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FOIS 2018 report from Cape Town

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The 10th FOIS conference took place in Cape Town (South Africa) on Sept. 19-21 after the ISAO Summer school (Sept. 10-14) and two days of meetings of the JOWO workshops (Sept. 17-18). The conference ran nicely and, as usual in the past, sessions were consistently well attended with lively discussions at the end of the presentations.

The papers, which were subdivided in three areas: (i) foundations, (ii) properties and agents, (iii) methods and tools, gave a snapshot of the interests and the challenges faced in the community. As usual in the recent FOIS editions, papers addressing modeling concerns did not attempt to introduce new foundational ontologies.
Instead, they focused on comparison studies (e.g. time across ontologies) or frameworks for modeling specific notions that have not yet received much ontological attention (e.g. special types, metaphors, competition, spiritual beliefs, measure) or are still considered problematic (e.g. structural universals and states of affairs, dispositions, localities, nominal and actual qualities).

This year particular attention has raised the contribution of papers with a focus on applications and integration: the discussion of localities was based on actual problems faced by historians; the modeling of agency was based on the merging of cognitive and ontological formal systems; the use of ontology-mediated data management was applied to the integration of Research & Innovation ecosystems; the use of data mining routines was exploited for understanding the structure of data in a Semantic Web perspective; and so on.
Scientifically, the conference achieved its goals by fostering the interaction and by engaging live discussions across disciplines like computer science, philosophy, language and knowledge representation. The emphasis on application concerns that is a new turn in FOIS is shown by the participation of Pascal Hitzler as co-chair, the invited talk by Alessandro Oltramari and the assignment of the FOIS Best Paper Award to the paper “SAREF4health: IoT standard-based ontology-driven healthcare systems” (by J. Moreira, L. Ferreira Pires, M. van Sinderen and L. M. Daniele). It is the very first time that an application paper wins this award.

Two other keynotes were given by Peter Simons, which addressed the notion of representation and the aboutness relation, and by Riichiro Mizoguchi, which presented a new ontological theory of causation.
Finally, the Early Career Symposium allowed the students to discuss their PhD’s plans and goals with the FOIS participants with the advantage of collecting and comparing a variety of views as arising in the different disciplines present at FOIS.

The keynote presentations are accessible (for a limited time) from the FOIS 2018 website.

and the FOIS 2018 proceedings in the IOS Press online access page in the member’s area.

Please also see the reports on FOIS 2018 and on ISAO 2018 (with pictures!) from the Local Chair Maria Keet:
FOIS’18 conference report
ISAO 2018, Cape Town, ‘trip’ report

The Program Chairs, Stefano Borgo and Pascal Hitzler.

NOVEMBER 2018 NEWSLETTER

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Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the November 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. 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].

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IAOA Executive Council

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* EKAW 2018 – 21st International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
November 12-16, Nancy, France

Website: https://project.inria.fr/ekaw2018/

* AI*IA 2018 – 17th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
November 20-23, Trento, Italy

Website: http://aixia2018.fbk.eu

* TriCoLore 2018 – C3GI – ISD – SCORE – Creativity | Cognition | Computation
December 13-14, Bolzano, Italy

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

* IEEE ICSC 2019 – 13th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
January 30 – February 1, Newport Beach, California, USA

Website: http://www.ieee-icsc.org

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* CAiSE 2019 – 31st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
June 3-7, 2019, Roma, Italy

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, November 23 (abstract submission)
*** Friday, November 30 (paper submission)

Website: https://www.caise19.it/

* ESWC 2019 – 16th Extended Semantic Web Conference
June 2-6, 2019, Portoroz, Slovenia

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, December 3 (abstract submission)
*** Monday, December 10 (paper submission)

Website: https://2019.eswc-conferences.org

* LDK 2019 – 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge
May 20-22, 2019, Leipzig, Germany

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, January 11 (paper submission)

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES
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* Ontology Summit 2019
November 14, virtual meeting
(the Ontology Summit is organized and run by the Ontolog Community)
John Sowa “Explanations and help facilities designed for people”

Websites:
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2019
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/WikiHomePage
*** Call for Presentations and Schedule: http://bit.ly/2zzyX6s

* Executive Council (EC) Meeting

next meeting: n.206, November 26, 14:30 UTC
default dates: bi-weekly, on Mondays, 14:30 UTC

EC Webpage:

Executive Council

* EduTC Meetings – Technical Committee on Education

next meeting: n. 33, December 5, 14:30 UTC
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* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG

next meeting: n.61, December 3, 18:30 UTC
default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 18:30 UTC

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Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:
http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_60

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OCTOBER 2018 NEWSLETTER

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Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the October 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. 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].

