IAOA

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”
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[2] calendar: “IAOA Check Deadlines”
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[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

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.

 

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

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* AAAI 2018 – 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

February 2-7, New Orleans (Louisiana, USA)

Website: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai18.php

 

*CoCoSym 2018 – Cognitive Computation Symposium: Thinking Beyond Deep Learning

February, 27, London (UK)

Website: http://www.neural-symbolic.org/CoCoSym2018/index.html

 

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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, March 2 (workshop/tutorial proposals submission)

***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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*UKON 2018 – UK Ontology Network

April 30, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

 

Deadline for submissions:

***Friday, March 2 (abstract submission)

Website: http://ukontology.org/

 

 

*ICBO 2018 – International Conference on Biomedical Ontology

August 7-10, Corvallis, Oregon, US

 

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 Conference on the Semantic Web

October 8-12, Monterey, California, US

 

Deadline for submissions:

***Friday, March 30 (abstract submission)

***Friday, April 6 (paper submission)

Website: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/

 

* ISWS 2018 – The International Semantic Web Research Summer School

July, 1-7, Bertinoro, Italy

 

Deadline for applications:

***Saturday, March 31

Website: http://isws2018.semanticwebschool.org/

 

 

 

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES

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* EduTC Meetings – Technical Committee on Education

next: n.26, February 6, 2018, time newly TBD

default dates: newly TBD

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

 

* Executive Council Meeting

next: n.187, February 5, 2018, 14:30 UTC

default dates: bi-weekly, Mondays, time newly TBD

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

 

* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG

next: n.51, February 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/

 

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:

http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_50

 

* Ontology Summit 2018: Sessions continue in January

next: February 7, 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

 

Provisional 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

Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the October 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”
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[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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* VORTE 2017 – 9th International Workshop on Vocabularies,
Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise
October 10, 2017, Quebec City, Canada
Website: http://edoc2017.ca/vorte-2017/
Involvement: IAOA funding of 500 EUR (EC meeting n.164, Feb 13)

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* MEDI 2017 – The 7th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering
October, 4-6, Barcelona (Spain)
Website: http://www.essi.upc.edu/dtim/medi2017/

* Protg Short Course
October, 911, Stanford, California (USA)
Website: http://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse/201710

* IDC 2017- The 11th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing
October, 1113, Belgrade (Serbia)
Website: http://idc2017.pmf.uns.ac.rs

* GCAI 2017 – The 3rd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence
October, 1822, Miami, Florida (USA)
Website: http://easychair.org/smart-program/GCAI2017/

* ISWC 2017 – 16th International Semantic Web Conference
October, 2125, Vienna (Austria)
Website: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/

* WOMoCoE 2017 @ ISWC 2017 – 2nd International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution
October, 22, Vienna (Austria)
Website: http://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/womocoe2017/

* ODBASE 2017 – The 16th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics
October, 2425, Rhodes (Greece)
Website: http://www.otmconferences.org/index.php/conferences/odbase-2017

* ER 2017 – 36th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
November, 69, Valencia (Spain)
Website: http://er2017.pros.webs.upv.es/

* OntoCoM 2017 @ ER 2017 – 5th International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling
November, 6, Valencia (Spain)
Website: http://er2017.pros.webs.upv.es/ontocom-2017/

* AI*IA 2017 – The 16th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
November, 1417, Bari (Italy)
Website: http://aiia2017.di.uniba.it/

* GenSW 2017 @ AI*IA – 1st International Workshop on “Generalizing knowledge: from Machine Learning and
Knowledge Representation to the Semantic Web”
November, 1417, Bari (Italy)
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/gensw2017/

* ROBOT 2017 [ontology & KR session]
November, 2224, Seville (Spain)
Website: https://grvc.us.es/robot2017/

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES
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* Executive Council Meeting n.180, October 10, 2017
EC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaorga/council/council.html

* EduTC Meetings – Technical Committee on Education
date for n.24: week of October 09, day and time TBD
EduTC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaTC/TCeducation/TCeducation.php

* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG
Default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 18:30 UTC
yields: n.48 – October 02, 2017, 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_47

* Ontology Summit 2018: Research Session during Planning Phase
Date for conference call: October 4, 18:00 19:30 UTC
website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2018
confcall: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2017_10_04

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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
(it is intended that both events are temporally well-matched)

Dates:
** FOIS: Sep 17-18 workshop days
Sep 19-21 main conference
** ISAO: during the week starting September 10, 2018 (exact date TBC)
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Status:
** IAOA PC chairs approved by the EC:
Stefano Borgo ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy
Pascal Hitzler Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA
Next steps:
** Website setup
** Calls scheduling and announcement

Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the July 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 CO-ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* 2017 IAOA Summer Institute
August, 8-11, University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada)
Website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/SummerInstitute2017

! Register by: July 17, 2017 !

