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Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO)- Approaching soon!

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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:

https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/93738897633?pwd=R1k4bVdqSHA1ZEpXT2lkcXZyZWNyUT09

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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Educational Series on Applied Ontology – Next session approaching soon!

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

The second of its regular webinar sessions will be held on
Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 10:00 EDT / 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST/SAST
via a Zoom meeting.

How to join via Zoom:
– Meeting ID: 973 5823 2667
– Passcode: 554951
https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/97358232667?pwd=V0k0NWZ1dEd1eEJJVUE4eGJMVGhHdz09

No registration needed; please find full connection details at the end of this message. Contact: info@iaoa.org

**Program**

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

Roberta Ferrario
Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the CNR,
Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Trento, Italy

Title: “The theory of variable embodiment and the modeling of organisational change”

Abstract: How can organisations survive not only the substitution of members, but also other dramatic changes, like that of the norms regulating their activities, the goals they plan to achieve, or the system of roles that compose them? These are some of the classical questions an ontology of organisations should be able to answer. I will briefly present Kit Fine’s notions of rigid and variable embodiment and propose an integration aimed at addressing the issue of re-identification of organisations through change.

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

Paweł Garbacz
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

Title: “Applied ontologies as evolving artifacts. Why and how should you take care of managing ontology development?”

Abstract: If you think of an applied ontology as a dynamic informational artefact that is being developed over time, then you might want to consider a framework which would allow you to track the history of its lifecycle, test the changes it undergoes, and control its quality. These challenges are similar to challenges faced in bog-standard software development. In my presentation, I will show how the well-known software tools, including Continuous Integration platforms, version control systems, testing platforms, and review workflows, may address these challenges.

**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**
Topic: 2nd ESAO session
Time:  Jul 19, 2022 04:00 PM Paris

Join Zoom Meeting
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JOWO 2022 – Registration open!

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Episode VIII: The Svear Sommar of Ontology
https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2022/

The Joint Ontology WOrkshops (JOWO) is a venue of workshops that, together, address a wide spectrum of topics related to ontology research, ranging from Cognitive Science to Knowledge Representation, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics.

JOWO 2022 will be held 15-19 August 2022 in Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden.

JOWO is a conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA), which is a non-profit organization aiming to promote interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology.

You can find a general presentation of JOWO and former editions here.

**Registration is now open**
https://www.trippus.net/JOWO2022_registration

We encourage everyone who intends to participate in JOWO to register as soon as possible so we the local organisation can plan accordingly.  Note that early bird registration ends on the 23rd of July.

May 2022 Newsletter

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Dear IAOA members,

Herewith you receive the May 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

[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] 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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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA

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* Several events in the context of the:
8th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2022) – Episode VIII: The Svear Sommar of Ontology
August 15-19, 2022, Jönköping University, Sweden

Website: https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2022/index.html

* OSS 2022 – Ontologies for Social Services @JOWO2022

Website: https://csse.utoronto.ca/oss2022

Deadline for submissions:
** May 23, 2022

* FOUST VI – 6th Workshop on Foundational Ontology @JOWO2022

Website: https://foust.inf.unibz.it/foust6/

Deadline for submissions:
** May 27, 2022

* IFOW 2022 – The Integrated Food Ontology Workshop @JOWO2022

Website: https://foodon.org/ifow-2022-workshop/

Deadline for submissions:
** June 3, 2022

* RobOntics 2022 – Ontologies for Autonomous Robotics @JOWO2022

Website: https://robontics2022.github.io/

Deadline for submissions:
** June 3, 2022

* CAOS 2022 – Cognition And OntologieS @JOWO 2022

Website: https://caos.inf.unibz.it/cfp22/

Deadline for submissions:
** June 3, 2022

* FOMI 2022 – 12th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies meet Industry
Tentative date: September 12-15, 2022
INP-ENIT, University of Toulouse, Tarbes, France