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* ISWC 2018 – 17th International Semantic Web Conference
October 8-12, Monterey, California, USA

Website: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org

* SIS-IoT 2018 – 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Interoperability and Standardization in the IoT
October 15, Santa Barbara, California, USA

Website: https://iot2018wt.github.io/sis-iot/

* RO – Relation Ontology
October, 24-25, Aurora, Colorado, USA

Website: http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Relation_Ontology_2018

* DL – 31st International Workshop on Description Logics
October 27-29, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Website: http://dl.kr.org/dl2018/

* WOMoCoE 2018 – 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution (Workshop 6 at KR 2018)
October 29, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Website: http://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/womocoe2018/

* KR 2018 – 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
** workshops and tutorials:   October 27-29, Tempe, Arizona, USA
** main conference: October 30 – November 2, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Website: http://reasoning.eas.asu.edu/kr2018/

* EKAW 2018 – 21st International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
November 12-16, Nancy, France

Website: https://project.inria.fr/ekaw2018/

* AI*IA 2018 – 17th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
November 20-23, Trento, Italy

Website: http://aixia2018.fbk.eu

* TriCoLore 2018 – C3GI – ISD – SCORE – Creativity | Cognition | Computation
December 13-14, Bolzano, Italy

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

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* IEEE ICSC 2019 – 13th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
January 30 – February 1, 2019, Newport Beach, California, USA

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, October 26 (extended paper submission)

Website: http://www.ieee-icsc.org

* TriCoLore 2018 – C3GI – ISD – SCORE – Creativity | Cognition | Computation
December 13-14, Bolzano, Italy

Deadline for submissions:
*** Thursday, November 1 (paper and extended abstract submission)

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

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES
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* Ontology Summit 2019: 3rd Planning Session
October 10, virtual meeting
(the Ontology Summit is organized and run by the Ontolog Community)

Websites:
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2019
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/WikiHomePage

* Executive Council (EC) Meeting

next meeting:  n.203, October 15, 14:30 UTC
default dates: bi-weekly, on Mondays, 14:30 UTC

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

* EduTC Meetings – Technical Committee on Education

next meeting:  TBD (October 10 or 17, 15:00 UTC; see mailing list)
default dates: 1st Wednesday of each month, 15:00 UTC
< tentative new date & time, confirmation pending;
see mailing list >

Mailing list archive:
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EduTC Webpage:
https://iaoa.org/index.php/about/organization/standing– committees/education-standing-committee/

EduTC Wiki: http://iaoaedu.cs.uct.ac.za/

* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG

next meeting:  n.60, November 5, 18:30 UTC
default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 18:30 UTC

Mailing list archive: https://listserv.ovgu.de/pipermail/iaoa-swao/

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:
http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_59

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August 2018 Newsletter

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Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the August 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

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APPROACHING EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* ISAO 2018 4th Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology
September 10-15, Cape Town, South Africa

Website: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/

* FOIS 2018 10th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
September 17-21, Cape Town, South Africa

Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/

* JOWO 2018 @ FOIS 2018 3rd Joint Ontology WOrkshops
September 17-18, Cape Town, South Africa

Website: https://www.iaoa.org/jowo2018/

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* ESSLLI 2018 30th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
August 6-17, Sofia (Bulgaria)

Website: http://esslli2018.folli.info/

* CARLA 2018 Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning and Application
August 11-12, Osnabrueck, Germany

Website: https://www.conceptuccino.uniosnabrueck.de/carla_workshop/carla_2018.html

* Social Ontology 2018 The 11th Biennial Collective Intentionality Conference
August 22-25, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Website: https://isosonline.org/Social-Ontology-2018

* NeSy 2018 13th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning
August 23-24, Prague, Czech Republic

Website: http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy18/

* SEMANTiCS 2018 The Linked Data Conference: 14th International Conference on Semantic Systems
September 10-13, University of Vienna, Austria

Website: http://2018.semantics.cc

* CiNaPS 2018 Causality in the Neuro- and Psychological Sciences
September 19-21, Antwerp, Belgium

Website: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/cinaps-2018/

* FORMALS 2018 Formal Reasoning and Semantics
September 24-28, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Website: http://formals.ufzg.hr/

* WOSRA@IROS Working towards Ontology-based Standards for Robotics and Automation
October 5, Madrid, Spain

