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15th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil – ONTOBRAS 2022

22 – 25 November 2022 – 100% Online

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Dear IAOA members,

Herewith you receive the October 2022 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 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

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[2] calendar: “IAOA Check Deadlines”

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[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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EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO)

Website: https://iaoa.org/index.php/2022/10/11/educational-series-on-applied-ontology-esao-fourth-webinar/

When: October 18, 2022 at 10:00-10:30 EDT / 14:00-14:30 UTC / 16:00-16:30 CEST/SAST

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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* 6th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry (EDI40 2022)
March 15-17, 2023, Leuven, Belgium

Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-23/

Submission deadline:
*** October 30, 2022

* 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Big Data (KGBigdata 2022)
@IEEE Big Data 2022
Dec. 17, 2022 (online workshop)

Website: https://cci.drexel.edu/kgbigdata/2022/

Submission deadline:
*** November 1, 2022

* 11th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST’23)
April 4-6, 2023, Pisa, Italy

Website: http://worldcist.org/

Submission deadline:
*** December 6, 2022

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* 41st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2022)
October 17-20, 2022, Hyderabad, India (online)

Website: https://er2022web.github.io/ER2022/

* 21st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2022)
October 23-27, 2022, Hangzhou, China (online)

Website: https://iswc2022.semanticweb.org/

* 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Graphs (IJCKG-2022)
in cooperation with ISWC
October 27-29, 2022, Hangzhou, China(online)

Website: https://www.ijckg.org/

* 29th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2022)
November 7-9, 2022 (online)

Website: https://time2022.time-symposium.org/

* 15th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil (ONTOBRAS 2022)
November 22-25, 2022 (online)

Website: https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras/en/15th-seminar-on-ontology-research-in-brazil-ontobras-2022-2/

* 21st International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2022)
November 28 – December 2, 2022, Udine, Italy (several events in context of AIxIA 2022)

Website: https://aixia2022.uniud.it/

* 24th International Conference on Information Integration and Web Intelligence (iiWAS2022)
November 28 – December 30, 2022 (online)

Website: https://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2022/

* IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graph (ICKG-2022)
November 30 – December 1, 2022, Orlando, Florida, USA

Website: https://ickg2022.zhonghuapu.com/

* IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2022)
December 17 – 20, 2022, Osaka, Japan

Website: http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2022/

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES

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* Executive Council (EC) Meeting

EC Webpage:

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

On the morning of the 15th of August 2022, Jönköping University opened the doors to for the first time in Sweden host The Joint Ontology Workshops – Episode VIII: The Svear Summer of Ontology. In the five days that followed, scientists and practitioners interested in ontology gathered to share their latest research, discuss fundamental problems and network under the Swedish summer sun. 

Taking place as a stand-alone event, JOWO’22 was chosen to be held predominantly on-site to, once again, try to reduce the distance between scientists and research disciplines after the covid-pandemic had made everything feel so far away. However, since “hybrid is the new black”, the event live-streamed the full scientific content to offer remote participants a chance to join the fun from the distance of their choosing. In the end, the combination resulted in just over 50 participants joining on-site and some 70 participants came and went on the virtual platform.

During the full event week (15-19th of August), JOWO’22 ran two parallel sessions to provide enough time for the contributing workshops and tutorials to run their individual programs. The scientific program consisted of seven workshops, three tutorials, three shared keynotes and one panel debate, all carefully puzzled into a schedule that, to the best of our ability, ensured that the participants could participate in as many of workshops/tutorials of their choosing.

The list of workshops consisted of a few JOWO classics like the sixth editions of “CAOS VI: Cognition And OntologieS IV” and ”FOUST VI: Foundational Ontology,” as well as ”IFOW III: The Integrated Food Ontology Workshop” and ”RobOntics III: Ontologies for Autonomous Robotics” which celebrated their third editions at JOWO’22. More impressive still, was to see that the impact of the ontology community is growing in different application areas as demonstrated in how several new ontology workshops were present in this year’s edition. Covering ever-relevant topics such as environmental concern, knowledge diversity and social services the newcomings were: “Ensusto: Energy, Materials and Sustainability Ontology Workshop,” “FMKD: First Workshop on Formal Models of Knowledge Diversity” and “OSS: Ontologies for Social Services.” 

The participants were also offered the chance to further extend their ontology-focused skillset by participating in three tutorials of different scientific characters. First, He Tan held a semantic web tutorial on “Knowledge Graphs.” Then Tiago Prince Sales, Joao Paolo A. Almeida and Giancarlo Guizzardi organised a tutorial on how to “Implement Better Ontologies with gUFO.” Finally, the intersection between ontological modelling and linguistic research was investigated in the tutorial “Generating Text from Ontologies in Multiple Languages” organised by Maria Keet and Zola Mahlaza.

