLS 2020 is soliciting submissions of novel (not previously published nor concurrently submitted) research papers in the areas of the application of ontologies to biomedical problems, ontology-based methods, ontology design and ontology interoperability, at any stage in the process from data creation to use in applications or scientific analyses. Submissions will be welcome from a broad range of approaches to ontology building and use.

In addition, we would like to invite contributions showcasing methods for ontology-based research, including statistical methods, and papers addressing the challenges associated with working with multiple ontologies at the same time, including ontology development, visualization, annotation of data, analysis, and applications.

Accordingly, there are several categories of submissions, corresponding to distinct tracks of the conference:

* full-length research papers (8-10 pages)
* full-length tools and applications papers (8-10 pages)
* poster abstracts (2 pages)
* early career researcher symposium abstracts (5 pages)

A selection of successful poster abstracts will be invited to give flash presentations during the conference.

Contributions must be delivered non-anonymously and as a single PDF file. They must be formatted using the IOS Press template [5] (one-column format, available for Microsoft Word and LaTeX) according to the guidelines for book authors. The same template is required for submissions to FOIS [4] as well as to ICBO and other workshops held in the context of BOSK [2].

== Submission and Proceedings ==

Contributions will need to be submitted via EasyChair. A corresponding link will soon be available at the ICBO|ODLS website [1].

A Best Paper Award, Best Poster Award, Best Tool and Application Award, and Best Early Career Contribution Award will be awarded at the conference.

All accepted papers and abstracts will be published open access in an issue of the IAOA series of CEUR-WS [6]. Moreover, accepted papers will be invited to submit an expanded version to a special issue collection in an open access journal (further details to be announced at the conference website [1]).

== Contact ==

For more information please email us at icbo2020@unibz.it [7].

== Organizing Committee ==

Conference Chairs:
* Janna Hastings (University College London, UK)
* Frank Loebe    (Univ. of Leipzig, Germany)

Tools and Applications Chairs:
* Phillip Lord (Newcastle Univ., UK)
* James Overton (Knocean, inc. & OBO Foundry)

Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:
* Robert Hoehndorf (KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi-Arabia)
* Randi Vita (LJI, La Jolla, USA & OBO Foundry)

Early Career Chairs:
* Adrien Barton (IRIT, Toulouse, France & Univ. of Sherbrooke, Canada)
* Nicole Vasilevsky (Oregon Health & Science Univ., Portland, USA)

Publicity Chair:
* Jennifer Warrender (Newcastle Univ., UK)

Local Organizing Committee at Free Univ. of Bolzano, Italy:
* Oliver Kutz [Local Chair]
* Pietro Galliani
* Guendalina Righetti
* Nicolas Troquard

== Links ==

[1] ICBO|ODLS 2020 website

https://icbo2020.inf.unibz.it/

[2] BOSK 2020 website

https://summerofknowledge.inf.unibz.it/

[3] Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW) 2020 website

https://ekaw2020.inf.unibz.it/

[4] Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) 2020 website

https://fois2020.inf.unibz.it/

[5] IOS Press templates for book authors

https://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/

[6] CEUR Workshop Proceedings: IAOA Series

http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html

[7] ICBO|ODLS 2020 contact email

icbo2020@unibz.it

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