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UPCOMING EVENTS SPONSORED/SUPPORTED BY IAOA
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* ONTOBRAS 2017 Seminar of research in Ontologies in Brazil
August, 28-30, Brasilia (Brazil)
Website: http://www.ontobras2017.org/en/
Involvement: IAOA funding of 1,000 EUR (EC meeting n.164, Feb 13)

! Early registration ends: July 16, 2017 !

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* RW 2017 13th Reasoning Web Summer School
“Semantic Interoperability on the Web”
July 7-11, Birbeck, University of London (UK)
Website: http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/call-for-13th-reasoning-web-summer-school-rw-2017/

* RuleML+RR 2017 International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning
July 12-15, Birbeck, University of London (UK)
Website: http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/

* ESSLLI 2017 29th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information
July, 17-28, University of Toulouse (France)
Website: https://www.irit.fr/esslli2017/

* DL 2017 30th International Workshop on Description Logics
July, 18-21, Montpellier (France)
Website: https://project.inria.fr/dl2017/

* Bio-Ontologies 2017
July, 24-25, Prague (Czech Republic)
Website: http://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/

* IEEE IRI 2017 IEEE 18th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration
August, 4-6, San Diego (California, USA)
Website: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/iri2017/

* IJCAI 2017 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
August, 19-25, Melbourne (Australia)
Website: https://ijcai-17.org/

* TSD 2017 20th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
August, 27-31, Prague (Czech Republic)
Website: http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2017/

* ENSO V 5th Conference of the European Network on Social Ontology
August 30 September 1, Lund (Sweden)
Website: http://konferens.ht.lu.se/en/enso-v/start2/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS SPONSORED/SUPPORTED BY IAOA
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* Onto.CoM 2017 – 5th International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling @ ER 2017
November 6, Valencia (Spain)

Deadline for submissions:
** Monday, July 03
Website: http://er2017.pros.webs.upv.es/ontocom-2017/

* ONTOBRAS 2017 Seminar of research in Ontologies in Brazil
August, 28-30, Brasilia (Brazil)

Registration deadline:
** early: Sunday, July 16
** standard: Sunday, August 13
Website: http://www.ontobras2017.org/en/

* 2017 IAOA Summer Institute
August, 8-11, University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada)

Registration deadline:
** standard: Monday, July 17
Website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/SummerInstitute2017

* JOWO 2017 Joint Ontology Workshops, Episode III: The Tyrolean Autumn
September 21-23, Bolzano (Italy)

Deadline for submissions:
** Monday, July 17
(recommended deadline for papers,
but each workshop may have its own deadline, check website)
Website: https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2017/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* GCAI 2017 3rd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence
October 18-22, Miami (Florida, USA)

Deadline for submission:
** Friday, June 30 (abstract registration)
** Friday, July 7 (paper submission)
Website: http://easychair.org/smart-program/GCAI2017/

* ROBOT 2017 Third Iberian Robotics Conference [Ontology & KR session]
November, 22-24, Seville (Spain)

Deadline for submission:
** Monday, July 10 (paper submission)
Website: https://grvc.us.es/robot2017/

* GenSW 1st International Workshop on “Generalizing Knowledge: from Machine Learning and Knowledge Representation to the Semantic Web”
November, 14-17, Bari (Italy)

Deadline for submission:
** Friday, July 14 (paper submission)
Website: https://conference.researchbib.com/view/event/70327

* WOMoCoE 2017 2nd International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution
October, 21-25, Vienna (Austria)

Deadline for submission:
** Monday, July 17 (abstract submission)
** Friday, July 21 (paper submission)
Website: http://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/womocoe2017/

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES
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* Executive Council Meeting n.173, July 5, 2017
EC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaorga/council/council.html

* EduTC Meetings – Technical Committee on Education
date for n.22: July 6
EduTC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaTC/TCeducation/TCeducation.php

* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG
Default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 18:30 UTC
yields: n.45 – July 03, 2017, 18:30 UTC
! as Jul 03 is between a Sunday and July 04 (US Independence Day),
please check the mailing list for short-hand notices !
Mailing list archive: https://listserv.ovgu.de/pipermail/iaoa-swao/

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:
http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_44

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STATUS OF FUTURE EVENTS INVOLVING IAOA
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* 2017 IAOA Summer Institute Topic: “Upper Ontologies”
August 8-11, 2017, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/SummerInstitute2017

Status:
** travel grant assignments under consideration
** registration open
http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/events/iaoa-summer-institute-2017/

* ONTOBRAS 2017 – 9th Brazilian Ontology Research Seminar
August 28-30, 2017, Brasilia, Brazil

Website: http://www.ontobras2017.org/en/
Involvement: IAOA funding of 1,000 EUR (EC meeting n.164, Feb 13)

Status:
** acceptance notifications
** registration open
http://www.ontobras2017.org/en/registration/

* JOWO 2017 – 3rd Joint Ontology Workshops
September 21-23, 2017, Bolzano, Italy

Website: https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/JOWO-2017/

Status:
** 2nd calls for contributions are distributed
** first keynotes confirmed (G.Guizzardi, T.Oakley)
** social program item announced (Hyperinstruments Ensemble)
** fees announced and registration open
https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2017/registration/

