FOIS 2025 Save the date!

Save the date for FOIS 2025!

The University of Catania, Italy, is proud to host the 15th 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).

Important dates:

  • Conference and workshops: September 8-12, 2025.
  • Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO): September 15-19, 2025.

Stay tuned with the website of the event for more information on the upcoming Call for Papers!

October 2024 Newsletter

Dear IAOA members,

Below you find the news and announcements of our October 2024 newsletter.

If you have information to share with the IAOA’s community, e.g., scientific events that you wish to advertise, please do not hesitate to contact us (calendars@iaoa.org).

Best,

The Executive Council of the IAOA

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FOIS 2025
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15th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS), University of Catania, Italy

Save the dates:

* Conference and workshops: September 8-12, 2025.

* Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO): September 15-19, 2025.

Stay tuned for updates: https://www.dmi.unict.it/fois2025/

 

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Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO)
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* November 12th, 2024

Speakers:

** Sandra Lovrencic, University of Zagreb Faculty of organization and informatics. Title of the talk: Concepts.

** Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France. Title of the talk: Ontology evolution.

Tuesday November 12th, 2024 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST / 16:00 SAST (more local times)
Duration: 90 minutes
Video conference (via Zoom): https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/92895546685?pwd=DQD7Wzf3ZJw02LJ2hHmrVDwdN474PZ.1

* December 17th, 2024

Speakers:

** Sergio De Cesare, University of Westminster, Uk. Title of the talk: Ontology-driven conceptual modelling.

** Maria Keet, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Title of the talk: Competency questions.

Tuesday December 17th, 2024 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST / 16:00 SAST (more local times)
Duration: 90 minutes
Video conference (via Zoom): https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/92895546685?pwd=DQD7Wzf3ZJw02LJ2hHmrVDwdN474PZ.1

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* 17th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil (ONTOBRAS 2024)
October 7-10, 2024, Vitória, Brazil

Website: https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras

* 27th European Conference on AI (ECAI 2024)
October 19-24, 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Website: https://www.ecai2024.eu/

Several workshops at ECAI 2024: https://www.ecai2024.eu/programme/workshops

* Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense, and Security Conference(STIDS 2024)
October 22-24, 2024, Woodbridge, VA

Website: https://kadsci.com/stids2024/

* ER 2024
October 28-31, 2024, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Website: https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/news-events/events/er2024/

* 4th International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH 2024)
October 30-31, 2024, Tours, France

Website: https://swodch2024.sciencesconf.org/

* Workshops at the 21st International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2024)
November 2-8, 2024, Hanoi, Vietnam

Several workshops at KR 2024: https://kr.org/KR2024/workshops_tutorials.php

* 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024)
November 11-15, 2024, Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland, United States

Website: https://iswc2024.semanticweb.org/event/3715c6fc-e2d7-47eb-8c01-5fe4ac589a52/summary

* 23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2024)
November 25–28, 2024, Bolzano, Italy

Website: https://aixia2024.events.unibz.it/

* 24th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2024)
November 26-28, 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Website: https://event.cwi.nl/ekaw2024/cfp.html

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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* Several workshops in the context of 23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, November 25–28, 2024, Bolzano, Italy

Check website for workshops’ deadline extensions:

Workshops

* International Workshop on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems and
Strategic Reasoning, 11th December 2024, online, free participation

Deadline:
*** November 10th, 2024 (paper submission)
Website: https://conferences-website.github.io/lamassr24/

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SPECIAL ISSUES
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* Special Issue Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, and Knowledge Graphs in the Semantic Web Journal

Website: https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-issue-large-language-models-generative-ai-and-knowledge-graphs
Submission deadline:
*** March 31, 2025

* Special Issue on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage in the Semantic Web Journal

Website: https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-issue-semantic-web-and-ontology-design-cultural-heritage
Submission deadline:
*** April 30, 2025

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ESAO seminars

Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) — upcoming seminars:
(for all information relative to ESAO, click on the link above)

 

* November 12th, 2024

Speakers:

** Sandra Lovrencic, University of Zagreb Faculty of organization and informatics. Title of the talk: Concepts.

** Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France. Title of the talk: Ontology evolution.

When:

Tuesday November 12th, 2024 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST / 16:00 SAST (more local times)
Duration: 90 minutes
Video conference (via Zoom): https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/92895546685?pwd=DQD7Wzf3ZJw02LJ2hHmrVDwdN474PZ.1

 

* December 17th, 2024

Speakers:

** Sergio De Cesare, University of Westminster, Uk. Title of the talk: Ontology-driven conceptual modelling.

** Maria Keet, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Title of the talk: Competency questions.

When:

Tuesday December 17th, 2024 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST / 16:00 SAST (more local times)
Duration: 90 minutes
Video conference (via Zoom): https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/92895546685?pwd=DQD7Wzf3ZJw02LJ2hHmrVDwdN474PZ.1

September 2024 Newsletter

Dear IAOA members,

Below you find the news and announcements of our September 2024 newsletter.

