July 2017 Newsletter

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”
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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 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

May 2017 Newsletter

Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the third 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 deadlines prior to such events. They may also include short reports of interesting past events, for example, by IAOA members who attended them. The 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 to the overall membership [4].

DISCLAIMER: Please note that, notwithstanding our efforts to provide information that is correct and up-to-date, by offering these services IAOA assumes no liability and no warranty for the correctness, accuracy, completeness nor reliability of the shared information. In order to rely on the information, please reconfirm it via specific sources, e.g., of events.

Sincerely,

IAOA Executive Council

[1] calendar: “IAOA Check Events”

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[3] info@iaoa.org

[4] iaoa-member@ovgu.de

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* ESWC 2017 – Extended Semantic Web Conference

May 28 – June 1, Portoroz, Slovenia

Website: http://2017.eswc-conferences.org/

* SBSI 2017 – The Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems

June 58, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Website: http://www.sbc.org.br/sbsi2017

* TOTh 2017 – The annual conference on Terminology & Ontology:
Theory and Applications

June 8-9, University of Savoie, Chambry, France

Website: http://www.porphyre.org/toth

* ICFCA 2017 – 14th International Conference on
Formal Concept Analysis

June 12-16, Rennes, France

Website: https://icfca2017.irisa.fr/

* MIREL 2017 – Workshop on MIning and REasoning with Legal texts

June 16, London, UK

Website: http://www.mirelproject.eu/MIRELws/

* LDK 2017 – 1st International Conference on
Language, Data and Knowledge

June 1920, Galway, Ireland

Website: http://www.ldk2017.org/

* FQAS 2017 – 12th International Conference on
Flexible Query Answering Systems

June 2123, London, UK

Website: http://fqas-2017.org/

* WASPIQ 2017 – Workshop on ASP technologIes for
Querying large scale multisource heterogeneous web information

June 2730, Arras, France

Website: http://waspiq2017.lsis.org

* RW 2017 – 13th Reasoning Web Summer School
“Semantic Interoperability on the Web”

July 7-11, Birbeck, University of London, UK

Website: https://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: https://2017.ruleml-rr.org/

* ESSLLI 2017 – 29th European Summer School in
Logic, Language, and Information

July 17-28, 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/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* OntoBras 2017 – 9th Brazilian Ontology Research Seminar
August 28-30, 2017, Brasilia, Brazil

** Friday, May 19 (papers, extended)

Website: http://www.ontobras2017.org/en/

* VORTE 2017 – 9th International Workshop on
Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise
October 10, 2017, Quebec-City, Canada

** Sunday, May 21 (papers, extended)

Website: http://edoc2017.ca/vorte-2017/

* ICBO 2017 – 8th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology
September 1315, Newcastle, UK

** Friday, June 2 (papers and posters)

Website: http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/icbo17/

* 2017 IAOA Summer Institute on Upper Ontologies
August 8-11, Toronto, Canada

** Thursday, June 15 (student grant applications)

* OntoCoM 2017 – 5th International Workshop on
Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling

** Monday, July 3 (papers)

Website: http://er2017.pros.webs.upv.es/ontocom-2017/

* JOWO 2017 – Joint Ontology Workshops
“The Tyrolean Autumn”

** Monday, July 17 (workshop submissions)
!! recommended by JOWO, workshops may set other dates !!

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

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA, ITS SIGS AND COMMITTEES
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* Executive Council Meetings

Default dates: bi-weekly on Wednesday, 14:00 UTC

Meeting n.170 (confirmed) : May 24, 2017, 14:00 UTC

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

* EduTC Meetings – Technical Committee on Education

Default dates: 1st Thursday of each month, 12:30 UTC

Meeting n.21 (confirmed) : June 08, 2017, 12:30 UTC

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, 20:30 UTC

next meetings:
** n.44 – June 05, 2017, 20:30 UTC (to be confirmed)
** n.45 July 03, 2017, 20:30 UTC (to be confirmed)

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:
http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_43

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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: 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)

* JOWO 2017 – 3rd Joint Ontology Workshops

September 21-23, 2017, Bolzano, Italy

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

Status:
** accepted workshops announced
** 1st calls for contributions are distributed

* 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)

* 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)

Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Dates: TBD

February 2017 Newsletter

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”
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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 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

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