Website: http://www.aslab.upm.es/events/WOSRA/

* SIS-IoT 2018 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Interoperability and Standardization in the IoT
October 15, Santa Barbara, California, USA

Website: https://iot2018wt.github.io/sis-iot/

* RO Relation Ontology
October, 24-25, Aurora, Colorado, USA

Website: http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Relation_Ontology_2018

* DL 31st International Workshop on Description Logics
October 27-29, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Website: http://dl.kr.org/dl2018/

* WOMoCoE 2018 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution (Workshop 6 at KR 2018)
October 29, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Website: http://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/womocoe2018/

* KR 2018 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
** workshops and tutorials: October 27-29, Tempe, Arizona, USA
** main conference: October 30 – November 2, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Website: http://reasoning.eas.asu.edu/kr2018/

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* SIS-IoT 2018 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Interoperability and Standardization in the IoT
October 15, Santa Barbara, California, USA

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, August 15 (paper submission deadline)

Website: https://iot2018wt.github.io/sis-iot/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS
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* Microbiology-related Ontology Studies
Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Deadline for submissions:
*** Saturday, September 15

Website: https://jbiomedsem.biomedcentral.com/microbiology-related-ontology-studies

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES
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* Executive Council (EC) Meeting

next meeting: n.200, August 20, 14:30 UTC
default dates: bi-weekly, on Mondays, 14:30 UTC

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

* SWAO SIG Meetings Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG

next meeting: n.58, September 10, 18:30 UTC
default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 18:30 UTC

Mailing list archive: https://listserv.ovgu.de/pipermail/iaoa-swao/

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:
http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_57

* EduTC Meetings Technical Committee on Education

next meeting: n.31, September 4, 15:00 UTC
default dates: 1st Tuesday of each month, 15:00 UTC

EduTC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaTC/TCeducation/TCeducation.php
EduTC Wiki: http://iaoaedu.cs.uct.ac.za/

* Ontology Summit 2018
Symposium held on April 30 and May 1, 2018
website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2018
Symposium website: http://bit.ly/2Fy60JR
Final version of the Communique: http://bit.ly/2NDQwIG

* Ontology Summit 2019: Planning Session
September 26, virtual meeting
(the Ontology Summit is organized and run by the Ontolog Community)

Websites:
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2019
*** http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2018_09_26

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STATUS OF FUTURE EVENTS INVOLVING IAOA
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* FOIS 2018 Formal Ontology in Information Systems and
ISAO 2018 Interdisciplinary School on Ontological Analysis

FOIS 2018 website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za
ISAO 2018 website: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za
Location: Cape Town, South Africa (both events)

Event dates:
** ISAO: September 10-15 interdisciplinary school
** FOIS: September 17-18 Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO)
September 19-21 main conference

== FOIS Keynote Speakers ==

* Alessandro Oltramari
(Bosch Research and Technology Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
“Ontologies for artificial minds”

* Riichiro Mizoguchi
(Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Japan)
“State-centric methodology of ontology engineering”

* Peter Simons
(Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and University of Salzburg, Austria)
“Representing representing: The ontology of aboutness”

== Accepted Papers ==

* 14 full papers
* 5 short papers

see http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=46

== FOIS Satellite Activities ==

Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=54

* Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) 2018
** 7 workshops
** 2 tutorials
* early career symposium
* demo and industry track
* ontology competition

FOIS is preceded by the 4th Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO 2018): http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/

== ISAO Lecturers ==

* Arina Britz (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Foundations of Description Logics

* Maureen Donnelly (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Mereology, Location and Time

* Maria Keet (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Semantics and Conceptual Modelling

* Stefan Schulz (Medical University of Graz, Austria)
Biomedical Ontology

== ISAO Guest Lecturer ==

* Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and University of Salzburg, Austria)
Applied Mereology

* Stefano Borgo (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Trento, Italy)
Ontology and Robotics

The ISAO programme is available at: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/courses.html
Please notice: reduced registration fees available for attendants coming from Africa

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June 2018 Newsletter

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Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the June 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

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UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* NASSLLI 2018 North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
June 23-29, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, US

Website: https://www.cmu.edu/nasslli2018/

* WIMS 2018 The 8th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
June 25-27, Novi Sad, Serbia

Website: https://wims2018.pmf.uns.ac.rs/

* IJCAI-ECAI 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
July 13-19, Stockholm, Sweden

Website: https://www.ijcai-18.org/

* ESSLLI 2018 30th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
August 6-17, Sofia, Bulgaria

