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IAOA honorary fellowships

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IAOA has established an award of honorary fellowships in order to recognize distinguished scholars in the field of applied ontology. IAOA Fellows have contributed significantly and in a sustained manner to the field of applied ontology, for example by outstanding scientific achievements, which often goes hand-in-hand with their strong dedication and service to the community.

For more information about the individual Fellows who have been awarded an honorary fellowship, as well as information about the criteria for awarding the fellowship, the selection process, and other relevant details, you can refer to the following page: IAOA Fellows.

 

9th ESAO Special Session@FOIS online 2023

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September 2023 brings a special ESAO session at FOIS online 2023.

When and how to connect

Program

11:00-11:30 EDT / 15:00-15:30 UTC / 17:00-17:30 CEST / 17:00-17:30 SAST (30 min presentations + discussions)

Claudio Masolo (LOA, Italy), Laure Vieu (IRIT, France), Patrick Koopmann (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany)

The notion of property
Abstract: The aim is to discuss on the broad overview on property readings, definitions, and use under the perspectives of different domains (philosophy, linguistics, semantic web, etc).

More information at: https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO#9th_ESAO_Special_Session.40FOIS_online_2023_on_September_19th.2C_2023

IAOA ordinary assembly 2023 — now open

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Dear IAOA members,

The IAOA ordinary assembly is now open, namely the voting period for the approval of the IAOA Financial Report 2022.

Information regarding this ordinary assembly is on the wiki page: https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/IAOA_Assembly_2023_09

The ballot is open from now, September 07, till September 15, 2023 (23:59, AoE = UTC-12).

To cast your vote, you have to:

* log in onto our website,  i.e. at https://iaoa.org/wp-login.php

(Note: if you cannot log in, you might have lost your password –see https://iaoa.org/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword, or you haven’t renewed your membership. Membership registration is blocked during the ballot period.)

* go to the 2022 Financial Report Approval page at https://iaoa.org/members/users/iaoa-vote2023.php

(voting page also accessible from the Utilities page in the Member Area)

* cast your vote by clicking your preference in the voting form and submitting it

Should you have any question, comment or motion proposal, feel free to send a message to info@iaoa.org, or to post a public message to this list.

Please don’t forget to cast your vote, even if you intend to abstain. Every vote is important!

The voting period closes on September 15, 2023 at 23:59, AoE (= UTC-12)

Voting results will be announced on the mailing list on September 18, 2023.

Should you have any doubt or problem, don’t hesitate to contact the IAOA Secretaries, Megan Katsumi and Frank Loebe at secretary@iaoa.org

Thanks for your participation

 

Financial Report 2022

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Dear IAOA members,

Please be advised that the 2022 Financial Report and Auditors’ report are now available for your review on the IAOA website [1,2]. The discussion phase is ongoing, so please share any questions or comments to the mailing list [3]. The ballot, during which you are encouraged to vote on the financial report, will be held from Thursday, September 07 to Friday, September 15.

Thanks and kind regards,

Megan Katsumi

Secretary, IAOA

[1] Financial report: https://iaoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/annual-report-iaoa-ch-20230627_short.pdf

[2] Auditors’ report: https://iaoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/annual-report-iaoa-ch-20221007.pdf

[3] iaoa-member at ovgu.de

IAOA Ordinary Assembly 2023

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Dear IAOA members,

soon a 2023 IAOA Ordinary Assembly [1] will be held online, the main purpose of which is to examine and approve the 2022 IAOA Financial Report (forthcoming).

   –> The most important dates of the assembly are:

       – Thu, Aug 24 – proposals of additional agenda items due

       – Thu, Sept 07 – discussion phase ends

       – Thu, Sept 07 – assembly called to order, ballot starts

       – Fri, Sept 15 – ballot closes

       – TBD within Mon-Wed, Sept 18-20 – public assembly session

                             (during the online part of FOIS 2023)

The assembly session will address general updates on IAOA, recent and upcoming major events as well as the results of the ballot. Please see the assembly page [1] with further details on the overall assembly. Note that the 2022 Financial Report and Auditors’ report are forthcoming by Aug 28, 2023.

