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[CfP] [CoKA] : "Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition: Challenges, Opportunities, and Use Cases" workshop at CONCEPTS 2024

by Tom Hanika

***CoKA: Call for Contributions*** ================================================================ Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition: Challenges, Opportunities, and Use Cases Workshop at the 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures (CONCEPTS 2024) September 9–13 2024, Cádiz, Spain Workshop Website: https://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/coka/ Conference website: https://concepts2024.uca.es ================================================================ Formal concept analysis (FCA) can help make sense of data and the underlying domain --- provided the data is not too big, not too noisy, representative of the domain, and if there is data in the first place. What if you don’t have such data readily available but are prepared to invest in collecting it and have access to domain experts or other reliable queryable sources of information? Conceptual exploration comes to the rescue! Conceptual exploration is a family of knowledge-acquisition techniques within FCA. The goal is to build a complete implicational theory of a domain (with respect to a fixed language) by posing queries to a domain expert. When properly implemented, it is a great tool that can help organize the process of scientific discovery. Unfortunately, proper implementations are scarce and success stories of using conceptual exploration are somewhat rare and limited in scope. With this workshop, we intend to analyze the situation and, maybe, find a solution. If - you succeeded in acquiring new knowledge about or building a satisfying conceptual representation of some domain with conceptual exploration before; - you attempted conceptual exploration in application to your problem but failed miserably; - you want to use conceptual exploration to analyze some domain, but you don’t know where and how to start; - you are aware of alternatives to conceptual exploration; then come to the workshop to share your experiences, insights, ideas, and concerns with us! ================== Keywords and Topics ================== Knowledge Acquisition and Capture Conceptual Exploration Design Patterns and Paradigmatic Examples successful use cases and real-world applications challenges and lessons learned application principles missing theoretical foundations missing technical infrastructure integration with other theories and technologies ========================= Duration, Format, and Dates ========================= We invite contributions in the form of an extended abstract of up to two pages. In addition, supplementary material, such as data sets, detailed descriptions, or visualizations, may be submitted. The workshop is planned for half a day within the conference dates and at the same venue. It will consist of several short presentations each followed by a plenary discussion. Please send your contributions until *July 10, 2024* to tom.hanika(a)uni-hildesheim.de. If you are not sure whether your contribution matches the topics or the format of the workshop, you are welcome to contact the organizers prior to submitting the abstract. An acceptance notification will be sent within two weeks upon receiving the submission. =================== Workshop Organizers =================== - Tom Hanika, University of Hildesheim - Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden - Bernhard Ganter, Ernst-Schröder-Zentrum, Darmstadt -- Dr. Tom Hanika Universität Kassel Tel.: +49 (0) 561 804 6252 https://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/hanika ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Last CFP CONCEPTS 2024 - Cádiz (Spain) **deadline extension**

by Sebastien Ferre

/* Apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP./ / / /* Please kindly forward to those who may be interested./ *1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures* *Cádiz (Spain) - September**, 9th-13th, 2024 * *http://concepts2024.uca.es/* <https://concepts2024.uca.es/> * *** Last Call for Papers - deadline extension*** CONCEPTS 2024 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures 28th Intl. Conf. on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) 18th Intl. Conf. on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA) 17th Intl. Conf. on Concept Lattices and their Applications (CLA) September 9–13 2024, Cádiz, Spain Website:https://concepts2024.uca.es <https://concepts2024.uca.es> Email contact address: concepts24(a)lists.cs.uni-kassel.de <mailto:concepts24@lists.cs.uni-kassel.de> The 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures (CONCEPTS) is a merger of the three conferences CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA, which have been essential venues for researchers and practitioners working on theoretical and applied aspects of formal concept analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge, as well as closely related areas, such as data mining, information retrieval, knowledge management and discovery. This new conference aims to continue the tradition and standards of previous conferences and become a key annual meeting to take along all members of the three communities of CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA and to keep abreast of the advances and new challenges in the field. Main topics include but are not limited to - Formal concept analysis: concept lattices, implications, algorithms and computational complexity - Conceptual graphs, graph-based models for human reasoning - Knowledge spaces and learning spaces - Ontologies, semantic web, knowledge graphs - Conceptual structures in natural language processing and linguistics - Conceptual knowledge acquisition and management - Conceptual knowledge discovery, data analysis, and visualization - Probabilistic approaches to conceptual knowledge representation and knowledge discovery - Approximation techniques in application to conceptual structures - Bridging conceptual structures to information sciences, artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, database theory, software engineering, and other areas of computer science - Understanding real-world data and modeling real-world phenomena with conceptual structures Submission details: Submissions are invited on significant, original (previously unpublished) research on the topics of the conference: * * * /*journal-track papers up to 26 pages*//(submission closed)/ ** * regular papers up to 16 pages and short papers up to 8 pages, to be published by Springer in the LNAI series as a proceedings volume. All submissions will be subject to single-blind peer review. Accepted papers have to be presented at the conference on-site. Therefore, at least one author per paper has to register timely and attend the conference on-site. Important dates and submission instructions: ***Regular and short papers*** - Abstract submission: March 25, 2024 (extended dealine)(AoE) - Full paper submission: April 2, 2024 (extended deadline)(AoE) - Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due: May 30, 2024 Submission link: https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/CONCEPTS2024 <https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/CONCEPTS2024>. Please select the appropriate category for your submitted manuscript, “regular paper” or “short paper”. Please visit the page Information for authors <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>on Springer's website for templates and formatting style. Organization: _General and Conference Chair:_ Jesús Medina, University of Cádiz, Spain _Program Chairs:_ Inma P. Cabrera, University of Málaga, Spain Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany _Local organizer Committee:_ María José Benítez Caballero, University of Cádiz, Spain Fernando Chacón-Gómez, University of Cádiz, Spain Samuel José Molina Ruiz, University of Cádiz, Spain Francisco José Ocaña Alcázar, University of Cádiz, Spain _Executive Board: _ Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain Radim Belohlavek, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic Tanya Braun, University of Münster, Germany Madalina Croitoru, University of Montpellier, France Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France Sergei Kuznetsov, HSE University, Moscow, Russia Rokia Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, University of Malaga, Spain Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany _Program Committee:_ ** Cristina Alcalde, University of Basque Country, Spain Alexandre Bazin, LIRMM, Montpellier, France Sadok Ben Yahia, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Karell Bertet, La Rochelle University, France Peggy Cellier, IRISA/INSA Rennes, France Pablo Cordero, University of Málaga, Spain Maria Eugenia Cornejo Piñero, University of Cádiz, Spain Miguel Couceiro, University of Lorraine, France Christophe Demko, La Rochelle University, France Xavier Dolques, Université de Strasbourg, France Bernhard Ganter, Ernst-Schröder--Zentrum für Begriffliche Wissensverarbeitung e.V., Darmstadt, Germany Mohamed Hamza Ibrahim, University of Quebec in Outaouais, Canada Tom Hanika, University of Kassel, Germany Dmitry Ignatov, HSE University, Moscow, Russia Jan Konecny, Palace University Olomouc, Czech Republic Francesco Kriegel, TU Dresden, Germany Markus Krötzsch, TU Dresden, Germany Leonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Florence Le Ber, University of Strasbourg, France Domingo López-Rodríguez, University of Málaga, Spain Pierre Martin, University of Montpellier, France Jesús Medina, University of Cádiz, Spain Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, University Clermont Auvergne, France Jan Outrata, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic Eloisa Ramírez-Poussa, University of Cádiz, Spain Sebastian Rudolph, TU Dresden, Germany Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Baris Sertkaya, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany Henry Soldano, Université Paris 13, France Martín Trnecka, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic Petko Valtchev, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Francisco J. Valverde-Albacete, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain * We look forward to meeting you in Cádiz. Please, feel free to contact us for any further information. Sincerely yours, *Inma P. Cabrera, Sébastien Ferré, Sergei Obiedkov* *CONCEPTS 2024 Program chairs*

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[FOIS2024][CfP] FOIS 2024 deadline extension main track: 18 March 2024 (AoE)

by Cassia TROJAHN

(Apologies for cross postings) [FOIS2024][CfP] FOIS 2024 deadline extension main track NEWS: - new deadline submission: 18 March 2024 (AoE) ============================ 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024) 15-19 July 2024 (Enschede, Netherlands) - 08-09 July 2024 (online) Website: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/ Paper submission deadline (extended): 04 March 2024 (AoE) ============================ **Definition & scope** The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers interested in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations comprising the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. The conference encourages the submission of high-quality, not previously published results on both theoretical issues and practical advancements. FOIS 2024 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA), a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology. FOIS 2024 will be held both online and in Enschede, the Netherlands, by the Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services group of the University of Twente. **Submission types** FOIS 2024 seeks three types of full-length (14 pages) high-quality papers on a wide range of topics: * Foundational papers address content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, and their relevance to some aspect of information systems. * Application and Methods papers address novel systems, methods, and tools related to building, evaluating, or using ontologies, emphasizing the impact of ontology contents. * Domain ontology papers describe a novel ontology for a specific realm of interest, clarifying ontological choices against requirements and foundational theory, and showing ontology use. For more information on the submission instructions, please visit: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/calls/#submission-instructions As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press. **Topics of interest** Foundational Issues: * Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts, events/processes * Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation * Vagueness and granularity * Space, time, and change Methodological issues: * Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies * Role of reference ontologies * Ontology similarity, integration, alignment, matching and entity reconciliation * Ontology modularity, patterns, and contextuality * Ontology evaluation, quality, reuse, adaptation, and evolution * Ontology compliance with FAIR principles * Formal comparison among ontologies * Relationship between conceptual modeling and ontologies * Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, and context * Connections between knowledge graphs and ontologies * Methodological issues in the applications of ontologies * Social issues, such as trust or bias, with respect to ontologies Applications: * Technical applications of ontologies, such as: * Semantic Web * Other areas of AI (Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Rules) * Qualitative modeling * Systems applications of ontologies, such as: * Ontology-driven information systems design * Ontology-based data access * Knowledge managementInformation retrieval * Computational linguistics * Metadata management * Domain applications of ontologies, such as: * Ontologies for business modeling * Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics, etc.) * Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture, etc. * Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, etc. * Ontologies for the social sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology, etc. * Ontologies for Open Science and dataset sharing Domain-specific ontologies: * Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, etc.) * Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells, etc.) * Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions, cognition, etc.) * Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles * Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, etc.) **Organisation** General Chairs Giancarlo Guizzardi; University of Twente; The Netherlands Program Committee Chairs Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France Daniele Porello, University of Genova, Italy Local Organisation Chair Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, The Netherlands JOWO Chairs Claudenir M. Fonseca, University of Twente, The Netherlands Guendalina Righetti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Online Chairs Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK FAIR Chairs Luiz Olavo Bonino, University of Twente, The Netherlands Journal-first Chairs Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Italy Adrien Barton, IRIT & CNRS, France Ontology Showcase Chairs Laura Daniele, TNO, The Netherlands João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil Demonstration Chairs Pawel Garbacz, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Project Exhibition Chair Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden Industry Chairs Jan Voskuil, Taxonic, The Netherlands Mara Abel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Tutorial Chairs Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Veruska Zamborlini, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil Early Career Symposium Chairs Zubeida Dawood, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa Pedro Paulo F. Barcelos, University of Twente, The Netherlands Publicity Chairs Mattia Fumagalli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Greta Adamo, Basque Centre for Climate Change, Spain Proceedings Chairs Pedro Paulo F. Barcelos, University of Twente, The Netherlands

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FCA-book 2nd ed. preview

by Bernhard Ganter

The book "Formal Concept Analysis -- Mathematical Foundations" is to receive a second, expanded edition. A first version is available, and it would help me if some colleagues could look at it and let me know what they think. It's not just about typos or math errors. You are also welcome to check whether your contributions have been taken into account and are cited correctly. If you are interested, please e-mail me to bernhard.ganter(a)tu-dresden.de In coordination with the publisher, I will then send you a personalized pdf and hope for your feedback. Kind regards, Bernhard Ganter

