[PlanetKR] JOWO 2017: 1st Call for Papers (Joint Ontology Workshops, Sep 21-23, Bolzano, Italy)

Sun May 28 00:32:34 EST 2017

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       First Call for Papers
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Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2017)
--- Episode 3: The Tyrolean Autumn ---

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, September 21-23, 2017

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10 Workshops on Ontology and its Applications

http://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2017/

Submission deadlines are around July 15. See the individual workshop 
pages for precise dates.
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The Joint Ontology Workshops' (JOWO) mission is to join forces of the 
diverse communities interested in building, reasoning with, and applying 
formalised ontologies in the wide spectrum of information sciences, 
artificial intelligence theory and applications, philosophy and 
cognitive science, and beyond.

This third edition of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2017) combines 
ten ontology-centered workshops covering a multitude of disciplines into 
an exciting joint event.

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WORKSHOPS

- CREOL: Contextual Representation of Objects and Events in Language
- DAO: Data meets Applied Ontology
- DEW: Ontology Debugging & Evaluation Workshop
- EPINON: Epistemology in Ontologies
- FOMI: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry
- FOUST II: 2nd Workshop on Foundational Ontology
- ISD3: The 3rd Image Schema Day
- ODLS: Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences
- SHAPES 4.0: The Shape of Things
- WINKS: Workshop on Interaction-Based Knowledge Sharing

See below for a description of the workshops and

http://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2017/workshops.html

for links to detailed calls for papers.

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KEYNOTES

* Todd Oakley (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA)
   "What We Think About When We Talk About Money: Social Ontology and 
the Amalgamated Mind"

(further invitations pending)

JOWO 2017 is supported by the International Association for Ontology and 
its Applications - IAOA (http://iaoa.org). It features a series of 
(shared) invited talks, paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, 
and discussions spread across ten workshops.

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please refer to the individual workshops for detailed lists of topics 
appropriate for each workshop and submission modalities.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the program 
committees of the individual workshops. Accepted papers will be made 
available in the form of a single joint workshop proceedings volume 
published open-access at CEUR.

For additional publication plans, check the individual workshops.

For previous proceedings, compare:

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1517/  for JOWO 2015,

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1660/  for JOWO 2016.

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WORKSHOP DETAILS

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CREOL
Website: http://creol2017.di.unito.it/
Contextual Representation of Objects and Events in Language
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Organisers: Valerio Basile, Tommaso Caselli, Daniele P. Radicioni

The CREOL workshop is focused on investigating the relationship between 
representations of objects and events in ontological and linguistic 
resources, and their interpretation in the context of occurrence. 
Different properties of objects and events are activated depending on 
context, thus determining access to partial, salient, information rather 
than to all. Hence, dealing with context is a key factor in the 
conceptualization of human experience, and a major challenge for 
understanding natural language.

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DAO
Website:  https://smart.inf.unibz.it/index.php/2017/05/15/dao2017/
Data meets Applied Ontology
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Organisers: Roberto Confalonieri, Andrea Janes, Diego Calvanese

The goal of the DAO workshop is to provide opportunities for 
participants from academia and industry to present their latest 
developments in ontology-mediated data integration and analysis 
techniques, and data-driven industrial applications. The workshop will 
be a great opportunity to synthesize new insights, and disseminate 
knowledge across field boundaries to promote the interaction between 
these two different communities.

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DEW
Website: http://iaoa.org/jowo/dew2017/
Ontology Debugging & Evaluation Workshop
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Organisers: Rafael Penaloza, Amanda Vizedom

DEW (the Debugging and Evaluation Workshop @ JOWO) aims to advance 
ontology evaluation and the detection, understanding, and correction of 
errors in ontologies and ontological knowledge bases. We encourage 
submissions from all areas dealing with ontological knowledge, and hope 
to gain a broad perspective on evaluation methods, and debugging 
techniques over different formalisms.

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EPINON
Website: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/epinon2017/home.html
Epistemology in Ontologies
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Organisers: Daniele Porello, Antonio Lieto, Claudio Masolo

Formal ontologies and knowledge representation mainly focus on 
characterising how a given domain is structured, i.e., they identify a 
set of concepts, entities, and relations together with the constraints 
that hold for this domain. The characterisation is usually intended to 
reflect the point of view of significant experts or a realist view of 
how things about a particular domain are in reality.
The aim of this workshop is to explore an epistemological stance and 
focus on the assessment of the modelling provided by the ontology 
designer. We aim to address to an interdisciplinary audience, by 
inviting scholars in philosophy, computer science, logic, conceptual 
modelling, knowledge representation, and cognitive science to contribute 
to the discussion.