Website: https://ontocommons.eu/news-events/events/12th-international-workshop-formal-ontologies-meet-industry-fomi22

Deadline for submissions:
** June 3, 2022

* Ensusto: Energy, Materials and Sustainability Ontology@JOWO 2022

Website: https://ensusto.github.io/jowo2022/

Deadline for submissions:
** June 15, 2022

* FMKD 2022 – Formal Models of Knowledge Diversity @JOWO2022

Website: https://sites.google.com/unimib.it/fmkd/

Deadline for submissions:
** June 15, 2022

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* 16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2022)
May 17-20, 2022, Barcelona, Spain

Website: https://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2022/

* Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2022)
May 29 – June 2, 2022, Hersonissos, Greece

Website: https://2022.eswc-conferences.org/

* 32nd International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases (EJC 2022)
May 30 – June 3, 2022, Hamburg, Germany

Website: https://ejc2022.entavis.com/index.html

* 34th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2022)
June 6-10, 2022, Leuven, Belgium

Website: https://caise22.ugent.be/

* 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2022)
June 14-17, 2022, Halifax, Canada

Website: https://aime22.aimedicine.info

* AIC 2022] 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition
@SweCog 2022: the conference of the Swedish Cognitive Science Society
June 15-17, 2022, Örebro, Sweden

Website: https://aic20.aass.oru.se/

* 11th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise (VORTE 2022)
@ 24th IEEE International Conference on Business Informatics (CBI 2022),
June, 15-17, 2022, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Website: https://vorte2022.github.io/

* 30th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2022)
June 19-22, 2022, Tirrenia, Pisa, Italy

Website: https://sebd2022.isti.cnr.it/

* 18th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2022)
June 20-23, 2022, Biarritz, France

Website: ie2022.iutbayonne.univ-pau.fr

* 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2022)
June 27 – July 1, 2022, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
(physical event supporting some virtual presence)

Website: https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc22/

* 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and
the 25th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2022), July 23-29, 2022, Wien, Austria

Website: https://ijcai-22.org/

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UPCOMING DEADLINES OF EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* SEMANTiCS 2022
September 12-15, 2022, Vienna, Austria

Website: https://2022-eu.semantics.cc/conference

Submission deadline:
*** May 16, 2022 (abstract submission research&innovation track)
*** May 23, 2022 (paper submission research&innovation track)
*** May 30, 2022 (paper submission industry&use case)

* 20th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPMN 2022)
September 13-15, 2022, Münster, Germany

Website: https://bpm2022.uni-muenster.de/

Submission deadline:
*** May 16, 2022 (preliminary paper and abstract submission)
*** May 23, 2022 (paper submission)

* 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage (SWODCH 2022)
@ ADBIS 2022, September 5, 2022, Turin, Italy

Website: https://swodch2022.inf.unibz.it/

Submission deadline:
*** May 21, 2022

* 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2022)
September 20-23, 2022, Padua, Italy

Website: http://tpdl2022.dei.unipd.it/

Submission deadline:
*** May 22, 2022 (short paper)
*** May 29, 2022 (full paper)

* 6th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2022) @Declarative AI 2022

Website: https://2022.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/ruleml-rr-cfp

Submission deadline:
*** May 24, 2022 (title and abstract submission)
*** June 2, 2022 (paper submission)

* Intelligent Data – From Data to Knowledge (DOING 2022)
September 5, 2022, Turin, Italy

Website: https://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/evenements/doing/?page_id=820

Submission deadline:
*** June 1, 2022

* 23rd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2022)
September 26-29, 2022, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Website: https://ekaw2022.inf.unibz.it/

Submission deadline:
*** June 3, 2022 (abstract submission)
*** June 10, 2022 (paper submission)

* The 28th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2022)
October 4-7, 2022, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Website: https://coopisconference.org/

Submission deadline:
*** June 7, 2022

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

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

Submission deadline:
*** July 31, 2022

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SPECIAL ISSUES INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

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* Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), special issue on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage

CFP: https://dl.acm.org/journal/JOCCH/semanticwebch

Deadline for submission:
*** June 1, 2022

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ONTOLOGY SUMMIT 2022

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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.