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3rd CFP CONCEPTS 2024 - Cádiz (Spain)

by Sebastien Ferre

/* Apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP./ / / /* Please kindly forward to those who may be interested./ *1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures* *Cádiz (Spain) - September**, 9th-13th, 2024 * *http://concepts2024.uca.es/* <https://concepts2024.uca.es/> * *** 3rd Call for Papers *** CONCEPTS 2024 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures 28th Intl. Conf. on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) 18th Intl. Conf. on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA) 17th Intl. Conf. on Concept Lattices and their Applications (CLA) September 9–13 2024, Cádiz, Spain Website:https://concepts2024.uca.es <https://concepts2024.uca.es> Email contact address: concepts24(a)lists.cs.uni-kassel.de <mailto:concepts24@lists.cs.uni-kassel.de> The 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures (CONCEPTS) is a merger of the three conferences CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA, which have been essential venues for researchers and practitioners working on theoretical and applied aspects of formal concept analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge, as well as closely related areas, such as data mining, information retrieval, knowledge management and discovery. This new conference aims to continue the tradition and standards of previous conferences and become a key annual meeting to take along all members of the three communities of CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA and to keep abreast of the advances and new challenges in the field. Main topics include but are not limited to - Formal concept analysis: concept lattices, implications, algorithms and computational complexity - Conceptual graphs, graph-based models for human reasoning - Knowledge spaces and learning spaces - Ontologies, semantic web, knowledge graphs - Conceptual structures in natural language processing and linguistics - Conceptual knowledge acquisition and management - Conceptual knowledge discovery, data analysis, and visualization - Probabilistic approaches to conceptual knowledge representation and knowledge discovery - Approximation techniques in application to conceptual structures - Bridging conceptual structures to information sciences, artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, database theory, software engineering, and other areas of computer science - Understanding real-world data and modeling real-world phenomena with conceptual structures Submission details: Submissions are invited on significant, original (previously unpublished) research on the topics of the conference: * journal-track papers up to 26 pages, to be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) <https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-approximate-…>; * regular papers up to 16 pages and short papers up to 8 pages, to be published by Springer in the LNAI series as a proceedings volume. All submissions will be subject to single-blind peer review. Accepted papers have to be presented at the conference on-site. Therefore, at least one author per paper has to register timely and attend the conference on-site. Important dates and submission instructions: ***Journal-track submissions*** - Full paper submission: March 17, 2024 (AoE) - Paper reviews sent to authors: May 3, 2024 - Revised submission: June 3, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2024 Manuscripts must be submitted via the International Journal of Approximate Reasoningonline submission system (Editorial Manager®): https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/ija/default2.aspx <https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/ija/default2.aspx> Please select the article type “VSI: CONCEPTS 2024” when submitting your manuscript online. Please refer to the Guide for Authorsto prepare your manuscript: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-approximate-reas… <https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-approximate-reas…> See also LaTeX instructions: https://www.elsevier.com/researcher/author/policies-and-guidelines/latex-in… <https://www.elsevier.com/researcher/author/policies-and-guidelines/latex-in…>. ***Regular and short papers*** - Abstract submission: March 18, 2024 (AoE) - Full paper submission: March 25, 2024 (AoE) - Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due: May 30, 2024 Submission link: https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/CONCEPTS2024 <https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/CONCEPTS2024>. Please select the appropriate category for your submitted manuscript, “regular paper” or “short paper”. Please visit the page Information for authors <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>on Springer's website for templates and formatting style. Organization: _General and Conference Chair:_ Jesús Medina, University of Cádiz, Spain _Program Chairs:_ Inma P. Cabrera, University of Málaga, Spain Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany _Local organizer Committee:_ María José Benítez Caballero, University of Cádiz, Spain Fernando Chacón-Gómez, University of Cádiz, Spain Samuel José Molina Ruiz, University of Cádiz, Spain Francisco José Ocaña Alcázar, University of Cádiz, Spain _Executive Board: _ Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain Radim Belohlavek, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic Tanya Braun, University of Münster, Germany Madalina Croitoru, University of Montpellier, France Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France Sergei Kuznetsov, HSE University, Moscow, Russia Rokia Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, University of Malaga, Spain Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany _Program Committee:_ Alexandre Bazin, LIRMM, Montpellier, France Karell Bertet, La Rochelle University, France Peggy Cellier, IRISA/INSA Rennes, France Maria Eugenia Cornejo Piñero, University of Cádiz, Spain Christophe Demko, La Rochelle University, France Xavier Dolques, Université de Strasbourg, France Bernhard Ganter, Ernst-Schröder--Zentrum für Begriffliche Wissensverarbeitung e.V., Darmstadt, Germany Mohamed Hamza Ibrahim, University of Quebec in Outaouais, Canada Tom Hanika, University of Kassel, Germany Dmitry Ignatov, HSE University, Moscow, Russia Francesco Kriegel, TU Dresden, Germany Markus Krötzsch, TU Dresden, Germany Leonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Pierre Martin, University of Montpellier, France Jesús Medina, University of Cádiz, Spain Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, University Clermont Auvergne, France Jan Outrata, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic Sebastian Rudolph, TU Dresden, Germany Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Baris Sertkaya, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany Henry Soldano, Université Paris 13, France Petko Valtchev, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada * We look forward to meeting you in Cádiz. Please, feel free to contact us for any further information. Sincerely yours, *Inma P. Cabrera, Sébastien Ferré, Sergei Obiedkov* *CONCEPTS 2024 Program chairs*

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[FOIS2024][CfP] FOIS 2024 deadline extension main track: final deadline submission: 04 March 2024 (AoE)

by Cassia TROJAHN

(Apologies for cross postings) [FOIS2024][CfP] FOIS 2024 deadline extension main track NEWS: - final deadline submission: 04 March 2024 (AoE) - abstracts were not mandatory on 26 February 2024 (AoE)!!! ============================ 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024) 15-19 July 2024 (Enschede, Netherlands) - 08-09 July 2024 (online) Website: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/ Paper submission deadline (extended): 04 March 2024 (AoE) ============================ **Definition & scope** The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers interested in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations comprising the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. The conference encourages the submission of high-quality, not previously published results on both theoretical issues and practical advancements. FOIS 2024 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA), a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology. FOIS 2024 will be held both online and in Enschede, the Netherlands, by the Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services group of the University of Twente. **Important dates** Paper submission deadline (extended): 04 March 2024 (AoE) Notifications: 15 April 2024 Virtual conference: 8-9 July 2024 Onsite conference: 15-19 July 2024 Camera-ready papers: 30 July 2024 **Submission types** FOIS 2024 seeks three types of full-length (14 pages) high-quality papers on a wide range of topics: * Foundational papers address content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, and their relevance to some aspect of information systems. * Application and Methods papers address novel systems, methods, and tools related to building, evaluating, or using ontologies, emphasizing the impact of ontology contents. * Domain ontology papers describe a novel ontology for a specific realm of interest, clarifying ontological choices against requirements and foundational theory, and showing ontology use. For more information on the submission instructions, please visit: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/calls/#submission-instructions As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press. **Topics of interest** Foundational Issues: * Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts, events/processes * Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation * Vagueness and granularity * Space, time, and change Methodological issues: * Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies * Role of reference ontologies * Ontology similarity, integration, alignment, matching and entity reconciliation * Ontology modularity, patterns, and contextuality * Ontology evaluation, quality, reuse, adaptation, and evolution * Ontology compliance with FAIR principles * Formal comparison among ontologies * Relationship between conceptual modeling and ontologies * Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, and context * Connections between knowledge graphs and ontologies * Methodological issues in the applications of ontologies * Social issues, such as trust or bias, with respect to ontologies Applications: * Technical applications of ontologies, such as: * Semantic Web * Other areas of AI (Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Rules) * Qualitative modeling * Systems applications of ontologies, such as: * Ontology-driven information systems design * Ontology-based data access * Knowledge managementInformation retrieval * Computational linguistics * Metadata management * Domain applications of ontologies, such as: * Ontologies for business modeling * Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics, etc.) * Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture, etc. * Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, etc. * Ontologies for the social sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology, etc. * Ontologies for Open Science and dataset sharing Domain-specific ontologies: * Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, etc.) * Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells, etc.) * Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions, cognition, etc.) * Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles * Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, etc.) **Organisation** General Chairs Giancarlo Guizzardi; University of Twente; The Netherlands Program Committee Chairs Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France Daniele Porello, University of Genova, Italy Local Organisation Chair Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, The Netherlands JOWO Chairs Claudenir M. Fonseca, University of Twente, The Netherlands Guendalina Righetti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Online Chairs Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK FAIR Chairs Luiz Olavo Bonino, University of Twente, The Netherlands Journal-first Chairs Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Italy Adrien Barton, IRIT & CNRS, France Ontology Showcase Chairs Laura Daniele, TNO, The Netherlands João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil Demonstration Chairs Pawel Garbacz, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Project Exhibition Chair Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden Industry Chairs Jan Voskuil, Taxonic, The Netherlands Mara Abel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Tutorial Chairs Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Veruska Zamborlini, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil Early Career Symposium Chairs Zubeida Dawood, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa Pedro Paulo F. Barcelos, University of Twente, The Netherlands Publicity Chairs Mattia Fumagalli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Greta Adamo, Basque Centre for Climate Change, Spain Proceedings Chairs Pedro Paulo F. Barcelos, University of Twente, The Netherlands

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CfWT- CONCEPTS2024. Deadline February 28, 2024

by Dominik Dürrschnabel

/* Apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP./ /* Please kindly forward to those who may be interested./ *Call for Workshops and Tutorials* *1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures* *Cádiz (Spain) - September**, 9th-13th, 2024 * *https://* <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/iwann.uma.es/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Tl9MNQGOCnm…>*concepts2024.uca.es* <https://concepts2024.uca.es/>*/* <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/iwann.uma.es/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Tl9MNQGOCnm…> The 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures (CONCEPTS) is a merger of the three conferences CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA, which have been essential venues for researchers and practitioners working on theoretical and applied aspects of formal concept analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge, as well as closely related areas, such as data mining, information retrieval, knowledge management and discovery. This new conference aims to continue the tradition and standards of previous conferences and become a key annual meeting to take along all members of the three communities of CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA and to keep abreast of the advances and new challenges in the field. Main topics include but are not limited to: - Formal concept analysis: concept lattices, implications, algorithms and computational complexity - Conceptual graphs, graph-based models for human reasoning - Knowledge spaces and learning spaces - Ontologies, semantic web, knowledge graphs - Conceptual structures in natural language processing and linguistics - Conceptual knowledge acquisition and management - Conceptual knowledge discovery, data analysis, and visualization - Probabilistic approaches to conceptual knowledge representation and knowledge discovery - Approximation techniques in application to conceptual structures - Bridging conceptual structures to information sciences, artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, database theory, software engineering, and other areas of computer science - Understanding real-world data and modeling real-world phenomena with conceptual structures. *_Workshops and Tutorials_* We cordially invite you to submit proposals for both*workshops and tutorial* in current and emerging research lines in (or related to) the main topics of CONCEPTS (https://concepts2024.uca.es/cfp/). The workshops and tutorials provide an opportunity to discuss novel topics in an interactive atmosphere. They can concentrate in-depth on research topics, but can also be devoted to application issues. Proposals will be submitted by email to concepts2024(a)uca.es. Workshops and tutorials will be scheduled on September 9-10, 2024. *_Submissions _* Workshops and tutorials proposal: February 28, 2024. Notification of acceptance workshops and tutorials: March 4, 2024. __ *_General and Conference Chair_**__* Jesús Medina, University of Cádiz, Spain *_Program Chairs_* Inma P. Cabrera, University of Málaga, Spain Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany *_Workshops and Tutorials chair_* Eloísa Ramírez Poussa, University of Cádiz, Spain *_Executive Board_* Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain Radim Belohlavek, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic Tanya Braun, University of Münster, Germany Madalina Croitoru, University of Montpellier, France Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France Sergei Kuznetsov, HSE University, Moscow, Russia Rokia Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, University of Malaga, Spain Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany You can find extended information on CONCEPTS24 web page: https://concepts2024.uca.es/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/iwann.uma.es/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Tl9MNQGOCnm…> or contact us at concepts2024(a)uca.es. We look forward to meeting you in Cádiz. Please, feel free to contact us for any further information. Also, submissions for papers for the journal track (deadline on March 6) and the regular track (deadline on March 25) are still open. For more information, see the CONCEPTS website: https://concepts2024.uca.es/submissions/ Sincerely yours, *Eloísa Ramírez Poussa* *CONCEPTS 2024 Workshops and Tutorials chair.*