If you have information to share with the IAOA’s community, e.g.,
scientific events that you wish to advertise, please do not hesitate to
contact us (calendars@iaoa.org).

Best,

The Executive Council of the IAOA

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Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO)
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https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO#Educational_Series_on_Applied_Ontology_.28ESAO.29

* October 1st, 2024

Speakers:

** Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Title of the talk:tba.

** Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden. Title of the talk: Cognitive foundations for KR

Tuesday October 1st, 2024 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST / 16:00 SAST (more local times)
Duration: 90 minutes
Video conference (via Zoom): https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/92895546685?pwd=DQD7Wzf3ZJw02LJ2hHmrVDwdN474PZ.1

* November 12th, 2024

Speakers:

** Sandra Lovrencic, University of Zagreb Faculty of organization and informatics. Title of the talk: Concepts.

** Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France. Title of the talk: Ontology evolution.

Tuesday November 12th, 2024 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST / 16:00 SAST (more local times)
Duration: 90 minutes
Video conference (via Zoom): https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/92895546685?pwd=DQD7Wzf3ZJw02LJ2hHmrVDwdN474PZ.1

* December 17th, 2024

Speakers:

** Sergio De Cesare, University of Westminster, Uk. Title of the talk: Ontology-driven conceptual modelling.

** Maria Keet, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Title of the talk: Competency questions.

Tuesday December 17th, 2024 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST / 16:00 SAST (more local times)
Duration: 90 minutes
Video conference (via Zoom): https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/92895546685?pwd=DQD7Wzf3ZJw02LJ2hHmrVDwdN474PZ.1

 

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* 16h Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2024)
September 17-20, Québec City, Canada

Website: https://cosit.ca/

* 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems (Semantics 2024)
September 17-19, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Website: https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/

* The 10th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2024)
September 18-20, 2024, Fern Universität, Hagen, Germany

Website: http://comma2024.krportal.org/index.html

* 47th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2024)
September 25-27, 2024, JMU Würzburg, Germany

Website: https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ki24/

Several workshops at f KI 2024: https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ki24/program/workshops-tutorials/

* 17th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil (ONTOBRAS 2024)
October 7-10, 2024, Vitória, Brazil

Website: https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras

* 27th European Conference on AI (ECAI 2024)
October 19-24, 2024, Santiago de Campostela, Spain

Website: https://www.ecai2024.eu/

Several workshops at ECAI 2024: https://www.ecai2024.eu/programme/workshops

* ER 2024
October 28-31, 2024, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Website: https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/news-events/events/er2024/

* 4th International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH 2024)
October 30-31, 2024, Tours, France

Website: https://swodch2024.sciencesconf.org/

* Workshops at the 21st International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2024)
November 2-8, 2024, Hanoi, Vietnam

Several workshops at KR 2024: https://kr.org/KR2024/workshops_tutorials.php

* 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024)
November 11-15, 2024, Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland, United States

Website: https://iswc2024.semanticweb.org/event/3715c6fc-e2d7-47eb-8c01-5fe4ac589a52/summary

* 23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2024)
November 25–28, 2024, Bolzano, Italy

Website: https://aixia2024.events.unibz.it/

* 24th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2024)
November 26-28, 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Website: https://event.cwi.nl/ekaw2024/cfp.html

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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* Several workshops in the context of 23rd International Conference of the
Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, November 25–28, 2024, Bolzano, Italy

See website for workshops’ deadlines: https://aixia2024.events.unibz.it/workshops/

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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[2] calendar: “IAOA Check Deadlines” https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=os3b7er3ad4ela965ggjoa7u80@group.calendar.google.com

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[5] info@iaoa.org

[6] iaoa-member@ovgu.de

[7] calendars@iaoa.org

June 2024 newsletter

Dear IAOA members,

Below you find the news and announcements of our June 2024 newsletter.

