From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de  Sun Apr 12 14:26:09 2026
From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:26:09 +0200
Subject: [obml] [Early fees until April 22] ScaDS.AI School on
 Neuro+Symbolic AI - June 22-26, 2026 in Leipzig,
 Germany - 2nd Call for Participation
Message-ID: <83cad06d-3023-48f8-8bc1-0a7ef66691cc@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>

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Visit our website at https://scads.ai/summer-school-2026/ for updates 
since the previous call, e.g. on the scientific and social program, 
accommodation options and how to apply for fee reduction by April 14.
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The Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence 
(ScaDS.AI) Dresden/Leipzig cordially invites you to its 12th 
International Summer School on AI and Big Data.

This year's theme is 'Neuro+Symbolic AI', focusing on an emerging 
paradigm that combines the strengths of neural learning and symbolic 
reasoning, augmented with foundations in each of these.

June 22-26, 2026 | Leipzig, Germany (Radisson Blu Hotel, Augustusplatz)
(in person only, no online participation)

Website: https://scads.ai/summer-school-2026/

Early registration is open until Wednesday, April 22, registration 
overall until June 14 (AoE): https://pretix.eu/infai/SummerSchool2026/
Fee reduction requests received by April 14 will be decided by April 17.



== Invited target audience ==

- Students: PhD and Master's (+ open to Bachelor's)
- Academics: PostDocs and researchers
- Non-Academics: Practitioners from business, industry and society



== What to Expect? ==

The summer school features a rich program of short courses taught by 
leading experts, complemented by hands-on tutorials, interactive 
formats, and invited talks that provide a comprehensive overview of 
recent advances and key achievements in Neuro-Symbolic AI. A poster 
session and social program elements will allow for networking among the 
participants as well as for exploring the lively city of Leipzig.

https://scads.ai/summer-school-2026/scientific-program/
https://scads.ai/summer-school-2026/social-program/



== Speakers ==

- Vaishak Belle     (University of Edinburgh)
- Vincent Derkinderen  (KU Leuven)
- Michael Färber    (TU Dresden)
- Robert Haase      (Leipzig University)
- Pascal Hitzler    (Kansas State University)
- Yujia Hu          (TU Dresden)
- Filip Ilievski    (VU Amsterdam)
- Moa Johansson     (Chalmers University Gothenburg)
- Lalith Manjunath  (TU Dresden)
- Giuseppe Marra    (KU Leuven)
- Alessandra Mileo  (Dublin City University)
- Ostap Okhrin      (TU Dresden)
- Simon Razniewski  (TU Dresden)
- Tobias Schreieder (TU Dresden)
- Daria Stepanova   (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence)
- Marco Valentino   (University of Sheffield)



== Venue ==

Radisson Blu Hotel Leipzig, Augustusplatz 5-6, 04109 Leipzig, Germany

Hotel website: https://radissonblu-leipzig.de/en/



== Fees and Registration ==

Registration is mandatory to attend the school.
It *includes* access to the sessions, lunch, coffee breaks, social 
dinner and some other social items.
It *does not cover* accommodation, breakfast, dinner (except for 
Tuesday) nor any transportation.


  Full Week Tickets:   | Early | Late

   - ScaDS.AI Member   | 490 ? | 600 ?
   - Student           | 510 ? | 620 ?
   - Academic          | 640 ? | 750 ?
   - Non-Academic      | 800 ? | 910 ?

  Day Tickets:         | 225 ? | 225 ?


Early registration until Wednesday, April 22 (AoE) (2 months before)
Late registration until Sunday, June 14 (AoE)      (1 week   before)

Interested students can apply for a fee reduction by submitting a 
statement of motivation (at most ~250 words) and a brief recommendation 
by their supervisor (signed letter or email from supervisor?s account) 
by Tuesday, April 14, to scads.ai.school at uni-leipzig.de .