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CfP: 3rd Onto4FAIR Workshop at Semantics 2023 (deadline extension 21/07)

by Cassia TROJAHN

** With apologies for multiple posting ** -------------- Onto4FAIR Workshop at Semantics 2023 -------------- 3rd Workshop on Ontologies for FAIR and FAIR Ontologies (Onto4FAIR), in conjunction with Semantics 2023, 20 September 2023, Leipzig, Germany This is a twin workshop proposal at both FOIS 2023 and Semantics 2023 conferences. The primary aim is to bring the gap between the scientific and the practitioner/industry sides, respectively, where we would take the greatest and latest advances in the state of the art to industry and bring back the practitioners' needs and challenges to the scientific community of figure out a solution. For more details please check the website: https://onto4fair.github.io/2023-semantics.html -------------- Presentation -------------- Making the resources produced by researchers fully reusable and understood requires specific efforts. The Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) principles were elaborated to address these issues, describing a set of requirements for resource reusability and interoperability. These principles have been gaining increasing attention in a range of different areas and applications. One the one hand, a key aspect is the ability of properly and semantically describing resources, in particular with the help of ontologies. On the other hand, ontologies themselves have to be compliant with the FAIR principles. The workshop has the following main goals: (i) to bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to discuss the adoption of FAIR principles in research and real-world requirements. (ii) to serve to inform about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. (iii) to investigate how the FAIR principles are supported by the use of ontologies that ideally are themselves FAIR. (iv) to discuss the challenges and perspectives in adopting FAIR principles. -------------- Workshop topics -------------- The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - schemes, ontologies and vocabulaires for FAIR data and metadata; - domain and cross-domain ontologies for FAIR data; - making vocabularies and ontologies FAIR; - alignment of schemes, vocabulaires and ontologies for FAIR; - data management for FAIR data; - best practices for implementing the FAIR principles; - FAIRification process and use cases; - metrics for FAIRness assessment; - provenance in FAIR environments; - FAIR principles and open science; - FAIR principles and linked open data; - FAIR in industry, scientific communities (life science, digital humanities, health, smart cities, etc.). -------------- Important dates -------------- - Workshop paper submission deadline: July 21, 2023 (extended) - Author notification: August 07, 2023 - Camera-ready version: August 28, 2023 -------------- Submissions -------------- - Full research papers: 12 pages (including references) - Short papers: 6 pages (including references) Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style of IOS Press template. -------------- Workshop Chairs -------------- - Cassia Trojahn, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France - Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, University of Twente and Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands - Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, the Netherlands - Clement Jonquet, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, Mathematics, Informatics and STatistics for Environment and Agronomy research unit, Montpellier, France Best regards Cassia Trojahn

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Request for Comments: a repository for formal contexts

by Robert Jäschke

Dear friends of FCA, This mail got longer than anticipated. In short: I propose to create a repository of formal contexts with machine-readable metadata. You can find a initial draft here: https://github.com/fcatools/contexts The long story: Sometimes it would be helpful to have exemplary formal contexts readily available, for example, for illustrational purposes, for testing algorithms, for benchmarking, or for beginners to explore and learn FCA. However, I have not found a comprehensive repository of example formal contexts. I know that Uta Priss has some classic contexts on her web page (https://upriss.github.io/fca/examples.html) and some FCA tools have contexts for unit tests (e.g., https://github.com/tomhanika/conexp-clj/tree/dev/testing-data) but these are neither comprehensive nor easy to find, they have no machine-readable metadata, they are not integrated into FCA tools or libraries, and they are sometimes difficult to cite. What I would like to have for FCA is what popular data science libraries provide. For example, scikit-learn (https://scikit-learn.org/) has some basic datasets (https://scikit-learn.org/stable/datasets/toy_dataset.html) included which can be accessed with just one line of Python code: iris = datasets.load_iris() Similarly, Seaborn's load_dataset() method loads datasets from a git repository (https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn-data). As there are many frequently-used exemplary formal contexts, I suggest to create a git-based repository which contains such contexts together with machine-readable metadata that describes them. I'd like to follow the KISS principle and not over-engineer the whole thing, that is, 1. Each context is just a file in a git repository (suitable file formats are open for discussion, IMHO at least CTX). 2. The metadata for each context is described in file that is machine-readable and human-editable. My impression is that a stripped-down version of YAML would be sufficient (that is, just hierarchical key-value pairs). An initial draft of such a repository can be found here: https://github.com/fcatools/contexts Using Git(Hub) has some benefits, for example, version control, a workflow for collaboration and contributions (forks, pull requests), a continous integration pipeline for the automatic generation of derivatives (e.g., human-readable documentation, statistics, lattice diagrams), simple programmatic access using HTTP, etc. (I am aware of research data repositories but I think they are not the best choice for what I have in mind. Still, snapshots of the git repo could regularly be published, e.g., on Zenodo, which supports GitHub.) The repository could easily be integrated into FCA workflows, tools, and libraries and could simplify the (re)use of FCA (data). Specifically, I'd like to support maintainers of FCA tools and libraries to integrate access to the repository such that getting a context is as simple as it is with other data in scikit-learn or Seaborn. With a bit more time and effort more would be possible, for example, a browseable repository of contexts like http://konect.cc/ provides for (social) networks. Next steps towards the abovementioned goals would be: 1. gather feedback from the community 2. develop a curation policy and metadata schema 2. collect contexts and metadata 4. reach out to authors of FCA tools and libraries I'd be very glad to get the discussion started and read your comments. Best regards, Robert Jäschke -- Prof. Dr. Robert Jäschke Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin < https://hu.berlin/RJ >>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<< +49 (0)30 2093-70960 > < https://weltliteratur.net/ >>>>><<<<< https://dev.bibsonomy.org/ >

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Third Call for Papers: Special issue on Ontology Matching and Machine Learning (Semantic Web Journal)

by Cassia TROJAHN

Special issue on Ontology Matching and Machine Learning https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-issue-ontology-matching-a… ------------------- This special issue aims to discuss the latest research proposals and on the use of machine learning for ontology matching, data interlinking, and data integration in general. Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed with the matched ontologies to interoperate. While early approaches have addressed the use of machine learning, new deep learning and large language models have gained attention in the field, proving new ways of capturing the relationships between the entities of different ontologies. The special issue aims at providing a comprehensive view of the latest research advancements and inspire further research in this evolving area. We welcome original research papers that propose novel techniques, models, and frameworks for ontology matching, data interlink and data integration. ------------------- Themes and Topics ------------------- We are interested in (including but not limited to) the following themes and topics that study the application of deep learning and large language models in general: - Matching and deep learning - Matching and large language models - Learning in instance matching, data interlinking - Large-scale and efficient matching techniques - Matching and neuro-symbolic techniques - Matcher selection, combination and tuning - User involvement - Explanations in matching - Social and collaborative matching - Uncertainty in matching - Expressive alignments - Reasoning with alignments - Alignment coherence and debugging - Matching for emerging applications (e.g., web tables, knowledge graphs) - Benchmarks for machine learning oriented matching ------------------- Deadline ------------------- Submission deadline: 20th February 2024. Papers submitted before the deadline will be reviewed upon receipt. ------------------- Author Guidelines ------------------- We invite full papers, dataset descriptions, application reports and reports on tools and systems. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this special issue. Authors can extend previously published conference or workshop papers; guidelines for this can be found in FAQ 9. Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net. Prospective authors must take notice of the submission guidelines posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors. We welcome any submission type as described http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors#types. While there is no upper limit, paper length must be justified by content. Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting a paper. Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the "Ontology Matching and Machine Learning" special issue. All manuscripts will be reviewed based on the SWJ open and transparent review policy and will be made available online during the review process. Also note that the Semantic Web journal is open access and all submissions rely on an open and transparent review process (see FAQ 1). Finally please note that submissions must comply with the journal’s Open Science Data requirements, which are detailed in the corresponding blog post. ------------------- Guest Editors The guest editors can be reached at om-ml(a)googlegroups.com . ------------------- Cássia Trojahn, IRIT, France Sven Hertling, University of Mannheim, Germany Huanyu Li, Linköping University, Sweden Oktie Hassanzadeh, IBM Research, USA ------------------- Guest Editorial Board ------------------- Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, City, Univeristy of London, UK & SIRIUS, Univeristy of Oslo, Norway Pavel Shvaiko, Trentino Digitale, Italy Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France Vasilis Efthymiou, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece George Papadakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany Catia Pesquita, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Pierre Monnin, Université Côte d’Azur, INRIA, France Alsayed Algergawy, University of Passau, Germany Yuan He, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Jiaoyan Chen, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Zhu Wang, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool United Kingdom Olivier Teste, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France

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CfP - HHAI 2024 [Extended Deadline] - The third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence

by Grootjen, Jesse

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email * Call for Participation: HHAI2024 – The third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence June 10-14, 2024, Malmö, Sweden Call for Contributions to the Doctoral Consortium In this message, we shortened each call to their essentials – the full text of each call is available on the website: https://hhai-conference.org/2024/ The HHAI 2024 Doctoral Consortium (DC) will take place as part of the 3rd International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence in June 2024, Malmö, Sweden. This forum will provide early as well as middle/late-stage PhD students in the field of Hybrid Intelligence focusing on the study of Artificial intelligence systems that cooperate synergistically, proactively and purposefully with humans, amplifying instead of replacing human intelligence. The Doctoral Consortium will take place in person at the HHAI 2024 conference. Important Dates All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth). - Submission Deadline: February 12th, 2024 - Reviews Released: March 18th, 2024 - Camera-ready Papers Due: April 18th, 2024 - Doctoral Consortium: June 11th, 2024 Proposals should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hhai2024 Location HHAI 2024 will be an in-person, single-track conference, held in Malmö, Sweden on June 10-14, 2024. More information on the venue as well as travel information can be found on the website: https://hhai-conference.org/2024/ Contact information Conference chairs: Frank Dignum (Umeå University, SE), Fabian Lorig (Malmö University, SE), Jason Tucker (Malmö University, SE), and Adam Dahlgren Lindström (Umeå University, SE). Doctoral Consortium chairs: Passant El.Agroudy (DFKI, DE), Michiel van der Meer (Leiden University, NL) and Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, SE) For questions, you can reach the doctoral consortium chairs at dc(a)hhai-conference.org<mailto:dc@hhai-conference.org> Kind regards, Julian Rasch & Jesse Grootjen Publicity and Social Media Chairs HHAI 2024 https://www.hhai-conference.org/