2022 Topic – Pandemics and Other Disasters

Website: https://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2022

Upcoming agenda:

*** May 18, 2022 Space Environment – Disasters
*** May 25, 2022 Situational Awareness Project
*** June 1, 2022 Situational awareness UAV
*** June 8, 2022 Aerospace and Maritime Disasters Synthesis
*** June 15, 2022 Communique Preparation
*** June 22, 2022 Communique Preparation
*** June 29, 2022 Communique Preparation

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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/

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Ontology Summit 2022 — Pandemics and Other Disasters

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Ontology Summit

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.

Ontology Summit 2022 Theme: Pandemics and Other Disasters
https://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2022

The COVID-19 pandemic as well as other pandemics and disasters have
prompted an impressive, worldwide response by governments, industry, and
the academic community. Ontologies can play a significant role in search,
data description, interoperability and harmonization of the increasingly
large data sources that are relevant to disasters such as the COVID-19
pandemic. This summit will examine the role that ontologies can play in
disasters. The first track will be an overview of the notion of disaster.
The other tracks will examine how the different kinds of disaster are
employing ontologies.

Schedule
(always at Noon US/Canada Eastern Time)

January 19, 2022 Overview of the Summit and Tracks
January 26, 2022 Josh Lieberman and Paul Churchyard: Overview of the OGC
Disaster Pilot
February 2, 2022 Doug Lenat Representation and Reasoning Lessons Learned
in Building Cyc
February 9, 2022 Chris Mungall and Justin Reese on COVID-19 Knowledge
Graphs
February 16, 2022 Doug Lenat Followup Session
February 23, 2022 Matthew West ; Open Discussion
March 2, 2022 Asiyah Lin on Post-workshop Report of WCO-2020: Workshop on
COVID-19 Ontologies
March 9, 2022 Michael DeBellis and Biswanath Dutta
March 16, 2022 John Beverley on The Subtle Art of Modeling Pandemics
March 23, 2022 Alpha Tom Kodamullil on COVID-19 Multilingual Ontologies
March 30, 2022 Pandemics Synthesis
April 6, 2022 Krzysztof Janowicz on Wildfires and KG issues (tentative)
April 13, 2022 Dave Jones on ESIP (tentative)
April 20, 2022 Karen Moe on Disaster observations from space (tentative)
April 27, 2022 Panel on Environment Disasters (tentative)
May 4, 2022 TBD
May 11, 2022 Robert Rovetto on Aerospace and Maritime Disasters
May 18, 2022 TBD
May 25, 2022 Rama Suresh on Situational Awareness Project (tentative)
June 1, 2022 TBD
June 8, 2022 Aerospace and Maritime Disasters Synthesis
June 15, 2022 Communique Preparation
June 22, 2022 Communique Preparation
June 29, 2022 Communique Preparation

JOWO 2022

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The Joint Ontology Workshops – JOWO 2022

Episode 8: The Svear Sommar of Ontology  

August 15-19, 2022, Jönköping, Sweden (On-site)

https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2022/index.html

— Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals —

* Submission is open until: February 15, 2022

* Notification: March 1, 2022

The organisation team invites proposals for workshops and tutorials to be submitted to the eighth edition of the Joint Ontology Workshop (JOWO 2022). The event will take place at Jönköping University in Sweden on August 15-19, 2022.

Workshops and tutorials at JOWO 2022 are events whose scientific program is independently established by the workshop organisers, but whose venue matters are managed by the organisation of the umbrella event. Organisers for each workshop are responsible to advertise the workshop, finding a program committee, and reviewing and selecting the contributions. Each workshop will be treated as an independent track at JOWO and will be provided with a submission track on JOWO‘s Easychair, a room at a shared venue with joint breaks, shared keynote speakers, and social programs. Attendees are free to partake in all workshops at JOWO and all accepted papers are to be published in the joint proceedings (open access CEUR proceedings in the IAOA series: http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html).