If you have information to share with the IAOA’s community, e.g.,
scientific events that you wish to advertise, please do not hesitate to
contact us (calendars@iaoa.org).

Best,

The Executive Council of the IAOA

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EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* FOIS 2024 – 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in
Information Systems

8-9 July 2024 (online) and 15-19 July 2024, Enschede, Netherlands

Website: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/

* Workshops at JOWO 2024:

*** Cognition And OntologieS (CAOS8)

About

*** Energy, Materials and Sustainability Ontology (Emsusto) Workshop 2024

https://emsusto.github.io/jowo2024/

*** FAIR Principles for Ontologies and Medatata in Knowledge Management (FOAM)

https://onto4fair.github.io/foam/

*** 13th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry(FOMI)

https://appliedontolab.github.io/fomi2024/

*** Workshop on Foundational Ontology (FOUST VIII)

Home

*** Integrated Food Ontology Workshop (IFOW 2024)

IFOW 2024 Integrated Food Ontology Workshop, Enschede, Netherlands

*** 3rd International Workshop KM4LAW – Knowledge Management and Process Mining for Law (KM4LAW)

*** Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs for Industry (OK4I)

https://www.iai.kit.edu/ok4i/

*** 10th International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling (OntoCom X)

https://ontocomworkshops.github.io/OntoCom2024/

*** Playing with Meanings (PwM)

https://humanfactorsinsemantics.net/JOWO2024.html

*** 1st International Workshop on Modeling for Cybersecurity (Semantic Shields I)

https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/semantic-shields/

*** Semantic Technologies for Data Management (ST4DM)

https://sites.google.com/diag.uniroma1.it/st4dm/

*** Workshop on the Convergence of Large Language Models and Ontologies

https://johnbeve.github.io/LLMO-FOIS/

*** ContemporarY Ontologies for Digital Archives (YODA)

https://geist.re/yoda:start

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SPECIAL ISSUES
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* Special Issue for JOWO’s 10th Anniversary, Applied Ontology

This year JOWO celebrates its 10th anniversary and to honour this milestone, we invite authors of workshop papers presented in these 10 editions to submit to this special issue follow-ups of their original contributions.

Website: https://www.iospress.com/news/call-for-papers-a-special-issue-for-applied-ontologys-jowo-10th-anniversary

Paper proposal submission deadline:
*** July 31, 2024

(Paper submission deadline:
*** November 29, 2024)

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC2024)
June 17-21, 2024, Jönköping, Sweden

Website: https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc24/

* 11th Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems
June 17-19, 2024, Palermo, Italy

Website: http://www.cogsys.org/conference/2024/

* 37th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2024)
June 18-21, 2024, Bergen, Norway

Website: https://dl2024.w.uib.no/

* Events. New Work on Their Ontology and Semantics
June 18-19, 2024, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France

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

* International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO)
July 17-19, 2024, Enschede, Netherlands

Website: https://icbo-conference.github.io/icbo2024/

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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* 24th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2024)
November 26-28, 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Website: https://event.cwi.nl/ekaw2024/cfp.html

Deadline:
*** July 1, 2024 (abstract submission)
*** July 5, 2024 (paper submission)

* 10th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning (FCR-2024)
September 24, 2024 (tentative), Würzburg, Germany

Website: https://fcr.krportal.org/2024/

Deadline:
*** July 01, 2024

* Workshops at the 21st International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR)
November 2 – 8, 2024, Hanoi, Vietnam

Full list of workshops: https://kr.org/KR2024/workshops_tutorials.php

** Fifth Workshop on Explainable Logic-Based Knowledge Representation (XLoKR 2024): https://sites.google.com/view/xlokr2024?pli=1

** Joint Workshop on Knowledge Diversity and Cognitive Aspects of KR (KoDis/CAKR 2024): https://kodis-cakr24.krportal.org

Deadline:
*** July 17, 2024

* Workshops at the 43rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2024)
October 28 – 31, 2024, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Full list of workshops: https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/news-events/events/er2024/workshops.cfm

** The 5th International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Life Sciences (CMLS 2024): https://deib-geco.github.io/cmls2024/

** 3rd International Workshop on Digital JUStice, digital law and conceptual MODeling (JUSMOD 2024): https://jusmod2024.github.io/

** II Workshop on Conceptual Modeling, Semantic Technologies and Data platforms for Smart Food Systems (SmartFood 2024): https://sites.google.com/view/smartfoodworkshop/smartfood-2024

** The First International workshop on AI-Driven Modeling and Management of Data (AIMM 2024): https://sites.google.com/view/aimm24

Deadline:
*** July 27, 2024

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May 2025 Newsletter

Dear IAOA members,

Below you find the news and announcements of our May 2024 newsletter.