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Text2Story@ECIR'24 Last Call for Papers

by Hugo Oliveira Sousa

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** ++ LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ++ **************************************************************************** Seventh International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'24) Held in conjunction with the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'24) March 24th, 2024 – Glasgow, Scotland Website: https://text2story24.inesctec.pt<https://text2story24.inesctec.pt/> **************************************************************************** ++ Important Dates ++ - Submission Deadline: February 7th, 2024 - Acceptance Notification: March 1st, 2024 - Camera-ready copies: March 15th, 2024 - Workshop: March 24th, 2024 ++ Overview ++ Over these past years, significant breakthroughs, led by Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs), have been made in understanding natural language text. However, the ability to capture, represent, and analyze contextual nuances in longer texts is still an elusive goal, let alone the understanding of consistent fine-grained narrative structures in text. In the seventh edition of the Text2Story workshop, we aim to bring to the forefront the challenges involved in understanding the structure of narratives and in incorporating their representation in well-established frameworks, as well as in modern architectures (e.g., transformers) and AI-powered language models (e.g, chatGPT) which are now common and form the backbone of almost every IR and NLP application. It is hoped that the workshop will provide a common forum to consolidate the multi-disciplinary efforts and foster discussions to identify the wide-ranging issues related to the narrative extraction task. ++ List of Topics ++ Research works submitted to the workshop should foster the scientific advance on all aspects of storyline generation and understanding from texts including but not limited to narrative information extraction aspects, narratives representation, knowledge extraction, ethics and bias in narratives, datasets and evaluation protocols and narrative applications such as visualization of narratives, multi-modal aspects, Q&A, etc. To this regard, we encourage the submission of high-quality and original submissions covering the following topics: Information Extraction Aspects * Temporal Relation Identification * Temporal Reasoning and Ordering of Events * Causal Relation Extraction and Arrangement * Big Data Applied to Narrative Extraction Narrative Representation * Annotation protocols * Narrative Representation Models * Lexical, Syntactic, and Semantic Ambiguity in Narrative Representation Narrative Analysis and Generation * Argumentation Analysis * Language Models and Transfer Learning in Narrative Analysis * Narrative Analysis in Low-resource Languages * Multilinguality: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Narrative Analysis * Comprehension of Generated Narratives * Story Evolution and Shift Detection * Automatic Timeline Generation Datasets and Evaluation Protocol * Evaluation Methodologies for Narrative Extraction * Annotated datasets * Narrative Resources Ethics and Bias in Narratives * Bias Detection and Removal in Generated Stories * Ethical and Fair Narrative Generation * Misinformation and Fact Checking Narrative Applications * Narrative-focused Search in Text Collections * Narrative Summarization * Narrative Q&A * Multi-modal Narrative Summarization * Sentiment and Opinion Detection in Narratives * Social Media Narratives * Narrative Simplification * Personalization and Recommendation of Narratives * Storyline Visualization ++ Dataset ++ We challenge the interested researchers to consider submitting a paper that makes use of the tls-covid19 dataset - published at ECIR'21 - under the scope and purposes of the text2story workshop. tls-covid19 consists of a number of curated topics related to the Covid-19 outbreak, with associated news articles from Portuguese and English news outlets and their respective reference timelines as gold-standard. While it was designed to support timeline summarization research tasks it can also be used for other tasks (e.g., Q&A), especially when combined with Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. A script to reconstruct and expand the dataset is available at https://github.com/LIAAD/tls-covid19. The article itself is available at this link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-72113-8_33 ++ Submission Guidelines ++ We solicit the following types of contributions: * Full papers up to 8 pages + references Original and high-quality unpublished contributions to the theory and practical aspects of the narrative extraction task. Full papers should introduce existing approaches, describe the methodology and the experiments conducted in detail. Negative result papers to highlight tested hypotheses that did not get the expected outcome are also welcomed. * Short papers up to 5 pages + references Unpublished short papers describing work in progress; position papers introducing a new point of view, a research vision or a reasoned opinion on the workshop topics; and dissemination papers describing project ideas, ongoing research lines, case studies or summarized versions of previously published papers in high-quality conferences/journals that is worthwhile sharing with the Text2Story community, but where novelty is not a fundamental issue. * Demos | Resource Papers up to 5 pages + references Unpublished papers presenting research/industrial demos; papers describing important resources (datasets or software packages) to the text2story community; Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee. The accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published at CEUR workshop proceedings (indexed in Scopus and DBLP) as long as they don't conflict with previous publication rights. ++ Workshop Format ++ Participants of accepted papers will be given 15 minutes for oral presentations. ++ Invited Speakers ++ Homo narrans: From Information to Narratives Jochen L. Leidner<https://www.coburg-university.de/about-us/faculties/faculty-of-business-and…>, Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Abstract: Humans are curious creatures, equipped with a sense of (and desire for) finding meaning in their environment. They are predisposed to identify patterns, real and spurious, in the world they live in, and above anything else, they understand the world in terms of narratives. In this talk, we will explore a set of questions about narratives: what is a narrative made up of? What signals from textual prose tell us what the narrative is? What about signals from structured data that imply a particular narrative? What is the essence of a story? How can narrative information be extracted and presented? Open source intelligence analysts and investigative reporters alike are hunting for the story, the narrative, behind the petabyte intercepts or terabyte leaks. The more data we gather or have available, the stronger will be our thirst to distill meaningful stories from it. Bio: Professor Jochen L. Leidner MA MPhil PhD FRGS is the Research Professor for Explainable and Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Insurance at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany, where he leads the Information Access Research Group, a Visiting Professor of Data Analytics in the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield and founder and CEO of the consultancy KnowledgeSpaces. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Dr. Leidner's experience includes positions as Director of Research at Thomson Reuters and Refinitiv in London, where he headed its R&D team (2013-2022). He has built up research and innovation teams. He was also the Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor of Data Analytics at the Department of Computer Science. His background includes a Master's in computational linguistics, English and computer science (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), a Master's in Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology (University of Cambridge) and a PhD in Informatics (University of Edinburgh), which won the first ACM SIGIR Doctoral Consortium Award. He is a scientific expert for the European Commission (FP7, H2020, Horizon Europe) and other funding bodies in Germany, Austria, the UK and the USA. He also is a past chair of the Microsoft-BCS/BCS IRSG Karen Sparck Jones award. Professor Leidner is an author or co-author of several dozen peer-reviewed publications (including one best paper award), has authored or co-edited two books and holds several patents in the areas of information retrieval, natural language processing, and mobile computing. He has been twice winner of the Thomson Reuters inventor of the year award for the best patent application, and is the past received of a Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellowship in Electronic Markets. Visual Storytelling with Question-Answer Plans Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Abstract: Visual storytelling aims to generate compelling narratives from image sequences. Existing models often focus on enhancing the representation of the image sequence, e.g., with external knowledge sources or advanced graph structures. Despite recent progress, the stories are often repetitive, illogical, and lacking in detail. To mitigate these issues, we present a novel framework which integrates visual representations with pretrained language models and planning. Our model translates the image sequence into a visual prefix, a sequence of continuous embeddings which language models can interpret. It also leverages a sequence of question-answer pairs as a blueprint plan for selecting salient visual concepts and determining how they should be assembled into a narrative. Automatic and human evaluation on the VIST benchmark (Huang et al., 2016) demonstrates that blueprint-based models generate stories that are more coherent, interesting, and natural compared to competitive baselines and state-of-the-art systems. Bio: Professor Mirella Lapata is a faculty member in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. She is affiliated with the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems and the Edinburgh Natural Language Processing Group. Her research centers on computational models for the representation, extraction, and generation of semantic information from structured and unstructured data. This encompasses various modalities, including text, images, video, and large-scale knowledge bases. Prof. Lapata has contributed to diverse applied Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, such as semantic parsing, semantic role labeling, discourse coherence, summarization, text simplification, concept-to-text generation, and question answering. Using primarily probabilistic generative models, she has employed computational models to investigate aspects of human cognition, including learning concepts, judging similarity, forming perceptual representations, and learning word meanings. The overarching objective of her research is to empower computers to comprehend requests, execute actions based on them, process and aggregate large datasets, and convey information derived from them. Central to these endeavors are models designed for extracting and representing meaning from natural language text, internally storing meanings, and leveraging stored meanings to deduce further consequences. ++ Organizing committee ++ Ricardo Campos (INESC TEC; University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal) Alípio M. Jorge (INESC TEC; University of Porto, Portugal) Adam Jatowt (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Sumit Bhatia (Media and Data Science Research Lab, Adobe) Marina Litvak (Shamoon Academic College of Engineering, Israel) ++ Proceedings Chair ++ João Paulo Cordeiro (INESC TEC & Universidade da Beira do Interior) Conceição Rocha (INESC TEC) ++ Web and Dissemination Chair ++ Hugo Sousa (INESC TEC & University of Porto) Behrooz Mansouri (Rochester Institute of Technology) ++ Program Committee ++ Álvaro Figueira (INESC TEC & University of Porto) Andreas Spitz (University of Konstanz) Antoine Doucet (Université de La Rochelle) António Horta Branco (University of Lisbon) Anubhav Jangra (IIT Patna, Japan) Arian Pasquali (Faktion AI) Bart Gajderowicz (University of Toronto) Begoña Altuna (Universidad del País Vasco) Behrooz Mansouri (Rochester Institute of Technology) Brenda Santana (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) Bruno Martins (IST & INESC-ID, University of Lisbon) Brucce dos Santos (Computational Intelligence Laboratory (LABIC) - ICMC/USP) David Semedo (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) Deya Banisakher (Florida International University) Dhruv Gupta (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Evelin Amorim (INESC TEC) Henrique Lopes Cardoso (LIACC & University of Porto) Ignatius Ezeani (Lancaster University) Irina Rabaev (Shamoon College of Engineering) Ismail Altingovde (Middle East Technical University) João Paulo Cordeiro (INESC TEC & University of Beira Interior) Liana Ermakova (HCTI, Université de Bretagne Occidentale) Luca Cagliero (Politecnico di Torino) Ludovic Moncla (INSA Lyon) Luis Filipe Cunha (INESC TEC & University of Minho) Marc Finlayson (Florida International University) Marc Spaniol (Université de Caen Normandie) Mariana Caravanti (Computational Intelligence Laboratory (LABIC) - ICMC/USP) Moreno La Quatra (Kore University of Enna) Natalia Vanetik (Sami Shamoon College of Engineering) Nuno Guimarães (INESC TEC & University of Porto) Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora) Purificação Silvano (CLUP & University of Porto) Ross Purves (University of Zurich) Satya Almasian (Heidelberg University) Sérgio Nunes (INESC TEC & University of Porto) Sriharsh Bhyravajjula (University of Washington) Udo Kruschwitz (University of Regensburg) Valentina Bartalesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy) ++ Contacts ++ Website: https://text2story24.inesctec.pt<https://text2story24.inesctec.pt/> For general inquiries regarding the workshop, reach the organizers at: text2story2024(a)easychair.org<mailto:text2story2024@easychair.org>

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CfP - HHAI 2024 [Extended Deadline] - The third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence

by Grootjen, Jesse

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email * Call for Participation: HHAI2024 – The third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence June 10-14, 2024, Malmö, Sweden Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals & Doctoral Consortium In this message, we shortened each call to their essentials – the full text of each call is available on the website: https://hhai-conference.org/2024/ Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals We invite proposals for two-day, full-day and half-day workshops at HHAI 2024. We also invite tutorials to run alongside the workshops. The workshops and tutorials will form part of the first edition of the HHAI Summer School. The HHAI 2024 workshops and tutorials provide a platform for discussing a topic related to Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence with an audience specifically interested in that topic in an informal setting (compared to the main conference). We invite submissions for events that foster cross-disciplinary interaction, scientific discourse, and creative and critical reflection, rather than just being mini-conferences. We offer organizers flexibility on formats that best suit the goals of their event. We also welcome submissions from research communities that may not be prominently featured in AI events and conferences. Important Dates - Workshop and tutorial proposals: January 31, 2024 February 9, 2024 - Proposal acceptance notification: February 7, 2024 February 14, 2024 - Deadline for announcing the Call for Contributions to the workshops: February 14, 2024 February 21, 2024 - Recommended deadline for submissions to the workshops: April 10, 2024 - Recommended deadline for notifications on the submissions: May 2, 2024 - Workshops and tutorials at HHAI2024: June 10-11, 2024 Proposals should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hhai2024 Doctoral Consortium Call for Contributions The HHAI 2024 Doctoral Consortium (DC) will take place as part of the 3rd International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence in June 2024, Malmö, Sweden. This forum will provide early as well as middle/late-stage PhD students in the field of Hybrid Intelligence focusing on the study of Artificial intelligence systems that cooperate synergistically, proactively and purposefully with humans, amplifying instead of replacing human intelligence. The Doctoral Consortium will take place in person at the HHAI 2024 conference. Important Dates All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth). - Submission Deadline: February 12th, 2024 - Reviews Released: March 18th, 2024 - Camera-ready Papers Due: April 18th, 2024 - Doctoral Consortium: June 11th, 2024 Proposals should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hhai2024 Location HHAI 2024 will be an in-person, single-track conference, held in Malmö, Sweden on June 10-14, 2024. More information on the venue as well as travel information can be found on the website: https://hhai-conference.org/2024/ Contact information Conference chairs: Frank Dignum (Umeå University, SE), Fabian Lorig (Malmö University, SE), Jason Tucker (Malmö University, SE), and Adam Dahlgren Lindström (Umeå University, SE). Program chairs: Pradeep Murukannaiah (TU Delft, NL), Andreas Theodorou (Umeå University, SE), Pinar Yolum (Utrecht University, NL). Workshop chairs: Petter Ericson (Umeå University, SE), Nina Khairova (Umeå University, SE), Marina de Vos (University of Bath, UK) Doctoral Consortium chairs: Passant El.Agroudy (DFKI, DE), Michiel van der Meer (Leiden University, NL) and Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, SE) For questions, you can reach the program chairs at program(a)hhai-conference.org<mailto:program@hhai-conference.org>, the workshop chairs at workshop(a)hhai-conference.org<mailto:workshop@hhai-conference.org> and the doctoral consortium chars at dc(a)hhai-conference.org<mailto:dc@hhai-conference.org> Kind regards, Julian Rasch & Jesse Grootjen Publicity and Social Media Chairs HHAI 2024 https://www.hhai-conference.org/