The scientific highlights of the event were, however, the presentations of the three shared keynotes. First up was Janna Hastings (University of Zurich/University of St. Gallen) who promoted ontology research in the setting of recent computer technologies in her talk “Ontologies in the age of deep learning.” This was followed by a talk by Peter Gärdenfors (University of Lund) who presented selected parts of his paradigm-shifting research on “Conceptual spaces, event structure and cognitive ontology.” The final keynote speaker, invited as part of the FMKD workshop, was Sebastian Rudolph (Technical University Dresden) who took the opportunity to build on Gärdenfors’ research and presented a more formal theory of knowledge representation in his talk “The Matrix Has You – Toward Compositional Conceptual Spaces.”

Another scientific highlight was the panel experiment “A Foustian Struggle” organised as part of the FOUST VI workshop. Here some of the founders of the seven (perhaps) most famous foundational ontologies were positioned against one another in a battle of how best to model particular scenarios. It was a fast-pasted intellectual battle that left both the audience and the participants wanting more. 

Yet, scientific excellence is nothing without an opportunity to promote the conducted research and to ground it into meaningful connections. Thus, to take advantage of the on-site conference setting, JOWO’22 consisted of a rich social program that encouraged communication between both newcomers and returning members. During the conference’s cookie-overflowing coffee breaks (in Sweden it is considered rude to offer less than 7 types of cookies) the participants could get to know one another by, for instance, playing “Networking BINGO.” The conference extracurricular activities on the social program consisted of a conference reception with Swedish “skumpa och smörgåstårta,” a BBQ on the beach, a half day along Vättern that included not only a nature hike but a trip to the twelfth-century industry village Röttle and the Swedish candy-capital Gränna. However, the social highlight was without a doubt the conference dinner that set in between the medieval armours at the old country inn Gyllene Uttern provided the participants with the extraordinary panorama of the rainbow-coloured sunset as day turned into night over the second largest lake in Sweden. 

The success of the event was the direct result of the hard work of everyone involved. As general chairs, we would like to say a warm thank you to the JOWO’22 organisation, all the workshop and tutorial chairs, the members of the program committees, the contributing authors and presenters, as well as to the audience. We hope that you all learned something new and that you had as much fun as we did!

The JOWO’22 chairs,

 Maria M. Hedblom and He Tan

Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1]

Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at
10:00 EDT / 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST/SAST via a Zoom meeting:

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No registration needed; please find full connection details at the end of this message.

Program
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* 10:00-10:30 EDT / 14:00-14:30 UTC / 16:00-16:30 CEST/SAST

Torsten Hahmann
School of Computing and Information Science, University of Maine

“Where am I? Spatial knowledge in ontologies”

Abstract: Many of the things we describe in ontologies are objects or processes located in physical space. Examples of questions with a location or other spatial component include: Where is the start of the trail? What is the address I need to go to? Where again did I put my keys? How large is the property? Where is the conference happening? Where did you see the whale? To capture such spatial information, ontologies provide a variety of mechanisms that range from vague, qualitative descriptions (e.g. “after the bridge”, “on my desk”, “in the Gulf of Maine”), to more precise locations (“947 Broadway”, “Sherbrooke (QC)”) or even quantitative description (“1km East from here”, “400 sq m”). This talk will take the listener through different ways that are available to describe space and locations that range from concepts provided by top-level ontologies to more specialized spatial and geospatial ontologies for the Semantic Web.

* 10:30-11:00 EDT / 14:30-15:00 UTC / 16:30-17:00 CEST/SAST

Janna Hastings
School of Medicine, University of St. Gallen, and the Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, University of Zurich

“The role of ontologies in data science in support of discovery research”

Abstract: Data science encompasses a wide range of methods which aim to interpret and extract meaning, and new knowledge, from data. For data-driven discovery research, the quality and suitability of the statistical approaches are usually the focus of efforts to derive new knowledge, while ontologies are assumed to be relevant mainly for purposes of standardisation and exchange of existing knowledge, i.e. subsequent to the discovery process. In this presentation, I will discuss the role of ontologies and other pre-existing formal representations of knowledge in the science of making new discoveries from data, why this role is often overlooked, and how this might change as the science of the future becomes better integrated between humans and machines. I will illustrate with some examples taken from different domains: metabolism and behaviour.

Series Description
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The IAOA [2] has created ESAO [1], a new educational effort directed towards topics of Applied Ontology, primarily established basics and foundations.

The series is inspired by the Interdisciplinary Schools on Applied Ontology (ISAO) [3] (whose next edition will be held in 2023). ESAO is complementary in format and its overall approach. The goal is to provide a combination of an archive of educational material (e.g., short video lectures) and a series of webinars for presenting and discussing that material.

Organization
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Members of the Education Technical Committee of IAOA [2] and among those primarily (in alphabetical order):

* Lucía Gómez Álvarez
* Frank Loebe
* Sandra Lovrenčić
* Cassia Trojahn (Chair)
* Laure Vieu

Contact
E-Mail: info@iaoa.org

[1] Educational Series on Applied Ontology
https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO

[2] IAOA website
https://iaoa.org/

[3] ISAO History page
https://iaoa.org/index.php/isao-history/

Connection Details
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Topic: 3rd ESAO session
Time: Sep 20, 2022 04:00 PM Paris

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