== Organization ==

  - Scientific Organizers:  Filippo De Bortoli, Parvaneh Joharinad,
                            Frank Loebe, Paramita Mirza, Iryna Okhrin

  - Local Organizers:  Lucy Sonnet, Nicole Spieß

  - Steering Committee:  Jens Meiler, Wolfgang Nagel, Gerik Scheuermann



== Contact ==

Please write to Lucy Sonnet, Leipzig University, via

scads.ai.school at uni-leipzig.de



Best regards,
Frank Loebe
on behalf of the Organizers



-- 
Frank Loebe, Coordinator, ScaDS.AI Graduate School, Leipzig University
Phone: +49 341 97 39350   Email: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de






From ludger.jansen at uni-rostock.de  Thu Apr 16 09:54:01 2026
From: ludger.jansen at uni-rostock.de (Ludger Jansen)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:54:01 +0200
Subject: [obml] =?utf-8?q?=5BExtern=5D_CfP_Foundational_Ontology_Workshop_?=
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Message-ID: <fd2a0184-02a8-40af-a505-abe93ad8685e@uni-rostock.de>

FOUST X - The Anniversary Edition

10th Edition of the Foundational Ontology Workshop, as part of the 12th 
Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2026), held at the 16th International 
Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS)


September 21-25, 2026 ? Vitória, ES, Brazil


Website: https://foust.inf.unibz.it <https://foust.inf.unibz.it/foust-ix/>

Contact: foustworkshop at gmail.com

Workshop paper submission deadline: 3 June 2026

Workshop paper author notification: 15 July 2026

Camera-ready submission: 31 July 2026

Workshop days: between 21-25 September 2026 (co-located with FOIS 2026)


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

About the workshop:

Foundational Ontologies are attempts to systematise very high-level 
categories of thought or reality. In practical terms, they aim to 
understand and formalise the meaning of very general terms, such as 
object, event, property, time, quality, relation, and process. Once 
formalised, these terms provide the top-level categories that, in 
principle, are common to many (if not all) domains of application. 
Consequently, Foundational Ontologies are widely acknowledged as crucial 
tools for tackling system and software interoperability issues. Despite 
this recognition, there is less consensus on the specific entities a 
foundational ontology should cover, its organisational structure, its 
scope, and even its role in relation to more specialised domain 
ontologies. This lack of consensus often reflects deep-rooted debates 
stemming from different philosophical perspectives on reality, mind, and 
language.


Traditionally, FOUST concentrates on a series of topics in foundational 
ontology. This encompasses discussing philosophical foundations, 
presenting new research on specific foundational ontologies, discussing 
existing foundational ontologies, comparing them, and examining their 
relevance to the broader ontological enterprise. FOUST X also welcomes 
presentations of ongoing research and perspectives that encourage 
interdisciplinary dialogue among the diverse subfields of applied ontology.


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

Submissions:

We welcome three types of submissions.

Abstracts for presentation only: 2-3 pages (not included as a paper in 
the proceedings);

Short papers: 6-9 pages;

Full research papers: 10-14 pages.


Submissions must be sent via EasyChair as a single PDF file and should 
be formatted in CEUR 1-column format.

Template: 
https://ceurws.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/ceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-style/ 
<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fceurws.wordpress.com%2F2020%2F03%2F31%2Fceurws-publishes-ceurart-paper-style%2F&data=05%7C02%7Coliver.kutz%40unibz.it%7Cda6fbf8679984e91b24e08dd78062914%7C9251326703e3401a80d4c58ed6674e3b%7C0%7C0%7C638798690043853988%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ooWHVs8CKZ5I7ODOj96ZhV%2FHl0%2FKv7Gmoj6AVLaE9Jg%3D&reserved=0>

Submission link: 
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fois2026<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fois2026>(Please 
select the track WS: FOUST)


Workshops will be submitted for open access publication in a joint CEUR 
proceedings volume within theIAOA series at CEUR 
<http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html>. This series is indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP.


Organisation:

Ludger Jansen ? PTH Brixen College, Bressanone, Italy & University of 
Rostock, Germany

Dilek Yargan ?  FIZ Karlsruhe ? Leibniz Institute for Information 
Infrastructure, Germany


Steering Committee:

Stefano Borgo -  Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy

Oliver Kutz ? Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

-- 
Prof. Dr. Ludger Jansen
Principal Investigator, "Learning from Nature" (DFG)
Adjunct Professor, Institut für Philosophie
Universität Rostock
D-18051 Rostock

Cusanus Chair for Philosophy
Phil.-Theol. Hochschule Brixen|Studio Teologico Accademico Bressanone
Seminarplatz 4|Piazza Seminario
I-39042 Brixen|Bressanone

NEW BOOK 2024
The Ontology of Music Groups. Identity, Persistence, and Agency of Creative Groups
https://www.routledge.com/9781032593142

NOW OPEN ACCESS 2024
Jansen/Smith, "Biomedizinische Ontologie"
https://vdf.ch/biomedizinische-ontologie-1196087001.html