If you have information to share with the IAOA’s community, e.g., scientific events that you wish to advertise, please do not hesitate to contact us (calendars@iaoa.org).

Best,

The Executive Council of the IAOA

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EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* FOIS 2024 – 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems

8-9 July 2024 (online) and 15-19 July 2024, Enschede, Netherlands

Website: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/

* Workshops at JOWO 2024:

*** Cognition And OntologieS (CAOS8)

About

*** Energy, Materials and Sustainability Ontology (Emsusto) Workshop 2024

https://emsusto.github.io/jowo2024/

*** FAIR Principles for Ontologies and Medatata in Knowledge Management (FOAM)

https://onto4fair.github.io/foam/

*** 13th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry (FOMI)

https://appliedontolab.github.io/fomi2024/

*** Workshop on Foundational Ontology (FOUST VIII)

Home

*** Integrated Food Ontology Workshop (IFOW 2024)

IFOW 2024 Integrated Food Ontology Workshop, Enschede, Netherlands

*** 3rd International Workshop KM4LAW – Knowledge Management and Process Mining for Law (KM4LAW)

*** Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs for Industry (OK4I)

https://www.iai.kit.edu/ok4i/

*** 10th International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling (OntoCom X)

https://ontocomworkshops.github.io/OntoCom2024/

*** Playing with Meanings (PwM)

https://humanfactorsinsemantics.net/JOWO2024.html

*** 1st International Workshop on Modeling for Cybersecurity (Semantic Shields I)

https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/semantic-shields/

*** Semantic Technologies for Data Management (ST4DM)

https://sites.google.com/diag.uniroma1.it/st4dm/

*** Workshop on the Convergence of Large Language Models and Ontologies

https://johnbeve.github.io/LLMO-FOIS/

*** ContemporarY Ontologies for Digital Archives (YODA)

https://geist.re/yoda:start

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ONTOLOGY SUMMIT 2024
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Topic: Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Techniques for and with Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs

Website: https://ontologforum.com/index.php/OntologySummit2024

The Ontology Summit is an annual series of events that involves the ontology community and communities related to each year’s theme chosen for the summit. The Ontology Summit was started by Ontolog and NIST, and the program has been co-organized by Ontolog and NIST along with the co-sponsorship of other organizations that are supportive of the Summit goals and objectives.

As part of Ontolog’s general advocacy to bring ontology science and related engineering into the mainstream, we endeavor to facilitate discussion and knowledge sharing amongst stakeholders and interested parties relevant to the use of ontologies. The results will be synthesized and summarized in the form of the Ontology Summit 2024 Communiqué, with expanded supporting material provided on the web and in journal articles.

Schedule:

** 15 May 2024 Second Synthesis
** 22 May 2024 Communiqué

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* 9th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Resources, Applications, Best Practice (LDL 2024)
May 25, 2024, Torino, Italy. Co-located with LREC 2024

Website: https://ldl2024.linguistic-lod.org/

* Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC),
May 26 – 30, 2024, Heraklion, Greece

Website: https://2024.eswc-conferences.org/

* 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAISE 2024)
June 3-7, 2024, Limassol, Cyprus

Website: https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/

* 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC2024)
June 17-21, 2024, Jönköping, Sweden

Website: https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc24/

* 11th Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems
June 17-19, 2024, Palermo, Italy

Website: http://www.cogsys.org/conference/2024/

* 37th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2024)
June 18-21, 2024, Bergen, Norway

Website: https://dl2024.w.uib.no/

* Events. New Work on Their Ontology and Semantics
June 18-19, 2024, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France

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

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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* 43rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2024) “Conceptual Modeling, AI, and Beyond”
October 28-31, 2024, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Website: https://sei.cmu.edu/go/er2024

Deadlines:

*** 19 May 2024 (full paper abstracts submission)
*** 26 May 2024 (full paper submission)

* 4th International Workshop on Data meets Applied Ontologies in Explainable AI (DAO-XAI)
@27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024)
October 19-20 (tbc), 2024, Santiago de Campostela, ES