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1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures - 2nd Call for Papers

by Sebastien Ferre

*** 2nd Call for Papers *** CONCEPTS 2024 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures 28th Intl. Conf. on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) 18th Intl. Conf. on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA) 17th Intl. Conf. on Concept Lattices and their Applications (CLA) September 9–13 2024, Cádiz, Spain Website: https://concepts2024.uca.es <https://concepts2024.uca.es> Email contact address: concepts24(a)lists.cs.uni-kassel.de <mailto:concepts24@lists.cs.uni-kassel.de> The 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures (CONCEPTS) is a merger of the three conferences CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA, which have been essential venues for researchers and practitioners working on theoretical and applied aspects of formal concept analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge, as well as closely related areas, such as data mining, information retrieval, knowledge management and discovery. This new conference aims to continue the tradition and standards of previous conferences and become a key annual meeting to take along all members of the three communities of CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA and to keep abreast of the advances and new challenges in the field. Main topics include but are not limited to: - Formal concept analysis: concept lattices, implications, algorithms and computational complexity - Conceptual graphs, graph-based models for human reasoning - Knowledge spaces and learning spaces - Ontologies, semantic web, knowledge graphs - Conceptual structures in natural language processing and linguistics - Conceptual knowledge acquisition and management - Conceptual knowledge discovery, data analysis, and visualization - Probabilistic approaches to conceptual knowledge representation and knowledge discovery - Approximation techniques in application to conceptual structures - Bridging conceptual structures to information sciences, artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, database theory, software engineering, and other areas of computer science - Understanding real-world data and modeling real-world phenomena with conceptual structures *Submission details:* Submissions are invited on significant, original (previously unpublished) research on the topics of the conference. All accepted submissions will be refereed, by following three different modalities: * journal track papers, up to 26 pages, to be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) <https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-approximate-…>; * regular papers up to 16 pages and short papers up to 8 pages, to be published by Springer in the LNAI series as a proceedings volume. All submissions will be subject to single-blind peer review. Accepted papers have to be presented at the conference on-site. Therefore, at least one author per paper has to register timely and attend the conference on-site. *Important dates and submission instructions:** * /***Journal track submissions***/ - Full paper submission: March 6, 2024 - Paper reviews sent to authors: May 3, 2024 - Revised submission: June 3, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2024 Manuscripts must be submitted via the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning online submission system (Editorial Manager®): https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/ija/default2.aspx <https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/ija/default2.aspx>. Please select the article type “*VSI: CONCEPTS 2024*” when submitting your manuscript online. Please refer to the Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-approximate-reas… <https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-approximate-reas…>. See also LaTeX instructions: https://www.elsevier.com/researcher/author/policies-and-guidelines/latex-in… <https://www.elsevier.com/researcher/author/policies-and-guidelines/latex-in…>. /***Regular and short papers***/ - Abstract submission: March 18, 2024 - Full paper submission: March 25, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due: May 30, 2024 Submission link: https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/CONCEPTS2024 <https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/CONCEPTS2024>. Please select the appropriate category for your submitted manuscript, 'regular paper' or 'short paper'. Please visit the page Information for authors <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…> on Springer's website for templates and formatting style. *Organization: * _General and Conference Chair:_ Jesús Medina, University of Cádiz, Spain _Program Chairs:_ Inma P. Cabrera, University of Málaga, Spain Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany _Local organizer Committee:_ María José Benítez Caballero, University of Cádiz, Spain Fernando Chacón-Gómez, University of Cádiz, Spain Samuel José Molina Ruiz, University of Cádiz, Spain Francisco José Ocaña Alcázar, University of Cádiz, Spain _Executive Board: _ Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain Radim Belohlavek, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic Tanya Braun, University of Münster, Germany Madalina Croitoru, University of Montpellier, France Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France Sergei Kuznetsov, HSE University, Moscow, Russia Rokia Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, University of Malaga, Spain Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany

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Warning: Predatory conference on "FCA"

by Gerd Stumme

Dear all, there is currently a call on the web for "ICFCA 2024: 18. International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis", organized by the "World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology" [1] in April 2024 in New York. Please note that this is a predatory conference! For not promoting this fake event further, I refrain from adding a link. Wikipedia is describing the predatory nature of this organisation. Please note that this year, ICFCA is joining with CLA and ICCS, as previously announced. The joint conference, CONCEPTS 2024, is going to be held at Cádiz, Spain on September 9-13. Deadlines are March 6 for the journal track and March 18 for the proceedings track. Details can be found at https://concepts2024.uca.es/ Best regards, Gerd -- Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme, Hertie Chair of Knowledge & Data Engineering & Research Center for Information System Design (ITeG) & International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER), University of Kassel & Research Center L3S & The Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI) http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de, Tel. +49 561/804-6251

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First Call for papers: Special issue on Ontology Matching and Machine Learning (Semantic Web Journal)

by Cassia TROJAHN

Special issue on Ontology Matching and Machine Learning https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-issue-ontology-matching-a… ------------------- This special issue aims to discuss the latest research proposals and on the use of machine learning for ontology matching, data interlinking, and data integration in general. Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed with the matched ontologies to interoperate. While early approaches have addressed the use of machine learning, new deep learning and large language models have gained attention in the field, proving new ways of capturing the relationships between the entities of different ontologies. The special issue aims at providing a comprehensive view of the latest research advancements and inspire further research in this evolving area. We welcome original research papers that propose novel techniques, models, and frameworks for ontology matching, data interlink and data integration. ------------------- Themes and Topics ------------------- We are interested in (including but not limited to) the following themes and topics that study the application of deep learning and large langage models in general: - Matching and deep learning - Matching and large language models - Learning in instance matching, data interlinking - Large-scale and efficient matching techniques - Matching and neuro-symbolic techniques - Matcher selection, combination and tuning - User involvement - Explanations in matching - Social and collaborative matching - Uncertainty in matching - Expressive alignments - Reasoning with alignments - Alignment coherence and debugging - Matching for emerging applications (e.g., web tables, knowledge graphs) - Benchmarks for machine learning oriented matching ------------------- Deadline ------------------- Submission deadline: 20th February 2024. Papers submitted before the deadline will be reviewed upon receipt. ------------------- Author Guidelines ------------------- We invite full papers, dataset descriptions, application reports and reports on tools and systems. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this special issue. Authors can extend previously published conference or workshop papers; guidelines for this can be found in FAQ 9. Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net. Prospective authors must take notice of the submission guidelines posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors. We welcome any submission type as described http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors#types. While there is no upper limit, paper length must be justified by content. Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting a paper. Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the "Ontology Matching and Machine Learning" special issue. All manuscripts will be reviewed based on the SWJ open and transparent review policy and will be made available online during the review process. Also note that the Semantic Web journal is open access and all submissions rely on an open and transparent review process (see FAQ 1). Finally please note that submissions must comply with the journal’s Open Science Data requirements, which are detailed in the corresponding blog post. ------------------- Guest Editors The guest editors can be reached at om-ml(a)googlegroups.com . ------------------- Cássia Trojahn, IRIT, France Sven Hertling, University of Mannheim, Germany Huanyu Li, Linköping University, Sweden Oktie Hassanzadeh, IBM Research, USA ------------------- Guest Editorial Board ------------------- Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, City, University of London, UK & SIRIUS, University of Oslo, Norway Pavel Shvaiko, Trentino Digitale, Italy Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France TO BE COMPLETED

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IAOA Honorary Fellowship Award - Call for Nominations by Jan 21, 2024

by Frank Loebe

[forwarded on behalf of Oliver Kutz] == Award Announcement and Call for Nominations == The IAOA [1] has established an award of honorary fellowships [2] in order to recognise distinguished scholars in the field of applied ontology. IAOA Fellows will have contributed significantly and in a sustained manner to the field of applied ontology, for example by outstanding scientific achievements, which often goes hand-in-hand with their strong dedication and service to the community. Their selection is subject to an annual process based on nominations from the community. For 2024, we solicit nominations by January 21, 2024 (Sunday, UTC-12). Please send nominations to [3] info(a)iaoa.org. Complete details on the process are specified in the IAOA's Fellowship Procedure [4], an excerpt of which describing the nomination requirements is copied below. The 2024 selection committee consists of - João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES), Vitoria, Brazil - Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), Trento, Italy - Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy - Deborah McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA - Laure Vieu, Toulouse Institute for Computer Science Research (IRIT), France We look forward to each nomination, with many thanks in advance for the effort! Best regards, Oliver Kutz President, IAOA --- < excerpt from [4] > To nominate a person, a nominator sends a message to the committee that summarizes the main contributions of the nominee to applied ontology and argues why the nominee should be selected. The nomination should be seconded by at least one supporter. Among the nominator and the supporter(s), at least one should be an IAOA member. Self nominations are not allowed. A nominee cannot be part of the selection committee. If that happens, the nominee will be given the option to reject the nomination or withdraw from the selection committee. </ excerpt > --- [1] International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) https://iaoa.org [2] IAOA Fellowship (web page) https://iaoa.org/index.php/organization/fellows/ [3] IAOA contact mail address, to be used for nominations info(a)iaoa.org [4] IAOA Fellowship Procedure https://iaoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IAOA-Fellow-Procedure.pdf