* VORTE 2017 – 9th International Workshop on Vocabularies,
Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise

October 10, 2017, Quebec City, Canada

Website: http://edoc2017.ca/vorte-2017/
Involvement: IAOA funding of 500 EUR (EC meeting n.164, Feb 13)

Status:
** Submissions under review

* FOIS 2018 – Formal Ontology in Information Systems and
ISAO 2018 – Interdisciplinary School on Ontological Analysis
(it is intended that both events are temporally well-matched)

Dates:
** FOIS: during the week starting September 17, 2018 (TBC)
** ISAO: during the week starting September 10, 2018 (TBC)
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Status:
** IAOA Executive Council reviews proposals to determine PC chairs

Dear IAOA members,

herewith we start a newsletter series 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.

We hope you will find such updates useful and welcome proposals to add events the scope of which covers (elements of) research in ontology. 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 CO-ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* 2017 Ontology Summit (weekly sessions: February 22 – May 10, 2017)
The Launch session will be held on Wednesday, February 22, 2017,
starting at 17:30 UTC (**). We will have presentations from each of
the track champions, outlining their plans for upcoming sessions.

Websites:
** Ontology Summit webpage
http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2017
** Launch Session webpage (Feb 22, 2017)
http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2017_02_22
** local times of Launch Session start time (17:30 UTC)
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170222T1730

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UPCOMING EVENTS SPONSORED/SUPPORTED BY IAOA
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* FOUST 2017 – The Foundational Stance (workshop)
February 27-28, University of Bolzano, Italy

Website: http://foust.inf.unibz.it/
Involvement: IAOA funding of 500 EUR (EC meeting n.164, Feb 13)

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS SPONSORED/SUPPORTED BY IAOA
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* AISB CAOS 2017 – Cognition And OntologieS (2nd workshop)
April 18-21, University of Bath, UK

Deadline for submission: Tuesday, February 28 (all submissions)
Website: http://caos.inf.unibz.it/
Involvement: IAOA funding of 500 EUR (EC meeting n.164, Feb 13)

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* LDK 2017 – Language, Data and Knowledge (1st Conference)
June 19-20, Galway, Ireland

Extended deadline for submission: Thursday, February 23
Website: http://ldk2017.org/

* IDC 2017 – 11th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed
Computing
October 11-13, Belgrade, Serbia

Deadline for submission: Tuesday, April 4 (papers)
Website: http://idc2017.pmf.uns.ac.rs/

* ER 2017 – 36th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
November 6-9, Valencia, Spain

Deadlines for submission:
** Monday, April 10 (abstract submission)
** Monday, April 17 (paper submission)
Website: http://er2017.pros.webs.upv.es/

* DL 2017 – 30th International Workshop on Description Logics
July 18-21, Montpellier, France

Deadlines for submission:
** Friday, April 28 (paper registration)
** Monday, May 8 (paper submission)
Website: https://project.inria.fr/dl2017/

* ISWC 2017 – 16th International Semantic Web Conference
October 21-25, Vienna, Austria

Deadlines for submission:
** Monday, May 8 (abstract submission)
** Monday, May 15 (paper submission)
Website: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/

* SEMANTiCS 2017 – The Linked Data Conference
13th International Conference on Semantic Systems
September 11-14, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Deadlines for submission:
** Wednesday, May 17, 2017 (abstracts)
** Wednesday, May 24, 2017 (papers)
Website: http://2017.semantics.cc

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES
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* Executive Council Meeting n.165, March 06, 2017
EC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaorga/council/council.html

* EduTC Meetings – Technical Committee on Education
Default dates: under redetermination as of March 2017
(was: 1st Wednesday of each month, 14:30 UTC)
date for n.18 (in March 2017): TBD more precisely
EduTC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaTC/TCeducation/TCeducation.php

* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG
Default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 18:30 UTC
yields: n.41 – March 06, 2017, 18:30 UTC
n.42 – April 03, 2017, 18:30 UTC
Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:
http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_40

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STATUS OF FUTURE EVENTS INVOLVING IAOA
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* 2017 IAOA Summer Institute
University of Toronto, Canada

Dates: exact dates TBD in the next EC meeting n.165, Mar 06, 2017, likely in the 1st half of August 2017
Duration: 4 or 5 days
Website: TBA
Status: initial announcement planned for around March 01, 2017

* ONTOBRAS 2017 – 9th Brazilian Ontology Research Seminar
August 28-30, 2017, Brasilia, Brazil

Website: TBA
Involvement: IAOA funding of 1,000 EUR (EC meeting n.164, Feb 13)

* JOWO 2017 – 3rd Joint Ontology Workshops
Dates: targeting at November or December 2017
Status: early planning and coordination phase

* FOIS 2018 – Formal Ontology in Information Systems and
ISAO 2018 – Interdisciplinary School on Ontological Analysis
(it is intended that both events are temporally well-matched)

Dates and location: TBD
Status: IAOA Executive Council reviews proposals to determine
local host(s)/location