  –> All members are welcome to propose additional agenda items

      until Thu, Aug 24, 2023.

We will be grateful for your participation in the ballot as well as for any prior input on the matter during the discussion phase (e.g., writing to [2]). Active involvement in IAOA is valuable to our whole community. Proposals for additional agenda items may be made by replying to this email, or sending a separate message to the mailing list [2].

 

Oliver Kutz

President, IAOA

 

PS: Trying soon to access the Utilities [3] page in the Members’ Area  helps you to ensure access to the voting system during the ballot.

 

[1] https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/IAOA_Assembly_2023_09

[2] iaoa-member at ovgu.de

[3] https://iaoa.org/index.php/member-area/utilities/

 

8th ESAO – Educational Series on Applied Ontology

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The Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1] is open for everyone and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike (no registration needed).

The 8th ESAO webinar will be held as special session on

Monday, June 12, 2023 at 14:00 UTC, for up to 75 min
(regional times: 10:00 EDT / 16:00 CEST / 16:00 SAST [2])
via Zoom (full connection details at the end of this message)

https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/94745672720?pwd=ZjN5bGN6Rlc1UkxBSmQrSHRvVi95QT09

Program & Speaker Info
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10:00-11:15 EDT / 14:00-15:15 UTC / 16:00-17:15 / 16:00-17:15 SAST
(50 min talk + discussion)

Title: The psychology and philosophy of concept combination

Speaker:
James Hampton (City, University of London, UK) [3]

SPECIAL SESSION of ESAO:
– invited talk in connection with the PhD defense of Guendalina Righetti (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
– actually hybrid, onsite in Bozen-Bolzano and online as ESAO webinar
– format: scientific talk

Abstract:
I will review a wider range of research into the problem of how prototype concepts combine. When nouns are placed in a noun-noun compound, (e.g. CRIMINAL LAWYER) different strategies can be used in English to arrive at a semantic interpretation. I will discuss some of the processes involved, and the effects of stress. The second part of my talk will examine how people interpret logical connectives when applied to vague semantic categories such as Vehicle or Fruit. Finally I will present some new data looking at how people judge a conjunction of two vague predicates, as in “These sunglasses are large and dark” where both size and shade of a set of sunglasses are distributed around a vague boundary.

Short Speaker CV:
Educated at Cambridge and University College London. Professor of Psychology, City, University of London since 1977. Visiting appointments at Stanford, Cornell, Chicago (as a Fulbright Fellow), Yale, NYU, Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and Utrecht. Over 100 publications on the psychology and philosophy of concepts.

Series Description
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The IAOA [4] has created ESAO [1], an educational effort directed towards topics of Applied Ontology, primarily established basics and foundations.

The series is inspired by the Interdisciplinary Schools on Applied Ontology (ISAO) [5] (for the next ISAO edition during July 10-14, 2023, please see [6] – ! EARLY REGISTRATION for ISAO 2023 closes on June 11 (EDT) !). 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
————

Members of the Education Technical Committee of IAOA [6] and among those primarily (in alphabetical order):

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

Contact
E-Mail: info@iaoa.org

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

[2] Session time locally and in further places
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20230510T1400

[3] workpage of James Hampton
https://www.city.ac.uk/about/people/academics/james-hampton

[4] IAOA website
http://iaoa.org/

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

[6] ISAO 2023 website
https://fois2023.griis.ca/isao-2023/

[7] Entry page of the IAOA Education Technical Committee
https://iaoa.org/index.php/faq/education-committee/

Connection Details
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Topic: ESAO 8th Session

Topic: 8th ESAO
Time: June 12, 2023 04:00 PM Paris
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FOIS 2024

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14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024)

The Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services group of the University of Twente is proud to host the 14th edition of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS), the flagship conference of the International Association of Ontology and its Applications (IAOA).