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2nd CfP - HHAI 2024 - The third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence

by Grootjen, Jesse

Call for Participation: HHAI2024 – The third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence June 10-14, 2024, Malmö, Sweden Call for Papers & Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals In this message, we shortened each call to their essentials – the full text of each call is available on the website: https://hhai-conference.org/2024/ Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) is an international conference series that focuses on the study of Artificial Intelligence systems that cooperate synergistically, proactively and purposefully with humans, amplifying instead of replacing human intelligence. HHAI aims for AI systems that work together with humans, emphasizing the need for adaptive, collaborative, responsible, interactive and human-centered intelligent systems. HHAI systems leverage human strengths and compensate for human weaknesses, while taking into account social, ethical and legal considerations. The HHAI field is driven by developments in AI, but it also requires fundamentally new approaches and solutions. Thus, we encourage collaborations across research domains such as AI, HCI, cognitive and social sciences, philosophy & ethics, complex systems, and others. In this third international conference, we invite scholars from these fields to submit their best original – new as well as in progress – works, and visionary ideas on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. Call for Papers (Main track) Important dates - Abstract submission: January 26, 2024 - Paper submission: February 2, 2024 - Acceptance notification: March 29, 2024 - Camera-ready version: April 12, 2024 Topics We invite research on different challenges in Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. The following list of topics is illustrative, not exhaustive: - Human-AI interaction and collaboration - Adaptive human-AI co-learning and co-creation - Learning, reasoning and planning with humans and machines in the loop - User modeling and personalisation - Integration of learning and reasoning - Transparent, explainable, and accountable AI - Fair, ethical, responsible, and trustworthy AI - Societal awareness of AI - Multimodal machine perception of real world settings - Social signal processing - Representations learning for Communicative or Collaborative AI - Symbolic and narrative-based representations for human-centric AI - Role of Design and Compositionality of AI systems in Interpretable / Collaborative AI We welcome contributions about all types of technology, from robots and conversational agents to multi-agent systems and machine learning models. Paper types In this conference, we wish to stimulate the exchange of novel ideas and interdisciplinary perspectives. To do this, we will accept three different types of papers: - Full papers present original, impactful work (12 pages excl. references) - Blue sky papers present visionary ideas to stimulate the research community (8 pages excl. references) - Working papers present work in progress (8 pages excl.references) Accepted full papers and Blue sky papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Machine Intelligence, in the Frontiers of AI series by IOS Press. Working papers can be included in these proceedings, unless the authors request the paper to remain unpublished. Work should be submitted in PDF format via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hhai2024 Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals We invite proposals for two-day, full-day and half-day workshops at HHAI 2024. We also invite tutorials to run alongside the workshops. The workshops and tutorials will form part of the first edition of the HHAI Summer School. The HHAI 2024 workshops and tutorials provide a platform for discussing a topic related to Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence with an audience specifically interested in that topic in an informal setting (compared to the main conference). We invite submissions for events that foster cross-disciplinary interaction, scientific discourse, and creative and critical reflection, rather than just being mini-conferences. We offer organizers flexibility on formats that best suit the goals of their event. We also welcome submissions from research communities that may not be prominently featured in AI events and conferences. Important Dates - Workshop and tutorial proposals: January 31, 2024 - Proposal acceptance notification: February 7, 2024 - Deadline for announcing the Call for Contributions to the workshops: February 14, 2024 - Recommended deadline for submissions to the workshops: April 10, 2024 - Recommended deadline for notifications on the submissions: May 2, 2024 - Workshops and tutorials at HHAI2024: June 10-11, 2024 Proposals should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hhai2024 Location HHAI 2024 will be an in-person, single-track conference, held in Malmö, Sweden on June 10-14, 2024. More information on the venue as well as travel information can be found on the website: https://hhai-conference.org/2024/ Contact information Conference chairs: Frank Dignum (Umeå University, SE), Fabian Lorig (Malmö University, SE), Jason Tucker (Malmö University, SE), and Adam Dahlgren Lindström (Umeå University, SE). Program chairs: Pradeep Murukannaiah (TU Delft, NL), Andreas Theodorou (Umeå University, SE), Pinar Yolum (Utrecht University, NL). Workshop chairs: Petter Ericson (Umeå University, SE), Nina Khairova (Umeå University, SE), Marina de Vos (University of Bath, UK) For questions, you can reach the program chairs at program(a)hhai-conference.org<mailto:program@hhai-conference.org> and the workshop chairs at workshop(a)hhai-conference.org<mailto:workshop@hhai-conference.org> Kind regards, Julian Rasch & Jesse Grootjen Publicity and Social Media Chairs HHAI 2024 https://www.hhai-conference.org/

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ESCIM2024 | Invitation to the special session "Recent trends in knowledge representation and modelling"

by Uta Priss

Forwarded from Manuel Ojeda-Hernández: > [APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING] > > Dear colleagues, > > We cordially invite you to participate in the special session "Recent trends in knowledge representation and modelling" that we will be held in ESCIM 2024 in Krakow (Poland). Futher information about the conference can be found in http://escim2024.uca.es/ <http://escim2024.uca.es/>. > > The Special Session is focused on theoretical and applied tools for representing and modelling information. In particular, our interest is in the direction of recent techniques for dealing with uncertainty. In this sense, Formal Conceptual Analysis, Logic Programming and Rough Set Theory, together with their fuzzy extensions, arise as reliable tools for dealing with knowledge obtained from databases that are uncertain in some way, such as incomplete, imprecise, ambiguous, graded. These are some of the highlighted topics of interest in the session, but contributions related to other fields are also welcome. > > Keywords and related topics: > - Formal Concept Analysis > - Logic Programming > - Rough Set Theory > > Organizers: > * Roberto García-Aragón: roberto.aragon(a)uca.es <mailto:roberto.aragon@uca.es> > * David Lobo: david.lobo(a)uca.es <mailto:david.lobo@uca.es> > * Manuel Ojeda-Hernández: manuojeda <mailto:manuojeda@uma.es>@uma.e <mailto:manuojeda@uma.es>s <mailto:manuojeda@uma.es> > > Best regards, Roberto, David and Manuel

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HHAI 2024 - The third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence

by Grootjen, Jesse

Call for Participation: HHAI2024 – The third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence June 10-14, 2024, Malmö, Sweden Call for Papers & Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals In this message, we shortened each call to their essentials – the full text of each call is available on the website: https://hhai-conference.org/2024/ Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) is an international conference series that focuses on the study of Artificial Intelligence systems that cooperate synergistically, proactively and purposefully with humans, amplifying instead of replacing human intelligence. HHAI aims for AI systems that work together with humans, emphasizing the need for adaptive, collaborative, responsible, interactive and human-centered intelligent systems. HHAI systems leverage human strengths and compensate for human weaknesses, while taking into account social, ethical and legal considerations. The HHAI field is driven by developments in AI, but it also requires fundamentally new approaches and solutions. Thus, we encourage collaborations across research domains such as AI, HCI, cognitive and social sciences, philosophy & ethics, complex systems, and others. In this third international conference, we invite scholars from these fields to submit their best original – new as well as in progress – works, and visionary ideas on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. Call for Papers (Main track) Important dates - Abstract submission: January 26, 2024 - Paper submission: February 2, 2024 - Acceptance notification: March 29, 2024 - Camera-ready version: April 12, 2024 Topics We invite research on different challenges in Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. The following list of topics is illustrative, not exhaustive: - Human-AI interaction and collaboration - Adaptive human-AI co-learning and co-creation - Learning, reasoning and planning with humans and machines in the loop - User modeling and personalisation - Integration of learning and reasoning - Transparent, explainable, and accountable AI - Fair, ethical, responsible, and trustworthy AI - Societal awareness of AI - Multimodal machine perception of real world settings - Social signal processing - Representations learning for Communicative or Collaborative AI - Symbolic and narrative-based representations for human-centric AI - Role of Design and Compositionality of AI systems in Interpretable / Collaborative AI We welcome contributions about all types of technology, from robots and conversational agents to multi-agent systems and machine learning models. Paper types In this conference, we wish to stimulate the exchange of novel ideas and interdisciplinary perspectives. To do this, we will accept three different types of papers: - Full papers present original, impactful work (12 pages excl. references) - Blue sky papers present visionary ideas to stimulate the research community (8 pages excl. references) - Working papers present work in progress (8 pages excl.references) Accepted full papers and Blue sky papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Machine Intelligence, in the Frontiers of AI series by IOS Press. Working papers can be included in these proceedings, unless the authors request the paper to remain unpublished. Work should be submitted in PDF format via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hhai2024 Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals We invite proposals for two-day, full-day and half-day workshops at HHAI 2024. We also invite tutorials to run alongside the workshops. The workshops and tutorials will form part of the first edition of the HHAI Summer School. The HHAI 2024 workshops and tutorials provide a platform for discussing a topic related to Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence with an audience specifically interested in that topic in an informal setting (compared to the main conference). We invite submissions for events that foster cross-disciplinary interaction, scientific discourse, and creative and critical reflection, rather than just being mini-conferences. We offer organizers flexibility on formats that best suit the goals of their event. We also welcome submissions from research communities that may not be prominently featured in AI events and conferences. Important Dates - Workshop and tutorial proposals: January 31, 2024 - Proposal acceptance notification: February 7, 2024 - Deadline for announcing the Call for Contributions to the workshops: February 14, 2024 - Recommended deadline for submissions to the workshops: April 10, 2024 - Recommended deadline for notifications on the submissions: May 2, 2024 - Workshops and tutorials at HHAI2024: June 10-11, 2024 Proposals should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hhai2024 Location HHAI 2024 will be an in-person, single-track conference, held in Malmö, Sweden on June 10-14, 2024. More information on the venue as well as travel information can be found on the website: https://hhai-conference.org/2024/ Contact information Conference chairs: Frank Dignum (Umeå University, SE), Fabian Lorig (Malmö University, SE), Jason Tucker (Malmö University, SE), and Adam Dahlgren Lindström (Umeå University, SE). Program chairs: Pradeep Murukannaiah (TU Delft, NL), Andreas Theodorou (Umeå University, SE), Pinar Yolum (Utrecht University, NL). Workshop chairs: Petter Ericson (Umeå University, SE), Nina Khairova (Umeå University, SE), Marina de Vos (University of Bath, UK) For questions, you can reach the program chairs at program(a)hhai-conference.org<mailto:program@hhai-conference.org> and the workshop chairs at workshop(a)hhai-conference.org<mailto:workshop@hhai-conference.org> Kind regards, Julian Rasch & Jesse Grootjen Publicity and Social Media Chairs HHAI 2024 https://www.hhai-conference.org/

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Fwd: ESAO Webinar n.10 on Tuesday, December 19th -- Call for Participation

by Cassia TROJAHN

Gentle reminder. > == ESAO Webinar n.10, 19th December 2023 == > > Dear all, > > The Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1] is open for everyone and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike (no registration needed). > > The 10th ESAO webinar will be held on > > Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 15:00 CET > (regional times: 09:00-10:30 EDT / 14:00-15:30 UTC / 15:00-16:30 CET / 16:00-17:30 SAST / 11:00-12:30 UTC-3 [2]) > via Zoom (full connection details at the end of this message) > > https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/95709820112?pwd=VXlYTi8zbzBDbjVkUW1Qa2dGMW4zUT… > > Program & Speakers Info > ---------------------- > 09:00-10:30 EDT / 14:00-15:30 UTC / 15:00-16:30 CET / 16:00-17:30 SAST / 11:00-12:30 UTC-3 (30 min each presentation + discussions) > > ------- > Mara Abel (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) > > Title: Ontology application in the petroleum industry > Abstract: The petroleum production chain configures a complex sequence of activities that require specialized knowledge and large volume of information from diverse sources and types. Considering the high level of requested knowledge, several specialized providers assume part of the activities producing information and data that are integrated during process decision, production monitoring, and optimization. In this non-standardize scenario, semantic treatment becomes a key issue to allow interoperability between systems and enterprise information consumption. Ontology engineering came with the adequate tools for dealing with semantic in this environment nowadays, by orienting the development of domain ontologies and the embodiment of the ontology artifacts into information system applications. This talk will describe use cases of domain ontologies in petroleum industry environment for information retrieval, expert system applications, digital twin for implementation and decision making applications, highlighting details of the each project development. > > Bio: Mara Abel is geologist and doctor in Computer Science, studying knowledge engineering applied to Petroleum Industry. She is a retired titular professor of UFRGS, in Brasil, where she has been dedicated to investigate and build ontologies for dealing with interoperability problems in petroleum industry. She is co-founder of the knowledge-based software company ENDEEPER and she has conceived several successful industrial applications for reservoir characterization and production optimization in industrial cooperation projects. > > ------- > Emilio Sanfilippo (National Research Council of Italy) > > Title: Ontologies in Digital Humanities: Some Research Challenges > Abstract: Ontologies are extensively used in both research and applications within the realm of digital humanities, with one of the most notable examples being the CIDOC-CRM ontology and its extensions. Similarly to other domains of application, ontologies within the digital humanities serve diverse purposes, including the seamless organization of datasets across multiple organizations to enable their smooth sharing and integration. However, within this landscape, critical studies pertaining to the interpretive reception of artworks – or any entity central to humanities research – have remained at the margins of knowledge representation and data modeling efforts. Consequently, while numerous digital platforms offer ontology-based datasets, only a few explicitly address the interpretive dimension of scholarly inquiries. This absence is somewhat surprising considering the significance of interpretive phenomena in critical studies of fine art, literature, music, theater, and other disciplines. During this presentation, I will briefly explore the utilization of ontologies in the digital humanities, discussing the challenges researchers must confront, in my opinion, to comprehend the multifaceted nature of scholarly research in the humanities. These challenges encompass the development of methodologies and formal models to represent scholarly interpretations and debates. > > Bio: Emilio Sanfilippo is a permanent researcher at the National Research Council of Italy, affiliated with the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) within the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC). His research encompasses foundational and applied topics concerning the utilization of ontologies in both industrial engineering and the digital humanities. Presently, he serves as the principal investigator of the MITE project - Make it Explicit: Documenting interpretations of literary fictions with conceptual formal models, funded by the Italian Ministry for University and Research (MUR). > > Series Description > ------------------ > > The IAOA [3] has created ESAO [1], an 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) [4]. 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 [5] and among those primarily (in alphabetical order): > > * Lucía Gómez Álvarez > * Frank Loebe > * Sandra Lovrenčić > * Cassia Trojahn (Chair) > * Laure Vieu > > Contact > E-Mail: info(a)iaoa.org > > [1] Educational Series on Applied Ontology > https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO > > [2] Session time locally and in further places > https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20230510T1400 > > [3] IAOA website > http://iaoa.org/ > > [4] ISAO History page > https://iaoa.org/index.php/isao-history/ > > [5] Entry page of the IAOA Education Technical Committee > https://iaoa.org/index.php/faq/education-committee/ > > > Connection Details > ------------------ > > Topic: ESAO 10th > Time: Dec 19, 2023 03:00 PM Paris > > Join Zoom Meeting > https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/95709820112?pwd=VXlYTi8zbzBDbjVkUW1Qa2dGMW4zUT… > > Meeting ID: 957 0982 0112 > Passcode: 770691 > > --- > > Join by SIP > • 95709820112(a)zoomcrc.com > > --- > > Join by H.323 > • 162.255.37.11 (US West) > • 162.255.36.11 (US East) > • 221.122.88.195 (China) > • 115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai) > • 115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad) > • 213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) > • 213.244.140.110 (Germany) > • 103.122.166.55 (Australia Sydney) > • 103.122.167.55 (Australia Melbourne) > • 209.9.211.110 (Hong Kong SAR) > • 149.137.40.110 (Singapore) > • 64.211.144.160 (Brazil) > • 69.174.57.160 (Canada Toronto) > • 65.39.152.160 (Canada Vancouver) > • 207.226.132.110 (Japan Tokyo) > • 149.137.24.110 (Japan Osaka) > > Meeting ID: 957 0982 0112 > Passcode: 770691 > > --- > > Join by Skype for Business > https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/skype/95709820112