Proposals for workshops of interest are those that provide a forum for the discussion of theory, practice, development and/or application of topics broadly related to ontologies, formal ontology, and knowledge management and their application in information science or closely related areas. The strength of JOWO is the variety of different topics within the same domain. Therefore, JOWO workshops typically address a wide spectrum of topics related to ontology research and information science: ranging from Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Knowledge Representation and Logic, Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Hybrid AI, Conceptual Modelling and Semantic Web. In general, any particular domain in which ontologies may be put to use is welcome. As a workshop collective, JOWO is especially suitable for interdisciplinary and innovative formats.

Previous JOWO editions were held as independent events in 2019 in Graz (Austria), in 2017 in Bolzano (Italy), and in conjunction with FOIS 2018 in Cape Town (South Africa), with FOIS 2016 in Annecy (France), and at IJCAI 2015 in Buenos Aires (Argentina). During the pandemic times 2022-21, JOWO were held as components in BOSK 2021 and 2022 in Bolzano (Italy).This year’s venue is Jönköping University. The university offers modern facilities in a mid-sized town in the south of Sweden. Beautifully located between shimmering lakes and lush forests, Jönköping is a popular tourist destination for nature lovers, sports enthusiasts and those interested in nordic culture. JOWO will be organised as an on-site event, but individual workshops may choose to invite part of their workshop presenters in an online form, given that they manage the complexities of the hybrid format independently from the JOWO organisation.

 

— SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS —

Workshop proposals should be sent to:
steering.JOWO2022@gmail.com as soon as possible and no later than February 15, 2022. 

We encourage several forms and lengths of workshops (the list is non-exhaustive):

  • workshops that focus on an established research area, including continuations of workshops that were held in the past;
  • workshops that focus on emerging topics and applications, or on open research questions and challenges;
  • workshops that aim to create cross-disciplinary research fostering the exchange of ideas between groups otherwise mostly disconnected.

Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be no more than 2 pages in length, and must contain the following information:

  • title of the workshop/tutorial;
  • names of the workshop/tutorial organisers;
  • brief description of experience in workshop/tutorial organisation;
  • description of the workshop/tutorial topic;
  • brief description of the expected audience (please give an estimate of the expected number of participants and their background and interests);
  • intended duration of the workshop (between half a day and a full day);
  • timeline for the workshop (submission dates, notification dates). We recommend taking the proposed “important dates” below into account.

— EVALUATION —

Submissions of workshop proposals will be evaluated by the workshop chairs of JOWO 2022 using the following criteria:

  • Scientific relevance and utility to attendees;
  • Quality of the proposal;
  • Likelihood of success of the workshop;
  • Overlap and complementarity with other workshops.

— IMPORTANT DATES —

  • February 15, 2022 – Workshop proposal submission deadline
  • March 1, 2022 – Latest date for notification of workshop acceptance
  • March 16, 2022 – 1st call for papers to be distributed by individual workshop organisers
  • August 15-19, 2022 – JOWO conference dates

— FURTHER INQUIRIES —

In case of further questions please contact: steering.JOWO2022@gmail.com

— ORGANISATION —

Chairs and local organisation:
Maria M. Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden

Karl Hammar, Jönköping University, Sweden

Tan He, Jönköping University, Sweden

Proceedings chair:

Tiago Sales Prince, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Web chair: 

Selja Seppälä, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland

First ESAO Webinar

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First ESAO Webinar
November 9th, 11:00-12:00 EST, 17:00-18:00 CET

DESCRIPTION
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The IAOA has created the Educational Series on Applied Ontology (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) (whose next edition will be in 2023). ESAO is complementary in format and its overall approach. The goal is to provide a combination of archive educational material (e.g. short video lectures) and a series of webinars for presenting and discussing that material.