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/daoxai2024

Deadline:
*** May 30, 2024

* 17th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil – ONTOBRAS 2024
October 7-10, 2024, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil

Website: https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras/en/17th-seminar-on-ontology-research-in-brazil-ontobras-2024/

Deadline:
*** June 3, 2024

* 23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence 2024 (AIxIA)
November 25-28, 2024, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Website: https://aixia2024.events.unibz.it/

Deadline:
*** June 7, 2024 (abstract submission)
*** June 14, 2024 (paper submission)

* 24th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2024)
November 26-28, 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Website: https://event.cwi.nl/ekaw2024/cfp.html

Deadline:
*** July 1, 2024 (abstract submission)
*** July 5, 2024 (paper submission)

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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[5] info@iaoa.org
[6] iaoa-member@ovgu.de
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April 2024 newsletter

Dear IAOA members,

Below you find the news and announcements of our April 2024 newsletter.

If you have information to share with the IAOA’s community, e.g., scientific events that you wish to advertise, please do not hesitate to contact us (calendars@iaoa.org).

Best,

The Executive Council of the IAOA

 

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EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA

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* FOIS 2024 – 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems

8-9 July 2024 (online) and 15-19 July 2024, Enschede, Netherlands

Website: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/

 

Several calls within FOIS:

*** 17 April 2024 (Early Career Symposium)

*** 17 April 2024 (Journal-First Track)

*** 17 April 2024 (Ontology Showcase and Ontology Demonstration)

*** 29 April 2024 (Research and Industrial Project Exhibition)

 

* Workshops at JOWO 2024:

 

*** Cognition And OntologieS (CAOS8)

https://caos.inf.unibz.it/

*** Energy, Materials and Sustainability Ontology (Emsusto) Workshop 2024

https://emsusto.github.io/jowo2024/

*** FAIR Principles for Ontologies and Medatata in Knowledge Management (FOAM)

https://onto4fair.github.io/foam/

*** 13th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry (FOMI)

https://appliedontolab.github.io/fomi2024/

*** Workshop on Foundational Ontology (FOUST VIII)

https://foust.inf.unibz.it/

*** Integrated Food Ontology Workshop (IFOW 2024)

https://foodon.org/ifow-2024-workshop/

*** 3rd International Workshop KM4LAW – Knowledge Management and Process Mining for Law (KM4LAW)

https://km4law.di.unito.it/

*** Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs for Industry (OK4I)

https://www.iai.kit.edu/ok4i/

*** 10th International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling (OntoCom X)

https://ontocomworkshops.github.io/OntoCom2024/

*** Playing with Meanings (PwM)

https://humanfactorsinsemantics.net/JOWO2024.html

***  1st International Workshop on Modeling for Cybersecurity (Semantic Shields I)

https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/semantic-shields/

*** Semantic Technologies for Data Management (ST4DM)

https://sites.google.com/diag.uniroma1.it/st4dm/

*** Workshop on the Convergence of Large Language Models and Ontologies

https://johnbeve.github.io/LLMO-FOIS/

*** ContemporarY Ontologies for Digital Archives (YODA)

https://geist.re/yoda:start

Paper submission deadlines for workshops at JOWO 2024 have been extended. Check on the workshop pages for updates!

 

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ONTOLOGY SUMMIT 2024

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Topic: Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Techniques for and with Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs

Website: https://ontologforum.com/index.php/OntologySummit2024

The Ontology Summit is an annual series of events that involves the ontology community and communities related to each year’s theme chosen for the summit. The Ontology Summit was started by Ontolog and NIST, and the program has been co-organized by Ontolog and NIST along with the co-sponsorship of other organizations that are supportive of the Summit goals and objectives.

As part of Ontolog’s general advocacy to bring ontology science and related engineering into the mainstream, we endeavor to facilitate discussion and knowledge sharing amongst stakeholders and interested parties relevant to the use of ontologies. The results will be synthesized and summarized in the form of the Ontology Summit 2024 Communiqué, with expanded supporting material provided on the web and in journal articles.