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1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures - 1st Call for Papers

by Sebastien Ferre

*** 1st Call for Papers *** CONCEPTS 2024 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures 28th Intl. Conf. on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) 18th Intl. Conf. on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA) 17th Intl. Conf. on Concept Lattices and their Applications (CLA) September 9–13 2024, Cádiz, Spain Website: https://concepts2024.uca.es Email contact address: concepts24(a)lists.cs.uni-kassel.de The 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures (CONCEPTS) is a merger of the three conferences CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA, which have been essential venues for researchers and practitioners working on theoretical and applied aspects of formal concept analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge, as well as closely related areas, such as data mining, information retrieval, knowledge management and discovery. This new conference aims to continue the tradition and standards of previous conferences and become a key annual meeting to take along all members of the three communities of CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA and to keep abreast of the advances and new challenges in the field. Main topics include but are not limited to: - Formal concept analysis: concept lattices, implications, algorithms and computational complexity - Conceptual graphs, graph-based models for human reasoning - Knowledge spaces and learning spaces - Ontologies, semantic web, knowledge graphs - Conceptual structures in natural language processing and linguistics - Conceptual knowledge acquisition and management - Conceptual knowledge discovery, data analysis, and visualization - Probabilistic approaches to conceptual knowledge representation and knowledge discovery - Approximation techniques in application to conceptual structures - Bridging conceptual structures to information sciences, artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, database theory, software engineering, and other areas of computer science - Understanding real-world data and modeling real-world phenomena with conceptual structures Submission details: Submissions are invited on significant, original (previously unpublished) research on the topics of the conference. All accepted submissions will be refereed, by following three different modalities: journal track papers, up to 26 pages, to be published in a special issue of a high-rank international journal; regular papers up to 16 pages, and short papers up to 8 pages, to be published by Springer in the LNAI series as a proceedings volume. All submissions will be subject to single-blind peer review. Accepted papers have to be presented at the conference on-site. Therefore, at least one author per paper has to register timely and attend the conference on-site. Important dates: For journal track submissions: - Submission deadline: March 6, 2024 - Paper Reviews Sent to Authors: May 3, 2024 - Revised submission: June 3, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2024 For regular papers and extended abstracts: - Abstract submission: March 18, 2024 - Full paper submission: March 25, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due: May 30, 2024 Organization: _General and Conference Chair:_ Jesús Medina, University of Cádiz, Spain _Program Chairs:_ Inma P. Cabrera, University of Málaga, Spain Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany _Local organizer Committee:_ María José Benítez Caballero, University of Cádiz, Spain Fernando Chacón-Gómez, University of Cádiz, Spain Samuel José Molina Ruiz, University of Cádiz, Spain Francisco José Ocaña Alcázar, University of Cádiz, Spain _Executive Board: _ Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain Radim Belohlavek, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic Tanya Braun, University of Münster, Germany Madalina Croitoru, University of Montpellier, France Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France Sergei Kuznetsov, HSE University, Moscow, Russia Rokia Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, University of Malaga, Spain Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany Program Committee (to be announced soon)

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ESAO Webinar n.10 on Tuesday, December 19th -- Call for Participation

by Cassia TROJAHN

== ESAO Webinar n.10, December 2023 == Dear all, The Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1] is open for everyone and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike (no registration needed). The 10th ESAO webinar will be held on Tuesday, December 19, 2023 at 15:00 CET (regional times: 09:00-10:30 EDT / 14:00-15:30 UTC / 15:00-16:30 CET / 16:00-17:30 SAST / 11:00-12:30 UTC-3 [2]) via Zoom (full connection details at the end of this message) https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/95709820112?pwd=VXlYTi8zbzBDbjVkUW1Qa2dGMW4zUT… Program & Speakers Info ---------------------- 09:00-10:30 EDT / 14:00-15:30 UTC / 15:00-16:30 CET / 16:00-17:30 SAST / 11:00-12:30 UTC-3 (30 min each presentation + discussions) ------- Mara Abel (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Title: Ontology application in the petroleum industry Abstract: The petroleum production chain configures a complex sequence of activities that require specialized knowledge and large volume of information from diverse sources and types. Considering the high level of requested knowledge, several specialized providers assume part of the activities producing information and data that are integrated during process decision, production monitoring, and optimization. In this non-standardize scenario, semantic treatment becomes a key issue to allow interoperability between systems and enterprise information consumption. Ontology engineering came with the adequate tools for dealing with semantic in this environment nowadays, by orienting the development of domain ontologies and the embodiment of the ontology artifacts into information system applications. This talk will describe use cases of domain ontologies in petroleum industry environment for information retrieval, expert system applications, digital twin for implementation and decision making applications, highlighting details of the each project development. Bio: Mara Abel is geologist and doctor in Computer Science, studying knowledge engineering applied to Petroleum Industry. She is a retired titular professor of UFRGS, in Brasil, where she has been dedicated to investigate and build ontologies for dealing with interoperability problems in petroleum industry. She is co-founder of the knowledge-based software company ENDEEPER and she has conceived several successful industrial applications for reservoir characterization and production optimization in industrial cooperation projects. ------- Emilio Sanfilippo (National Research Council of Italy) Title: Ontologies in Digital Humanities: Some Research Challenges Abstract: Ontologies are extensively used in both research and applications within the realm of digital humanities, with one of the most notable examples being the CIDOC-CRM ontology and its extensions. Similarly to other domains of application, ontologies within the digital humanities serve diverse purposes, including the seamless organization of datasets across multiple organizations to enable their smooth sharing and integration. However, within this landscape, critical studies pertaining to the interpretive reception of artworks – or any entity central to humanities research – have remained at the margins of knowledge representation and data modeling efforts. Consequently, while numerous digital platforms offer ontology-based datasets, only a few explicitly address the interpretive dimension of scholarly inquiries. This absence is somewhat surprising considering the significance of interpretive phenomena in critical studies of fine art, literature, music, theater, and other disciplines. During this presentation, I will briefly explore the utilization of ontologies in the digital humanities, discussing the challenges researchers must confront, in my opinion, to comprehend the multifaceted nature of scholarly research in the humanities. These challenges encompass the development of methodologies and formal models to represent scholarly interpretations and debates. Bio: Emilio Sanfilippo is a permanent researcher at the National Research Council of Italy, affiliated with the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) within the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC). His research encompasses foundational and applied topics concerning the utilization of ontologies in both industrial engineering and the digital humanities. Presently, he serves as the principal investigator of the MITE project - Make it Explicit: Documenting interpretations of literary fictions with conceptual formal models, funded by the Italian Ministry for University and Research (MUR). Series Description ------------------ The IAOA [3] has created ESAO [1], an 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) [4]. 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 [5] and among those primarily (in alphabetical order): * Lucía Gómez Álvarez * Frank Loebe * Sandra Lovrenčić * Cassia Trojahn (Chair) * Laure Vieu Contact E-Mail: info(a)iaoa.org [1] Educational Series on Applied Ontology https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO [2] Session time locally and in further places https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20230510T1400 [3] IAOA website http://iaoa.org/ [4] ISAO History page https://iaoa.org/index.php/isao-history/ [5] Entry page of the IAOA Education Technical Committee https://iaoa.org/index.php/faq/education-committee/ Connection Details ------------------ Topic: ESAO 10th Time: Dec 19, 2023 03:00 PM Paris Join Zoom Meeting https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/95709820112?pwd=VXlYTi8zbzBDbjVkUW1Qa2dGMW4zUT… Meeting ID: 957 0982 0112 Passcode: 770691 --- Join by SIP • 95709820112(a)zoomcrc.com --- Join by H.323 • 162.255.37.11 (US West) • 162.255.36.11 (US East) • 221.122.88.195 (China) • 115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai) • 115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad) • 213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) • 213.244.140.110 (Germany) • 103.122.166.55 (Australia Sydney) • 103.122.167.55 (Australia Melbourne) • 209.9.211.110 (Hong Kong SAR) • 149.137.40.110 (Singapore) • 64.211.144.160 (Brazil) • 69.174.57.160 (Canada Toronto) • 65.39.152.160 (Canada Vancouver) • 207.226.132.110 (Japan Tokyo) • 149.137.24.110 (Japan Osaka) Meeting ID: 957 0982 0112 Passcode: 770691 --- Join by Skype for Business https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/skype/95709820112