Website: http://esslli2018.folli.info/

* ICBO 2018 – International Conference on Biomedical Ontology
August 7-10, Corvallis, Oregon, US

Website: http://icbo2018.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/

* CARLA 2018 Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application
August 11-12, Osnabrueck, Germany

Website: https://www.conceptuccino.uni-osnabrueck.de/carla_workshop/carla_2018.html

* NeSy 2018 13th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning
August 23-24, Prague, Czech Republic

Website: http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy18/

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
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* Industry and Demonstrations Track @FOIS 2018
September 17-21, Cape Town, South Africa

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, June 25 (paper and demonstration description submission)

Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=359

* JOWO 2018 – Joint Ontology Workshops @FOIS 2018
September 17-18, Cape Town, South Africa

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, June 25 (paper submission)

applicable to these workshops:

** BOG@JOWO Workshop on Bad Ontology
Website: http://bog.inf.unibz.it/

** CAOS-CEX@JOWO Workshop on Cognition And OntologieS + Explainable AI
Website: http://caos.inf.unibz.it/

** DAO-SI@JOWO Workshop on Data meets Applied Ontologies in Open Science and Innovation
Website: https://www.inf.unibz.it/smart/index.php/2018/03/27/daosi2018/

** EPINON II 2nd International Workshop on Epistemology in Ontologies
Website: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/epinon2018/home.html

** KODeP@JOWO Workshop on Ontology for Heterogeneous Knowledge in Design and Planning
Website: https://kodepjowo.wordpress.com/

** Onto.Com – 6th International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modelling
Website: http://www.mis.ugent.be/ontocom2018/

* Ontology Competition @FOIS 2018
September 17-21, Cape Town, South Africa

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, June 29 (ontology submission)

Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=280

* Early Career Symposium @FOIS 2018
September 17-21, Cape Town, South Africa

Deadline for submissions:
*** Saturday, June 30 (summary of research submission)

Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=236

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF SPECIAL ISSUES ON APPLIED ONTOLOGY
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* Meaning in Context

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, July 23

Website: https://submissions.iospress.com/applied-ontology/CIM

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APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
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* SEMANTiCS 2018 The Linked Data Conference: 14th International Conference on Semantic Systems
September 10-13, University of Vienna, Austria

Deadline for submissions:
*** Sunday, July 1 (tutorial submission)

Website: http://2018.semantics.cc

* EKAW 2018 – 21st International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
November 12-16, Nancy, France

Deadline for submissions:
*** Monday, July 2 (abstract submission)
*** Monday, July 9 (paper submission)

Website: https://project.inria.fr/ekaw2018/

* DL 31st International Workshop on Description Logics
October 26-29, Tempe, Arizona, US

Deadline for submissions:
*** Saturday, July 14 (paper registration)
*** Saturday, July 21 (paper submission)

Website: http://dl.kr.org/dl2018/

* NeSy 2018 13th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning
August, 23-24, Prague, Czech Republic

Deadline for submissions:
*** Wednesday, August 1 (late breaking paper submission)

Website: http://www.neural-symbolic.org/NeSy18/

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UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES
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* Executive Council Meetings

next: n.196, June 25, 2018, 14:30 UTC
default dates: bi-weekly, Mondays, 14:30 UTC

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

* SWAO SIG Meetings Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG

next: n.56, July 2, 2018, 18:30 UTC
default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 18:30 UTC

Mailing list archive: https://listserv.ovgu.de/pipermail/iaoa-swao/

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:
http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_55

* EduTC Meetings Technical Committee on Education

next: TBD (please check mailing list)
default dates: 1st Tuesday of each month, 15:00 UTC

EduTC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaTC/TCeducation/TCeducation.php

Mailing list archive: https://listserv.ovgu.de//pipermail/iaoa-education/

* Ontology Summit 2018:

Communiqu is now complete. It is available at http://bit.ly/2JvrxIi

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STATUS OF FUTURE EVENTS INVOLVING IAOA
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* FOIS 2018 Formal Ontology in Information Systems and
ISAO 2018 Interdisciplinary School on Ontological Analysis
Location: Cape Town, South Africa

FOIS 2018 website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za
ISAO 2018 website: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za

Event dates:
** ISAO: September 10-15 interdisciplinary school
** FOIS: September 17-18 workshops
September 19-21 main conference

Important dates for FOIS and ISAO:
** Sunday, July 15 – early registration deadline

=== FOIS Keynote Speakers ===

+ Arianna Betti (University of Amsterdam)
+ Alessandro Oltramari (Bosch Research and Technology Center, Pittsburgh)
+ Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin and University of Salzburg)

=== FOIS Satellite Activities ===

website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=54

+ 7 workshops (JOWO 2018)
+ 2 tutorials
+ an Early Career Symposium (ECS)
+ a demo and industry track
+ an ontology competition

FOIS is preceded by the 4th Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO).