Schedule:

** 17 April 2024 Track C Applications Session 2 Manufacturing

** 24 April 2024 Track C Applications Session 3 Healthcare

** 1 May 2024 Track D Session 1 Risk Panel

** 8 May 2024 Track D Session 2 Ethics Panel

** 15 May 2024 Second Synthesis

** 22 May 2024 Communiqué

 

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2024)

May 6 – 10, 2024, Auckland, New Zealand

Website: https://www.aamas2024-conference.auckland.ac.nz/

* Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC),

May 26 – 30, 2024, Heraklion, Greece

Website: https://2024.eswc-conferences.org/

 

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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024)

Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., November 11-15, 2024

Website: https://iswc2024.semanticweb.org/

Calls for:

*** Research Track Papers

*** Resources Track Papers

*** In-Use Track Papers

Deadlines:

*** April 10th, 2024 (abstracts due)

*** April 17th, 2024 (full papers due)

* 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024)

Santiago de Compostela, Spain, October 19-24, 2024

 

Website: https://www.ecai2024.eu

Deadlines:

*** April 19th, 2024 (abstract due)

*** April 25th, 2024 (paper due)

* 23th edition of EPIA – Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Viana do Castelo, Portugal, September 3-6, 2024

Website: https://epia2024.pt

Deadlines:

*** April 30th, 2024

* 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Data – From Data to Knowledge (DOING 2024)

August 28, 2024, Bayonne, France, in conjunction with ADBIS 2024

Website: https://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/evenements/doing/?page_id=1259

Deadlines:

*** April 29, 2024 (paper submission)

*** June 8, 2024 (Notification of acceptance)

*** June 18, 2024 (Camera-ready)

* 43rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2024) “Conceptual Modeling, AI, and Beyond”

October 28-31, 2024, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Website: https://sei.cmu.edu/go/er2024

Deadlines:

*** 19 May 2024 (full paper abstracts submission)

*** 26 May 2024 (full paper submission)

 

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SPECIAL ISSUES

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* Special Issue on Ontologies and Large Language Models, Applied Ontology

Website: https://www.iospress.com/news/call-for-papers-ontologies-and-large-language-models

Submission deadline:

*** April 19, 2024

 

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March 2024 newsletter

Dear IAOA members,

Below you find the news and announcements of our March 2024 newsletter.

If you have information to share with the IAOA’s community, e.g., scientific events that you wish to advertise, please do not hesitate to contact us (calendars@iaoa.org).

Best,

The Executive Council of the IAOA

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EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA

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* FOIS 2024 – 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
8-9 July 2024 (online) and 15-19 July 2024, Enschede, Netherlands

Website: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/

Several calls within FOIS:
*** 15 March 2024 (Early Career Symposium)
*** 17 April 2024 (Journal-First Track)
*** 17 April 2024 (Ontology Showcase and Ontology Demonstration)
*** 29 April 2024 (Research and Industrial Project Exhibition)

Workshops at JOWO 2024:
*** Cognition And OntologieS (CAOS8)
*** Energy, Materials and Sustainability Ontology (Emsusto) Workshop 2024
*** FAIR Principles for Ontologies and Medatata in Knowledge Management (FOAM)
*** 13th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry (FOMI)
*** Workshop on Foundational Ontology (FOUST VIII)
*** Integrated Food Ontology Workshop (IFOW 2024)
*** 3rd International Workshop KM4LAW – Knowledge Management and Process Mining for Law (KM4LAW)
*** Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs for Industry (OK4I)
*** 10th International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling (OntoCom X)
*** Playing with Meanings (PwM)
*** 1st International Workshop on Modeling for Cybersecurity (Semantic Shields I)
*** Semantic Technologies for Data Management (ST4DM)
*** Workshop on the Convergence of Large Language Models and Ontologies
*** ContemporarY Ontologies for Digital Archives (YODA)

Paper submission for all workshops at JOWO 2024
*** April 17, 2024

–> Stay tuned to the website for updates!

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ONTOLOGY SUMMIT 2024

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Topic: Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Techniques for and with Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs
website: https://ontologforum.com/index.php/OntologySummit2024

The Ontology Summit is an annual series of events that involves the ontology community and communities related to each year’s theme chosen for the summit. The Ontology Summit was started by Ontolog and NIST, and the program has been co-organized by Ontolog and NIST along with the co-sponsorship of other organizations that are supportive of the Summit goals and objectives.

As part of Ontolog’s general advocacy to bring ontology science and related engineering into the mainstream, we endeavor to facilitate discussion and knowledge sharing amongst stakeholders and interested parties relevant to the use of ontologies. The results will be synthesized and summarized in the form of the Ontology Summit 2024 Communiqué, with expanded supporting material provided on the web and in journal articles.