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FOMI
Website: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/FOMI2017/home.html
8th International Workshop on Formal Ontologies meet Industry
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Organisers: Emilio M. Sanfilippo, Laura Daniele, Giorgio Colombo

FOMI is an international forum where academic researchers and 
practitioners meet to analyse and discuss theoretical and application 
issues related to the use of formal ontologies in industry. The Workshop 
aims to collect lessons learned by the presentation of (1) experience 
with problems in ontology application, (2) new insights on problematic 
issues, (3) new results, successes and observations in ontology 
implementation, (4) lessons learned on the best way to apply ontological 
methodologies to real-world situations.

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FOUST II
Website: http://foust.inf.unibz.it/foust2/
2nd Workshop on Foundational Ontology
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Organisers: Antony Galton, Fabian Neuhaus

Foundational ontologies are attempts to systematise those categories of 
thought or reality which are common to all or almost all 
subject-matters. Commonly considered examples of such categories include 
'object', 'quality', 'function', 'role', 'process', 'event', 'time', and 
'place'. Amongst existing foundational ontologies, there is both a 
substantial measure of agreement and some dramatic disagreements. There 
is currently no uniform consensus concerning how a foundational ontology 
should be organised, how far its 'reach' should be (e.g., is the 
distinction between physical and non-physical entities sufficiently 
fundamental to be included here?), and even what role it should play in 
relation to more specialised domain ontologies. The purpose of this 
workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present work on 
specific foundational ontologies as well as foundational ontologies in 
general and their relations to each other and to the wider ontological 
enterprise.

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ISD3
Website: http://isd.inf.unibz.it
The 3rd Image Schema Day
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Organisers: Maria M. Hedblom, Mihailo Antovic, Oliver Kutz

The Image Schema Day III (ISD3) is intended as an interdisciplinary 
meeting place for researchers interested in image schemas and similar 
conceptual primitives. Originating in cognitive linguistics, image 
schemas are thought to be the conceptual building blocks learned from 
the body’s sensorimotor processes in early infancy that come to shape 
adult language and thought. Today, image schemas are becoming 
increasingly influential in artificial intelligence, knowledge 
representation, and qualitative reasoning. At ISD3 we welcome 
researchers from all disciplines interested in pushing the boundaries of 
understanding, formalising, and reasoning with image schemas.

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ODLS
Website: https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Gruppen/OBML/Workshops/2017-ODLS
Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences
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Organisers: Martin Boeker, Heinrich Herre, Ludger Jansen, Frank Loebe, 
Daniel Schober

Medicine, biology and life sciences produce hardly manageable and 
comprehensible amounts of data, information, and knowledge, thereby 
challenging existing methods of knowledge representation, data bases, 
and data analysis. This interdisciplinary workshop covers the overall 
spectrum of biomedical information processing, from experimental data 
acquisition and data management, across analysis, structuring and 
interpretation of data, up to the development of ontologies with their 
various applications. The workshop aims at gathering scientists that 
work in these fields in order to exchange ideas, to discuss new results 
and to inspire collaborations.

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SHAPES 4.0
Website: http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/workshops/SHAPES4/
The Shape of Things
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Organisers: Rossella Stufano Melone, Inge Hinterwaldner, Stefano Borgo, 
Oliver Kutz, Kris Krois

The SHAPES 4.0 workshop is an interdisciplinary event for the discussion 
of all topics connected to shape and pattern (broadly understood). We 
seek to facilitate an interdisciplinary discussion between researchers, 
practitioners and artists from all disciplines interested in 
representing shape, form, structure and pattern, and reasoning about them.

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WINKS
Website: http://www.iiia.csic.es/winks/
Workshop on Interaction-Based Knowledge Sharing
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Organisers: Jérôme Euzenat, Dagmar Gromann, Kemo Adrian

WINKS is a workshop that is fully dedicated to challenges and solutions 
to knowledge sharing in interaction-based environments, ranging from the 
Internet of Things to multi-agent systems. Gradually expanding, 
distributed systems heighten the need of a dynamic interactive knowledge 
sharing process, while at the same time an increasing heterogeneity of 
resources renders this process more complex. As a highly 
interdisciplinary workshop, discussions will center on requirements and 
suggestions to endow computational models with knowledge sharing 
capabilities in interactive scenarios.

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JOWO General Chairs | Contact

Stefano Borgo (LOA ISTC CNR, Trento, Italy)
Oliver Kutz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Fabian Neuhaus (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany)

Contact: jowo.steering at gmail.com