=== ISAO Lecturers ===

* Arina Britz (Stellenbosch University)
Foundations of Description Logics

* Maureen Donnelly (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Mereology, Location and Time

* Maria Keet (University of Cape Town)
Semantics and Conceptual Modelling

* Stefan Schulz (Medical University of Graz)
Biomedical Ontology

== ISAO Guest lecturer ==

* Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin)

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REVIEWS AND RESULTS OF PAST EVENTS
==================================

* Ontology Summit 2018
composed of weekly sessions between January and April 2018
Symposium held on April 30 and May 1, 2018

website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2018

Symposium website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/Ontology_Summit_2018_Symposium

Communique of Ontology Summit 2018: http://bit.ly/2JvrxIi

<end of newsletter>

April 2018 Newsletter

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herewith you receive the April 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

 

 

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===============================================

UPCOMING EVENTS SPONSORED/SUPPORTED BY IAOA

===============================================

 

*Ontology Summit 2018: Symposium

April 30-May 1, NITRD, Washington DC (USA)

Website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/Ontology_Summit_2018_Symposium

 

=====================================

UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

=====================================

 

*UKON 2018 UK Ontology Network

April 30, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

Website: http://ukontology.org/

 

===========================================================

APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA

===========================================================

 

*FOIS 2018 10th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems

September 17-21, Cape Town (South Africa)

 

Deadline for submissions: ***EXTENDED***

***Friday, April 13 (abstract submission)

***Wednesday 25 (paper submission)

Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za

 

==========================================================

APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

==========================================================

 

*SEMANTiCS 2018 The Linked Data Conference 14th International Conference on Semantic Systems

September 10-13, University of Vienna, Austria

 

Deadline for submissions:

*** Sunday, April 15 (abstract submission Research & Innovation track)

*** Sunday, April 22 (paper submission Research & Innovation track)

*** Sunday, May 6 (abstract submission Industry & Use Case track)

*** Monday, May 28 (paper submission Industry & Use Case track)

*** Monday, June 11 (paper submission Posters & Demo track)

*** Sunday, July 1 (tutorial submission)

Website: http://2018.semantics.cc

 

 

*ICBO 2018 International Conference on Biomedical Ontology

August 7-10, Corvallis, Oregon, US

 

Deadline for submissions:

***Wednesday, April 25 (paper, software demo, early career and workshop paper submission)

***Tuesday, May 15 (poster abstract submission)

Website: http://icbo2018.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/

 

* AI*QA 2018 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Question Answering, Budapest, Hungary

 

Deadline for submissions:

***Friday, May 4 (paper submission)

Website: http://aiqa2018.icar.cnr.it/

 

 

*KR 2018 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

October 30-November 2, Tempe, Arizona, US

 

Deadline for submission:

***Sunday, May 13 (abstract submission)

***Sunday, May 20 (paper submission)

 

 

*CiNaPS 2018 Causality in the Neuro- and Psychological Sciences

September 19-21, University of Antwerp, Belgium

 

Deadline for submissions:

***Tuesday, May 15 (abstract submission)

Website: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/cinaps-2018/

 

*AI*IA 2018 17th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence

November 20-23, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy

 

Deadline for submissions:

***Monday, May 28 (abstract submission)

***Monday, June 4 (paper submission)

Website: http://aixia2018.fbk.eu

 

*FOMI@Manufacturing 2018 Formal Ontology Meets Industry

co-located with CARV (October 8-10), date of the workshop TBA, Nantes, France

 

Deadline for submissions:

***Wednesday, May 30 (paper submission)

Website: https://carv2018.ec-nantes.fr/fomi-workshop

 

 

=============================================

UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES

=============================================

 

* EduTC Meetings Technical Committee on Education

next: n.29, May 8, 2018, 15:00 UTC

default dates: 1st Tuesday of each month, 15:00 UTC

EduTC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaTC/TCeducation/TCeducation.php

 

* Executive Council Meeting

next: n.192, April 23, 2018, 14:30 UTC

default dates: bi-weekly, Mondays, 14:30 UTC

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

 