BLOGhttps://biomimetics.hypotheses.org
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From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de  Fri Apr 24 01:51:40 2026
From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe)
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:51:40 +0200
Subject: [obml] [Early fees ext. to May 20] ScaDS.AI School on
 Neuro+Symbolic AI - June 22-26, 2026 in Leipzig,
 Germany - 3rd Call for Participation
Message-ID: <8f57cfb9-e770-4343-8642-5e659232d8ce@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>

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Early bird rates have been extended to May 20 (Wed), hoping to ease 
participation a bit, in response to the global situation with its 
effects on travel and economy. Please visit our website at
https://scads.ai/summer-school-2026/ for updates since previous calls.
----------------------------------------------------------------------


The Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence 
(ScaDS.AI) Dresden/Leipzig cordially invites you to its 12th 
International Summer School on AI and Big Data.

This year's theme is 'Neuro+Symbolic AI', focusing on an emerging 
paradigm that combines the strengths of neural learning and symbolic 
reasoning, augmented with foundations in each of these.

June 22-26, 2026 | Leipzig, Germany (Radisson Blu Hotel, Augustusplatz)
(in person only, no online participation)

Website: https://scads.ai/summer-school-2026/

Early registration is extended until Wednesday, May 20; overall it is 
open until June 14 (AoE): https://pretix.eu/infai/SummerSchool2026/



== Invited Target Audience ==

- Students: PhD and Master's (+ open to Bachelor's)
- Academics: PostDocs and researchers
- Non-Academics: Practitioners from business, industry and society



== What to Expect? ==

The summer school features a rich program of short courses taught by 
leading experts, complemented by hands-on tutorials, interactive 
formats, and invited talks that provide a comprehensive overview of 
recent advances and key achievements in Neuro-Symbolic AI. A poster 
session and social program elements will allow for networking among the 
participants as well as for exploring the lively city of Leipzig.

https://scads.ai/summer-school-2026/scientific-program/
https://scads.ai/summer-school-2026/social-program/



== Speakers ==

- Vaishak Belle     (University of Edinburgh)
- Vincent Derkinderen  (KU Leuven)
- Michael Färber    (TU Dresden)
- Robert Haase      (Leipzig University)
- Pascal Hitzler    (Kansas State University)
- Yujia Hu          (TU Dresden)
- Filip Ilievski    (VU Amsterdam)
- Moa Johansson     (Chalmers University Gothenburg)
- Lalith Manjunath  (TU Dresden)
- Giuseppe Marra    (KU Leuven)
- Alessandra Mileo  (Dublin City University)
- Ostap Okhrin      (TU Dresden)
- Simon Razniewski  (TU Dresden)
- Tobias Schreieder (TU Dresden)
- Daria Stepanova   (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence)
- Marco Valentino   (University of Sheffield)



== Venue ==

Radisson Blu Hotel Leipzig, Augustusplatz 5-6, 04109 Leipzig, Germany

Hotel website: https://radissonblu-leipzig.de/en/

Accommodation options:
https://scads.ai/summer-school-2026/local-information/



== Fees and Registration ==

Registration system:  https://pretix.eu/infai/SummerSchool2026/

Registration is mandatory to attend the school.
It *includes* access to the sessions, lunch, coffee breaks, social 
dinner and some other social items.
It *does not cover* accommodation, breakfast, dinner (except for 
Tuesday) nor any transportation.

  Full Week Tickets:   | Early | Late

   - ScaDS.AI Member   | 490 ? | 600 ?
   - Student           | 510 ? | 620 ?
   - Academic          | 640 ? | 750 ?
   - Non-Academic      | 800 ? | 910 ?

  Day Tickets:         | 225 ? | 225 ?


Early registration until Wednesday, May 20 (AoE) (4.5 weeks before)
Late registration until Sunday, June 14 (AoE)      (1 week  before)



== Organization ==

  - Scientific Organizers:  Filippo De Bortoli, Parvaneh Joharinad,
                            Frank Loebe, Paramita Mirza, Iryna Okhrin

  - Local Organizers:  Lucy Sonnet, Nicole Spieß

  - Steering Committee:  Jens Meiler, Wolfgang Nagel, Gerik Scheuermann



== Contact ==

Please write to Lucy Sonnet, Leipzig University, via

scads.ai.school at uni-leipzig.de



Best regards,
Frank Loebe
on behalf of the Organizers



-- 
Frank Loebe, Coordinator, ScaDS.AI Graduate School, Leipzig University
Phone: +49 341 97 39350   Email: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de






