From karl.h.hammar at gmail.com Wed Jul 4 11:11:26 2018 From: karl.h.hammar at gmail.com (Karl Hammar) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 11:11:26 +0200 Subject: [obml] FOIS 2018: call for registration Message-ID: =================================== The list of FOIS keynotes and talks is now available. Early registration deadline: July 15. ----------------------------------- 10th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) 2018, September 17-21, 2018, Cape Town, South Africa http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/ http://www.iaoa.org/fois/2018.html ----------------------------------- SCOPE The advent of complex information systems which rely on robust, coherent and formal representations of their subject matter, led in the last 25 years to the exploitation of ontological analysis and ontology-based representation. The systematic study of such representations, their axiomatics, their corresponding reasoning techniques and their relations to cognition and reality, are at the center of the modern discipline of formal ontology. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA, website: http://iaoa.org/), which is a non-profit organization aiming to promote interdisciplinary research and international collaboration at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in the applications of ontological analysis to conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering, knowledge management, information-systems development, library and information science, scientific research, and semantic technologies in general. ----------------------------------- KEYNOTES Peter Simons, Trinity College Dublin and University of Salzburg Arianna Betti, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Alessandro Oltramari, Bosch Research and Technology Center, Pittsburgh ----------------------------------- FULL PAPERS Adrien Barton, Olivier Grenier, Ludger Jansen and Jean-Francois Ethier. The identity of dispositions Boyan Brodaric and Michael Gruninger. Particular Types and Particular Dependence Roberta Ferrario, Claudio Masolo and Daniele Porello. Organisations as complex variable embodiments Antony Galton. The Treatment of Time in Upper Ontologies Aldo Gangemi, Mehwish Alam and Valentina Presutti. Amnestic Forgery: an Ontology of Conceptual Metaphors Michael Gruninger, Bahar Aameri, Carmen Chui, Torsten Hahmann and Yi Ru. Foundational Ontologies for Units of Measure Torsten Hahmann. On Decomposition Operations in Multidimensional Qualitative Space Henriette Harmse, Katarina Britz and Aurona Gerber. Informative Armstrong RDF Datasets for n-ary Relations C. Maria Keet and Langa Khumalo. On the ontology of part-whole relations in Zulu language and culture Joćo Rafael Moraes Nicola and Giancarlo Guizzardi. A formal characterization of individual determinancy and universal sortality in the Unified Foundational Ontology Claudio Masolo and Daniele Porello. A compact representation of complex concepts Claudio Masolo and Laure Vieu. Graph-Based Approaches to Structural Universals and Complex States of Affairs Joao Moreira, Luis Ferreira Pires, Marten van Sinderen and Laura M. Daniele. SAREF4health: IoT standard-based ontology-driven healthcare systems Tiago Prince Sales, Daniele Porello, Giancarlo Guizzardi, John Mylopoulos and Nicola Guarino. Ontological Foundations of Competition SHORT PAPERS Pawel Garbacz, Bogumi? Szady and Agnieszka ?awrynowicz. Identity criteria for localities Oliver Kutz, Nicolas Troquard, Maria Hedblom and Daniele Porello. The Mouse and the Ball: Towards a cognitively-based and ontologically-grounded logic of agency Alessandro Mosca, Fernando Roda and Guillem Rull. UNiCS: The ontology for Research and Innovation policy making Emilio Sanfilippo, Loic Jeanson, Farouk Belkadi, Florent Laroche and Alain Bernard. Nominal and actual qualities in ontologies for engineering Stefan Schulz and Ludger Jansen. Towards an ontology of religious and spiritual belief ----------------------------------- SATELLITE ACTIVITIES FOIS 2018 includes a number of additional activities: http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=54 Notably: - JOWO Workshops and tutorials: http://www.iaoa.org/jowo2018/ - 4th International School on Applied Ontology: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/ - Early Career Symposium - Ontology Competition ----------------------------------- ORGANISATION 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) From karl.h.hammar at gmail.com Wed Jul 4 11:15:12 2018 From: karl.h.hammar at gmail.com (Karl Hammar) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 11:15:12 +0200 Subject: [obml] [CfP] ISAO 2018 - Call for Participation Message-ID: ISAO 2018 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ****Early registration deadline: 15 July***** The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) and the University of Cape Town, South Africa are proud to announce the Fourth Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO) September 10-15, 2018 -- Cape Town, South Africa http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/ Description ----------- World-class experts in different disciplines (Applied Ontology, Biomedical Ontology, Logic and Philosophy, Conceptual Modeling, Semantic Technologies) will meet for a week with students, researchers and practitioners, to offer courses in complementary aspects of Applied Ontology. The school will be a full immersion experience in ontology, where lecturers engage in open discussions with each other, interact with the participants, and supervise micro-projects addressing Applied Ontology problems. ISAO will take place in the beautiful city of Cape Town, South Africa, and is open to students, researchers and practitioners. Previous schools were held in * 2016 - Bozen/Bolzano, Italy http://isao2016.inf.unibz.it/ * 2014 - Vitoria, Brazil http://iaoa.org/isao2014/ * 2012 - Trento, Italy http://iaoa.org/isao2012/ Program ------- The following lecturers are already confirmed: * Maureen Donnelly, University of Buffalo, New York, USA (Mereology, Location, and Time) * Stefan Schulz, Medical University of Graz, Austria (Biomedical Ontology) * Peter Simons, Trinity College Dublin and University of Salzburg * Arina Britz, Stellenbosch University, South Africa (First-order Logic and Description Logics) * Maria Keet, University of Cape Town, South Africa (Semantics and Conceptual Modelling) Registration ------------ Registration to the school is on a first-come first-served basis. Check the registration page for details: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/registration.html Reduced registration fees are available for IAOA members. For information on membership, benefits and how to join, please see: http://iaoa.org/membership/membership.html Organization ------------ International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) http://iaoa.org/ Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa https://www.cs.uct.ac.za/ General chair: Aldo Gangemi Programme chair: Antony Galton Local organisation: Maria Keet, with Zubeida Khan, Zola Mahlaza, and Michael Harrison Contact: Website: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/ General inquiries: aldo.gangemi at unibo.it local inquiries: mkeet at cs.uct.ac.za