Schedule:

** 20 March 2024 Track A Session 2
** 27 March 2024 Track A Session 3 Amit Sheth
** 3 April 2024 First Synthesis
** 10 April 2024 Track C Applications Session 1 Finance
** 17 April 2024 Track C Applications Session 2 Manufacturing
** 24 April 2024 Track C Applications Session 3 Healthcare
** 1 May 2024 Track D Session 1 Risk Panel
** 8 May 2024 Track D Session 2 Ethics Panel
** 15 May 2024 Second Synthesis
** 22 May 2024 Communiqué

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC),
May 26 – 30, 2024, Heraklion, Greece

Website: https://2024.eswc-conferences.org/

* 13th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems
April 8-11 2024, Sheffield, UK

Website: https://foiks2024.github.io/

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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* 37th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2024)
18-21 June, 2024, Bergen, Norway

Website: https://dl2024.w.uib.no/

Submission deadline:
*** March 18, 2024 (paper registration)
*** March 25, 2025 (paper submission)

* 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., November 11-15, 2024

Website: https://iswc2024.semanticweb.org/

Calls for:
*** Research Track Papers
*** Resources Track Papers
*** In-Use Track Papers

Deadlines:
*** April 10th, 2024 (abstracts due)
*** April 17th, 2024 (full papers due)

* 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Data – From Data to Knowledge (DOING 2024)
August 28, 2024, Bayonne, France, in conjunction with ADBIS 2024

Website: https://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/evenements/doing/?page_id=1259

Deadlines:
*** April 29, 2024 (paper submission)
*** June 8, 2024 (Notification of acceptance)
*** June 18, 2024 (Camera-ready)

* 28th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems
September 11-13, 2024, Seville, Spain

Website: http://kes2024.kesinternational.org

Deadlines:
*** 8 April, 2024

* 43rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2024) “Conceptual Modeling, AI, and Beyond”
28-31 October, 2024, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Website: https://sei.cmu.edu/go/er2024

Deadlines:
*** 19 May 2024 (full paper abstracts submission)
*** 26 May 2024 (full paper submission)

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SPECIAL ISSUES

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* Special Issue on Ontologies and Large Language Models, Applied Ontology

Website:https://www.iospress.com/news/call-for-papers-ontologies-and-large-language-models

Submission deadline:
*** March 31, 2024

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Ontology Summit 2024

(from: https://ontologforum.com/index.php/OntologySummit2024)

Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Techniques for and with Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs

The Ontology Summit is an annual series of events that involves the ontology community and communities related to each year’s theme chosen for the summit. The Ontology Summit was started by Ontolog and NIST, and the program has been co-organized by Ontolog and NIST along with the co-sponsorship of other organizations that are supportive of the Summit goals and objectives.

As part of Ontolog’s general advocacy to bring ontology science and related engineering into the mainstream, we endeavor to facilitate discussion and knowledge sharing amongst stakeholders and interested parties relevant to the use of ontologies. The results will be synthesized and summarized in the form of the Ontology Summit 2024 Communiqué, with expanded supporting material provided on the web and in journal articles.

Description

The summit will survey current techniques that combine neural network machine learning with symbolic methods, especially methods based on ontologies and knowledge graphs.

Ontologies are representations of a knowledge domain. They define the concepts, relationships, properties, axioms and rules within that domain, providing a framework that enables a deep understanding of that subject area. Knowledge graphs are structured representations of semantic knowledge that are stored in a graph. Ontologies and knowledge graphs are used to enable machine reasoning and semantic understanding, allowing a system to draw inferences and to derive new information and relationships between entities.

Neural network and other machine learning models, such as LLMs, are trained on large corpora, learning the patterns and connections between words and images. Hence, although their “knowledge base” is broad, it is also sometimes incorrect and/or biased, and doesn’t explicitly understand the semantics or relationships in that content.

Consequently, neural network and traditional AI techniques are complementary. The Fall Series of the summit explored the similarities and distinctions between ontologies and LLMs, as well as how they can be used together. The Main Summit Series will examine the more general topic of neuro-symbolic techniques, especially how one can leverage the complementary benefits of neural networks and of ontologies and knowledge graphs.

Main Series Chair Ken Baclawski

  • Track A. Foundations and Architectures
  • Track B. Large Language Models, Ontologies and Knowedge Graphs
  • Track C. Applications
  • Track D. Risks and Ethics

Schedule

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