When: 08-09 July 2024 (online) and 15-19 July 2024
Where: Enschede, Netherlands)

For all information related to the conference, including satellite events (JOWO workshops included!), calls for papers, and workshops, please refer to the conference’s website: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/

Educational Series on Applied Ontology – Sixth Webinar Session

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The sixth webinar sessions of the ESAO will be held on*Tuesday, 14th, 2023 at 10:00 EST / 15:00 UTC / 16:00 CET / 17:00 SAST* via a Zoom meeting (full connection details at the end of this message):

https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/94831243675?pwd=NXpaalpLalQ5UTd3emNUR2VTNGpRZz09

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

Program
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* 10:00-10:30 EST / 15:00-15:30 UTC / 16:00-16:30 CET / 17:00-17:30 SAST

Title: Using Abduction to Explain Missing Entailments in OWL Ontologies
Patrick Koopmann, TU Dresden

Abstract: With increasing complexity, understanding and debugging ontologies becomes a challenging task without the appropriate tool support. In particular, inferences performed by a reasoner may not always be straight-forward, meaning they may produce entailments that we did not expect, or fail to produce entailments that we did expect. While there are different techniques to explain entailments, this talk focusses on the problem of explaining why something does not follow from the ontology. In particular, we explain how abduction may be used towards solving this issue, and discuss challenges and solutions for performing abduction in practice.

Series Description
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The IAOA [2] has created ESAO, 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
————
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
http://iaoa.org/

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

Connection Details
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Topic: ESAO 6th Session

Time: Feb 14, 2023 04:00 PM Paris

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Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) — upcoming!

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The Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1] is open for everyone and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike.

–> The fifth of its regular webinar sessions will be held on
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 10:00 EST / 15:00 UTC / 16:00 CET / 17:00 SAST via a Zoom meeting (full connection details at the end of this message):

https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/94922889721?pwd=T2ozYlFKMUNreGMwVVlTWTZEdzl4QT09

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

Program
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* 10:00-10:30 EST / 15:00-15:30 UTC / 16:00-16:30 CET / 17:00-17:30 SAST

Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse and CNRS, Toulouse, France

“From Semantic metadata to an ontology-based legal decision support system for data sharing”

Abstract: With the increasing availability of open datasets, data sharing becomes an evidence, in particular in the research domain. The FAIR principles have provided some guidelines to facilitate data sharing. They strongly recommend the use of semantic, machine processable and standard metatada. Nevertheless, these metadata are not sufficient to check if the data sharing is compatible with data sharing regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other regulations about AI-based data analysis, or even the anticipation of inappropriate reuses of data. In the first part of my talk I will illustrate the advantages and limitations of semantic metadata. Then I will expose a research line based on collaborations with lawyers to design a rule-based and ontology-based support system that could guide data producers in their decision to share data according tho regulations and preferences.

Series Description
——————

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
————

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
http://iaoa.org/

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

Connection Details
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Topic: ESAO 5th Session
Time: Dec 14, 2022 04:00 PM Paris

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IAOA extra-ordinary assembly now open

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The IAOA extra-ordinary assembly is now open, namely the voting period for the approval of the IAOA Financial Report 2021.

Information regarding this extra-ordinary assembly is on the wiki page: https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/IAOA_Assembly_2022_11

The ballot is open from now, November 30, till December 06, 2022 (23:59, AoE = UTC-12).

To cast your vote, you have to:

* log in onto our website,  i.e. at https://iaoa.org/wp-login.php
(Note: if you cannot log in, you might have lost your password –see https://iaoa.org/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword, or you haven’t renewed your membership. Membership registration is blocked during the ballot period.)

* go to the 2022 Financial Report Approval page at https://iaoa.org/members/users/iaoa-vote2022a.php
(voting page also accessible from the Utilities page in the Member Area)

* cast your vote by clicking your preference in the voting form and submitting it

Should you have any question, comment or motion proposal, feel free to send a message to info@iaoa.org, or to post a public message to this list.

Please don’t forget to cast your vote, even if you intend to abstain. Every vote is important!
The voting period closes on December 6, 2022 at 23:59, AoE (= UTC-12)

Voting results will be announced on the mailing list on December 09, 2022.

Should you have any doubt or problem, don’t hesitate to contact the IAOA Secretaries, Megan Katsumi and Frank Loebe at secretary@iaoa.org

Thanks for your participation

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