* SWAO SIG Meetings Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG

next: n.54, May 7, 2018, 18:30 UTC

default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 18:30 UTC

Mailing list archive: https://listserv.ovgu.de/pipermail/iaoa-swao/

 

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:

http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_53

 

* Ontology Summit 2018

next: April 18, 2018, 17:00 18:30 UTC

default dates: Wednesdays, 17:00 18:30 UTC

website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2018

 

======================================

STATUS OF FUTURE EVENTS INVOLVING IAOA

======================================

 

* FOIS 2018 Formal Ontology in Information Systems and

ISAO 2018 Interdisciplinary School on Ontological Analysis

 

FOIS 2018 website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za

 

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

 

Event dates:

** ISAO: September 10-14 interdisciplinary school

** FOIS: September 17-18 workshops

September 19-21 main conference

 

Important dates for FOIS:

** Friday, April 13 (abstract submission)

** Wednesday, April 25 (paper submission)

** Wednesday, May 30 (paper notification)

** Sunday, June 24 (camera-ready)

 

====================================

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

====================================

+ Arianna Betti (University of Amsterdam)

+ Alessandro Oltramari (Bosch Research and Technology Center, Pittsburgh)

+ Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin and University of Salzburg)

 

====================================

SATELLITE ACTIVITIES

====================================

 

http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=54

 

+ 7 workshops (JOWO 2018)

+ 2 tutorials

+ a young researchers symposium,

+ a demo and industry track

+ an ontology competition

 

FOIS is preceded by the 4th Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/

 

 

< end of newsletter >

March 2018 Newsletter

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Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the March 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

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===============================================
UPCOMING EVENTS SPONSORED/SUPPORTED BY IAOA
===============================================

* Ontology Summit 2018: Weekly virtual sessions
January-April, default dates: each Wednesday, 90 min session
at 9:00 PST / 12:00 EST / 17:00 GMT|UTC / 18:00 CET
March sessions:
*** Mar 07: Harmonizing diverse conceptualizations in
multi-context systems engineering
*** Mar 14: Upper ontologies for specifying context
*** Mar 21: Contexts for Integration and Interoperability
*** Mar 28: Contexts in the Open Knowledge Network
Website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2018

* Ontology Summit 2018: Symposium
April 30-May 1, NITRD, Washington DC (USA)
Website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/Ontology_Summit_2018_Symposium

=====================================
UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
=====================================

* UKON 2018 – UK Ontology Network
April 30, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK
Website: http://ukontology.org/

===========================================================
APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA
===========================================================

* FOIS 2018 10th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
September 17-21, Cape Town, South Africa

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, April 13 (paper submission)
Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za

==========================================================
APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
==========================================================

* ICBO 2018 – International Conference on Biological Ontology
August 7-10, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, March 9 (workshops and tutorials proposals submission)
*** Wednesday, April 25 (paper, software demo, early career and workshop paper submission)
*** Tuesday, May 15 (poster abstract submission)
Website: http://icbo2018.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/

* ISWC 2018 – International Semantic Web Conference
October 8-12, Monterey, California, USA

Deadline for submissions:
*** Friday, March 30 (abstract submission)
*** Friday, April 6 (paper submission)
Website: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/

* ISWS 2018 – International Semantic Web Research Summer School
July 1-7, Bertinoro, Italy

Deadline for applications:
*** Saturday, March 31
Website: http://isws2018.semanticwebschool.org/

* SEMANTiCS 2018 – International Conference on Semantic Systems
September 10-13, Vienna, Austria

Deadline for submissions:
*** Sunday, April 1 (workshop proposals submission)
*** Sunday, April 15 (abstract submission (research tracks))
*** Sunday, April 22 (paper submission (research tracks))
Website: https://2018.semantics.cc/

=============================================
UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES
=============================================

* Executive Council Meeting
next: n.189, March 5, 2018, 14:30 UTC
default dates: bi-weekly, Mondays, 14:30 UTC
EC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaorga/council/council.html

* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG
next: n.52, March 5, 2018, 18:30 UTC
default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 18:30 UTC
Mailing list archive: https://listserv.ovgu.de/pipermail/iaoa-swao/

SWAO SIG Meeting Webpages:
next: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_52
last: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_51

* EduTC Meetings – Technical Committee on Education
next: n.27, March 6, 2018, 15:00 UTC
default dates: 1st Tuesday of each month, 15:00 UTC
EduTC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaTC/TCeducation/TCeducation.php