The ESAO Series is open for all and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike. The launch event for this new series was held at the second Bolzano Summer of Knowledge (BoSK 2021), with seven webinar sessions according to the new format on a single day.

–> The first of the regular webinar sessions will be held on
November 9th, 11:00-12:00 EST, 17:00-18:00 CET, online.

No registration needed. The Zoom link for participating is:

https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/99443318113?pwd=djcreEZHaWE5a1lSclNlWlR5YnpCUT09

Meeting ID: 994 4331 8113, Passcode: 410885

 

PROGRAM
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* 11:00-11:30 EST, 17:00-17:30 CET

Adrien Barton, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) – CNRS, France
“Ontological realism: A philosophical overview”

Abstract:
Some applied ontologies explicitly adhere to a position named “ontological realism”. In this presentation, I will locate “ontological realism” within the landscape of the various forms of realism that have been proposed in metaphysics and philosophy of science, among which Platonic realism, Aristotelian realism, scientific realism, entity realism and structural realism.

* 11:30-12:00 EST, 17:30-18:00 CET

Lars Vogt, Leibniz Information Center for Science & Technology (TIB), Germany
“Boundaries and natural units”

Abstract:
I will present the concept of bona fide and fiat boundaries and review the problems involved with this approach for demarcating natural units, with examples from the life sciences, focussing on issues revolving around granularity and frames of reference. I will then introduce an alternative approach that focusses on the concept of causal unity.

 

ORGANIZATION
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Members of the Education Technical Committee of IAOA
and among those primarily (in alphabetical order):
* Oliver Kutz
* Frank Loebe
* Sandra Lovrenčić
* Daniele Porello
* Robert Rovetto
* Cassia Trojahn
* Laure Vieu

Contact
E-Mail: info@iaoa.org

 

The IAOA at Ontology Commons Global Workshop

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On November 2, 2021, at 10:50-11:25, Laure Vieu – in the role of current president of the IAOA –  will give a speech at the “Global Workshop: Ontology Commons addressing challenges of the Industry 5.0 transition”. The title of the talk is: “The international Association for Ontology and its Applications: 12 Years of Promoting Applied Ontology with an Interdisciplinary Approach”.

For more information, please visit:

https://ontocommons.eu/news-events/events/global-workshop-ontology-commons-addressing-challenges-industry-50-transition

 

BOSK 2021 – CALL FOR REGISTRATION

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Registration for events in the scope of BOSK 2021, including FOIS 2021, ICBO2021, JOWO 2021, and  ESAO 2021, is now open!

Please visit:

Note that:

  • Registration is mandatory to take part in the events;
  • Online participation is free (except for the paper registration fee at FOIS 2021);
  • Early registration ends on August 27th.

CFP – The Joint Ontology Workshops – JOWO 2021

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In conjunction with FOIS 2021 online and hybrid (in Bolzano, Italy)
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JOWO 2021 invites submissions to six featured workshops:

– CAOS V: Cognition And OntologieS
– FOMI 2021: Workshop on Formal Ontology meets Industry
– FOUST V: Workshop on Foundational Ontology
– OntoCom 2021: Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modelling
– ROBONTICS 2021: Ontologies for Autonomous Robotics
– SoLEE 2021: Ontology of Social, Legal and Economic Entities

The tentative deadline for submissions is: July 3, 2021

Please refer to the individual workshops for detailed submission instructions and any deadlines changes.

All workshops will take place between September 11 and 18, 2021, either as hybrid or fully virtual events.The scientific programs are independently established by the workshop organizers. Together, the JOWO workshops address a wide spectrum of topics related to ontology research, ranging from Cognitive Science to Knowledge Representation, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics. The workshop organizers also make decisions on the specifics of the workshop format (hybrid or fully virtual).

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