======================================
STATUS OF FUTURE EVENTS INVOLVING IAOA
======================================

* FOIS 2018 – Formal Ontology in Information Systems and
ISAO 2018 – Interdisciplinary School on Ontological Analysis

FOIS 2018 website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Event dates:
** ISAO: September 10-14 interdisciplinary school
** FOIS: September 17-18 workshops
September 19-21 main conference

Important dates for FOIS:
** Friday, March 2 (workshop/tutorial proposal)
** Thursday, March 15 (workshop/tutorial notification)
** Friday, April 13 (paper submission)
** Wednesday, May 30 (paper notification)
** Sunday, June 24 (camera-ready)

Status:
** FOIS Roles filled:
PC Co-chair: Stefano Borgo ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy
PC Co-chair: Pascal Hitzler Wright State Univ., Dayton, Ohio, USA
Publicity chair: Karl Hammar Jnkping Univ., Sweden
Early Career Symposium Chairs:
Emilio Sanfilippo CNRS, Nantes, France
Maria Hedblom Otto-von-Guericke Univ., Magdeburg, Germany
Zubeida Khan Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa
Local Chair: Maria Keet Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa
General Chair: Oliver Kutz Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

February 2018 Newsletter

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herewith you receive the February 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

 

 

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=====================================

UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

=====================================

 

* AAAI 2018 – 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

February 2-7, New Orleans (Louisiana, USA)

Website: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai18.php

 

*CoCoSym 2018 – Cognitive Computation Symposium: Thinking Beyond Deep Learning

February, 27, London (UK)

Website: http://www.neural-symbolic.org/CoCoSym2018/index.html

 

===========================================================

APPROACHING DEADLINES OF EVENTS ORGANIZED BY IAOA

===========================================================

 

* FOIS 2018 10th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems

September 17-21, Cape Town (South Africa)

 

Deadline for submissions:

***Friday, March 2 (workshop/tutorial proposals submission)

***Friday, April 13 (paper submission)

Website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za

 

 

==========================================================

APPROACHING DEADLINES OF FURTHER EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY

==========================================================

 

 

*UKON 2018 – UK Ontology Network

April 30, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK

 

Deadline for submissions:

***Friday, March 2 (abstract submission)

Website: http://ukontology.org/

 

 

*ICBO 2018 – International Conference on Biomedical Ontology

August 7-10, Corvallis, Oregon, US

 

Deadline for submissions:

***Friday, March 9 (workshops and tutorials proposals submission)

***Wednesday, April 25 (paper, software demo, early career and workshop paper submission)

***Tuesday, May 15 (poster abstract submission)

Website: http://icbo2018.cgrb.oregonstate.edu/

 

 

*ISWC 2018 – International Conference on the Semantic Web

October 8-12, Monterey, California, US

 

Deadline for submissions:

***Friday, March 30 (abstract submission)

***Friday, April 6 (paper submission)

Website: http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/

 

* ISWS 2018 – The International Semantic Web Research Summer School

July, 1-7, Bertinoro, Italy

 

Deadline for applications:

***Saturday, March 31

Website: http://isws2018.semanticwebschool.org/

 

 

 

=============================================

UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES

=============================================

 

* EduTC Meetings – Technical Committee on Education

next: n.26, February 6, 2018, time newly TBD

default dates: newly TBD

EduTC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaTC/TCeducation/TCeducation.php

 

* Executive Council Meeting

next: n.187, February 5, 2018, 14:30 UTC

default dates: bi-weekly, Mondays, time newly TBD

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

 

* SWAO SIG Meetings – Semantic Web Applied Ontology SIG

next: n.51, February 5, 2018, 18:30 UTC

default dates: 1st Monday of each month, 18:30 UTC

Mailing list archive: https://listserv.ovgu.de/pipermail/iaoa-swao/

 

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:

http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_50

 

* Ontology Summit 2018: Sessions continue in January

next: February 7, 2018, 17:00 18:30 UTC

default dates: Wednesdays, 17:00 18:30 UTC

website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2018

 

 

======================================

STATUS OF FUTURE EVENTS INVOLVING IAOA

======================================

 

* FOIS 2018 – Formal Ontology in Information Systems and

ISAO 2018 – Interdisciplinary School on Ontological Analysis

 

Provisional FOIS 2018 website: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za

 

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

 

Event dates:

** ISAO: September 10-14 interdisciplinary school

** FOIS: September 17-18 workshops

September 19-21 main conference

 

Important dates for FOIS:

** Friday, March 2 (workshop/tutorial proposal)

** Thursday, March 15 (workshop/tutorial notification)

** Friday, April 13 (paper submission)

** Wednesday, May 30 (paper notification)

** Sunday, June 24 (camera-ready)

 

Status:

** FOIS Roles filled:

PC Co-chair: Stefano Borgo ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy

PC Co-chair: Pascal Hitzler Wright State Univ., Dayton, Ohio, USA

Publicity chair: Karl Hammar Jnkping Univ., Sweden

Early Career Symposium Chairs:

Emilio Sanfilippo CNRS, Nantes, France

Maria Hedblom Otto-von-Guericke Univ., Magdeburg, Germany

Zubeida Khan Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa

Local Chair: Maria Keet Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa

General Chair: Oliver Kutz Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

FOIS 2018 and ISAO 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa

The 10th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2018) will take place on September 17-21, 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa.

The 4th Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology will take place the preceding week.

 

The first Call for Papers has been issued and can be found at theconference website.

This edition of FOIS is being organized by the following:
General Chair:
Oliver Kutz (KRDB, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Program Chairs:
Stefano Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC CNR Trento IT)
Pascal Hitzler (Data Semantics (DaSe) Laboratory, Wright State University, USA)

Local Organization:
Maria Keet (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

October 2017 Newsletter

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Dear IAOA members,

herewith you receive the October 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

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===========================================
UPCOMING EVENTS SPONSORED/SUPPORTED BY IAOA
===========================================

* 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)

=====================================
UPCOMING EVENTS INVOLVING ONTOLOGY
=====================================

* MEDI 2017 – The 7th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering
October, 4-6, Barcelona (Spain)
Website: http://www.essi.upc.edu/dtim/medi2017/

* Protg Short Course
October, 911, Stanford, California (USA)
Website: http://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse/201710

* IDC 2017- The 11th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing
October, 1113, Belgrade (Serbia)
Website: http://idc2017.pmf.uns.ac.rs

* GCAI 2017 – The 3rd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence
October, 1822, Miami, Florida (USA)
Website: http://easychair.org/smart-program/GCAI2017/

* ISWC 2017 – 16th International Semantic Web Conference
October, 2125, Vienna (Austria)
Website: http://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/

* WOMoCoE 2017 @ ISWC 2017 – 2nd International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution
October, 22, Vienna (Austria)
Website: http://dai.fmph.uniba.sk/events/womocoe2017/

* ODBASE 2017 – The 16th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics
October, 2425, Rhodes (Greece)
Website: http://www.otmconferences.org/index.php/conferences/odbase-2017

* ER 2017 – 36th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
November, 69, Valencia (Spain)
Website: http://er2017.pros.webs.upv.es/

* OntoCoM 2017 @ ER 2017 – 5th International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling
November, 6, Valencia (Spain)
Website: http://er2017.pros.webs.upv.es/ontocom-2017/

* AI*IA 2017 – The 16th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
November, 1417, Bari (Italy)
Website: http://aiia2017.di.uniba.it/

* GenSW 2017 @ AI*IA – 1st International Workshop on “Generalizing knowledge: from Machine Learning and
Knowledge Representation to the Semantic Web”
November, 1417, Bari (Italy)
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/gensw2017/

* ROBOT 2017 [ontology & KR session]
November, 2224, Seville (Spain)
Website: https://grvc.us.es/robot2017/

=============================================
UPCOMING MEETINGS OF IAOA SIGS AND COMMITTEES
=============================================

* Executive Council Meeting n.180, October 10, 2017
EC Webpage: https://www.iaoa.org/iaoaorga/council/council.html

* EduTC Meetings – Technical Committee on Education
date for n.24: week of October 09, day and time TBD
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.48 – October 02, 2017, 18:30 UTC
Mailing list archive: https://listserv.ovgu.de/pipermail/iaoa-swao/

Last SWAO Meeting Webpage:
http://ontologforum.org/index.php/IAOA_SWAO_SIG-confcall_n_47

* Ontology Summit 2018: Research Session during Planning Phase
Date for conference call: October 4, 18:00 19:30 UTC
website: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/OntologySummit2018
confcall: http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2017_10_04

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STATUS OF FUTURE EVENTS INVOLVING IAOA
======================================

* 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: Sep 17-18 workshop days
Sep 19-21 main conference
** ISAO: during the week starting September 10, 2018 (exact date TBC)
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Status:
** IAOA PC chairs approved by the EC:
Stefano Borgo ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy
Pascal Hitzler Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA
Next steps:
** Website setup
** Calls scheduling and announcement

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