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EXTENDED CfP: FoIKS 2024, 13th Int. Symp. on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems. Abstract deadline: 11.12.2023; Paper deadline: 14.12.2023

by Lucia Gomez Alvarez

*Call for Papers* 13th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems – FoIKS 2024 https://foiks2024.github.io/ Extended Deadlines ================ (Extended) Abstract submission deadline: 11.12.2023 AoE ("anywhere on earth") (Extended) Paper submission deadline: 14.12.2023 AoE ("anywhere on earth") Invited Speakers ============== * Georg Gottlob, University of Oxford * Phokion Kolaitis, University of California Santa Cruz and IBM Research * Andrei Popescu, University of Sheffield * Uli Sattler, University of Manchester About ============= The FoIKS symposia provide a biennial forum for presenting and discussing theoretical and applied research on information and knowledge systems. The goal is to bring together researchers with an interest in this subject, share research experiences, promote collaboration and identify new issues and directions for future research. FoIKS 2024 solicits original contributions (as well as extensions of previously published contributions) dealing with any foundational aspect of information and knowledge systems. This includes submissions that apply ideas, theories or methods from specific disciplines to information and knowledge systems. Examples of such disciplines are discrete mathematics, logic and algebra, model theory, information theory, (parameterized) complexity theory, algorithmics and computation, statistics, and optimisation, among, of course, many others. The FoIKS symposia are a forum for intensive discussions. Speakers will be given sufficient time to present their ideas and results within the larger context of their research. Furthermore, participants will be asked to prepare a first response to another contribution in order to initiate discussion. Suggested topics ============= The suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Database Design: Formal models, dependencies and independencies * Big Data: Models for data in the Cloud, programming languages for big data, query processing * Dynamics of Information: Models of transactions, concurrency control, updates, consistency preservation, belief revision * Information Fusion: Heterogeneity, views, schema dominance, multiple source information merging, reasoning under inconsistency * Integrity and Constraint Management: Verification, validation, consistent query answering, information cleaning * Intelligent Agents: Multi-agent systems, autonomous agents, foundations of software agents, cooperative agents, formal models of interactions, negotiations and dialogue, logical models of emotions * Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval: Machine learning, data mining, formal concept analysis and association rules, text mining, information extraction * Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Planning: Non-monotonic formalisms, probabilistic and non-probabilistic models of uncertainty, graphical models and independence, similarity-based reasoning, preference modeling and handling, computational models of argument, argumentation systems * Logics in Databases and AI: Classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description logics, spatial and temporal logics, probability logic, fuzzy logic * Mathematical Foundations: Discrete structures and algorithms, graphs, grammars, automata, abstract machines, finite model theory, information theory, coding theory, (parameterised) complexity theory, randomness * Security in Information and Knowledge Systems: Identity theft, privacy, trust, intrusion detection, access control, inference control, secure Web services, secure Semantic Web, risk management * Semi-Structured Data and XML: Data modelling, data processing, data compression, data exchange * Social Computing: Collective intelligence and self-organizing knowledge, collaborative filtering, computational social choice, Boolean games, coalition formation, reputation systems * The Semantic Web and Knowledge Management: Languages, ontologies, agents, adaption, intelligent algorithms, ontology-based data access * The WWW: Models of Web databases, Web dynamics, Web services, Web transactions and negotiations, Social Networks, Web Mining Important Dates ================ All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (AoE, "anywhere on earth"). (Extended) Abstract submission deadline: 11.12.2023 (Extended) Paper submission deadline: 14.12.2023 Acceptance notifications: 29.01.2024 Camera-ready versions of accepted papers due: 08.02.2024 Early registration deadline: 08.03.2024 Late registration deadline: 01.04.2024 Conference: 8–11.04.2024 Submission Guidelines ==================== For long papers, the page limit is 16 plus additional pages of references. For short papers, the maximum number of pages is 10 plus additional pages of references. Missing proofs or details can be optionally added as an additional appendix read at the discretion of the program committee. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Resubmission of papers rejected in major conferences (e.g., AAAI, ICDT, STACS) is welcome. Papers must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (see https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… and https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/192386…). Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Initial submissions must be in PDF format, but authors should keep in mind that the LaTeX2e source must be submitted for the final versions of accepted papers. Submissions in alternate formats, such as Microsoft Word, cannot be accepted for either initial or final versions. The submissions will be judged for scientific quality and for suitability as a basis for broader discussion. Submission is via the EasyChair link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks24. Publication ============= The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science. After the symposium, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended journal versions of their papers for a FoIKS 2024 special issue in the journal Knowledge Engineering Review (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/knowledge-engineering-review). Further details will be provided on the conference website. Organisation ============= Program Committee Chairs: Arne Meier, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany Magdalena Ortiz, TU Wien, Austria and Umeå University, Sweden Local Chair: Jonni Virtema, University of Sheffield, UK Local Organisers: Timon Barlag, University of Sheffield, UK Mike Cruchten, University of Sheffield, UK Nina Pardal, University of Sheffield, UK Max Sandström, University of Sheffield, UK Publicity Chair: Lucía Gómez Álvarez, TU Dresden, DE Contact ============= All questions about submissions should be emailed to foiks24(a)easychair.org. https://foiks2024.github.io/ _________________________ Dr. Lucía Gómez Álvarez Computational Logic Group Institute for Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Computer Science TU Dresden GERMANY

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PostDoc position in Semantic Wev at IRISA (Rennes, France)

by Sebastien Ferre

Hello, The IRISA lab of University Rennes invites applications for the attached postdoctoral position. *Job title: *postdoc 24 months, starting January 2024 *Project*: MeKaNo (ANR), 2023-2026 *Research Lab*: IRISA, Rennes, France *Team*: LACODAM *Contact*: ferre(a)irisa.fr, peggy.cellier(a)irisa.fr *Keywords*: semantic web, knowledge graphs, query languages, microdata, user interaction *Context and Objectives*: In MeKaNo, we aim to search the web with "Things" (entities), in order to get more accurate results over a wide diversity of sources. Traditional web search engines search the web with strings. However, keyword search often returns many irrelevant documents, pushing users to refine their keyword list following a trial-and-error process. On the other hand, Knowledge Graphs (KG) like Wikidata [1] enable users to search for Things and facts, and to get exact answers. However, there may exist many answers on the web that are not part of the knowledge graph. Moreover, nowadays, many websites include entities and facts in the form of microdata [2], for which there is no query engine so far. In MeKaNo, we aim at combining the querying of knowledge graphs and microdata together in order to reconcile the accuracy of KG querying, and the diversity of web search. To search the web with Things, we face several scientific challenges. Among them, an important one is the definition of a query language that combines knowledge graph querying, web search, and microdata querying. Another challenge is to assist users in the building of such complex queries [3]. We already have an approach (Sparklis [4]) that assists users in knowledge graph querying. The objective of the postdoc is to extend this approach to include web search and microdata querying. *Requirements*: The candidate must hold a Ph.D in Computer Science, preferably in the field of the Semantic Web. Skills in query languages (SPARQL), language design, web programming are a plus. *Application method:* To apply send an email to sebastien.ferre(a)irisa.fr and peggy.cellier(a)irisa.fr with attached a single PDF containing: * Cover letter in which you describe your motivation and qualifications for the position. * Curriculum vitae, including a list of your publications and the contact information of references. *References*: 1. Vrandečić, D., & Krötzsch, M. (2014). Wikidata: a free collaborative knowledgebase. Communications of the ACM, 57(10), 78-85. 2. Meusel, Robert, Christian Bizer, and Heiko Paulheim (2015). "A web-scale study of the adoption and evolution of the schema. org vocabulary over time."Int. Conf. on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics. 3. G. Marchionini. Exploratory search: from finding to understanding. Communications of the ACM, 49(4):41–46, 2006. 4. Sébastien Ferré. "Sparklis: an expressive query builder for SPARQL endpoints with guidance in natural language." Semantic Web 8.3 (2017): 405-418.

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FoIKS 2024, 13th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, 8 - 11 April 2024, Sheffield (UK). Abstract deadline: 24th November 2023

by Lucia Gomez Alvarez

*Call for Papers* —---------------- 13th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems – FoIKS 2024 https://foiks2024.github.io/ Abstract submission deadline: 24.11.2023 Paper submission deadline: 01.12.2023 The FoIKS symposia provide a biennial forum for presenting and discussing theoretical and applied research on information and knowledge systems. The goal is to bring together researchers with an interest in this subject, share research experiences, promote collaboration and identify new issues and directions for future research. FoIKS 2024 solicits original contributions (as well as extensions of previously published contributions) dealing with any foundational aspect of information and knowledge systems. This includes submissions that apply ideas, theories or methods from specific disciplines to information and knowledge systems. Examples of such disciplines are discrete mathematics, logic and algebra, model theory, information theory, (parameterized) complexity theory, algorithmics and computation, statistics, and optimisation, among, of course, many others. The FoIKS symposia are a forum for intensive discussions. Speakers will be given sufficient time to present their ideas and results within the larger context of their research. Furthermore, participants will be asked to prepare a first response to another contribution in order to initiate discussion. Suggested topics —--------------- The suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Database Design: Formal models, dependencies and independencies * Big Data: Models for data in the Cloud, programming languages for big data, query processing * Dynamics of Information: Models of transactions, concurrency control, updates, consistency preservation, belief revision * Information Fusion: Heterogeneity, views, schema dominance, multiple source information merging, reasoning under inconsistency * Integrity and Constraint Management: Verification, validation, consistent query answering, information cleaning * Intelligent Agents: Multi-agent systems, autonomous agents, foundations of software agents, cooperative agents, formal models of interactions, negotiations and dialogue, logical models of emotions * Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval: Machine learning, data mining, formal concept analysis and association rules, text mining, information extraction * Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Planning: Non-monotonic formalisms, probabilistic and non-probabilistic models of uncertainty, graphical models and independence, similarity-based reasoning, preference modeling and handling, computational models of argument, argumentation systems * Logics in Databases and AI: Classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description logics, spatial and temporal logics, probability logic, fuzzy logic * Mathematical Foundations: Discrete structures and algorithms, graphs, grammars, automata, abstract machines, finite model theory, information theory, coding theory, (parameterised) complexity theory, randomness * Security in Information and Knowledge Systems: Identity theft, privacy, trust, intrusion detection, access control, inference control, secure Web services, secure Semantic Web, risk management * Semi-Structured Data and XML: Data modelling, data processing, data compression, data exchange * Social Computing: Collective intelligence and self-organizing knowledge, collaborative filtering, computational social choice, Boolean games, coalition formation, reputation systems * The Semantic Web and Knowledge Management: Languages, ontologies, agents, adaption, intelligent algorithms, ontology-based data access * The WWW: Models of Web databases, Web dynamics, Web services, Web transactions and negotiations, Social Networks, Web Mining Invited Speakers —--------------- * Georg Gottlob, University of Oxford * Phokion Kolaitis, University of California Santa Cruz and IBM Research * Andrei Popescu, University of Sheffield * Uli Sattler, University of Manchester Important Dates —-------------- All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (AoE, "anywhere on earth"). Submission server opens 01.09.2023 Abstract submission deadline (long and short papers) 24.11.2023 Paper submission deadline (long and short papers) 01.12.2023 Acceptance notifications 29.01.2024 Camera-ready versions of accepted papers due 08.02.2024 Early registration deadline 08.03.2024 Late registration deadline 01.04.2024 Conference 8–11.04.2024 Submission Guidelines —-------------------- For long papers, the page limit is 16 plus additional pages of references. For short papers, the maximum number of pages is 10 plus additional pages of references. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Papers must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (see https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… and https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/192386…). Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Initial submissions must be in PDF format, but authors should keep in mind that the LaTeX2e source must be submitted for the final versions of accepted papers. Submissions in alternate formats, such as Microsoft Word, cannot be accepted for either initial or final versions. The submissions will be judged for scientific quality and for suitability as a basis for broader discussion. Submission is via the EasyChair link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks24. Publication —---------- The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science. After the symposium, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended journal versions of their papers for a FoIKS 2024 special issue in the journal Knowledge Engineering Review (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/knowledge-engineering-review). Further details will be provided on the conference website. Program Committee Chairs —----------------------- Arne Meier Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany Magdalena Ortiz TU Wien, Austria and Umeå University, Sweden Local Chair —---------- Jonni Virtema University of Sheffield, UK Contact —------ All questions about submissions should be emailed to foiks24(a)easychair.org. https://foiks2024.github.io/ _________________________ Dr. Lucía Gómez Álvarez Computational Logic Group Institute for Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Computer Science TU Dresden GERMANY

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CfP: FoIKS 2024, 13th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, 8 - 11 April 2024, Sheffield (UK). Abstract deadline: 24th November 2023

by Lucia Gomez Alvarez

*Call for Papers* —---------------- 13th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems – FoIKS 2024 https://foiks2024.github.io/ Abstract submission deadline: 24.11.2023 Paper submission deadline: 01.12.2023 The FoIKS symposia provide a biennial forum for presenting and discussing theoretical and applied research on information and knowledge systems. The goal is to bring together researchers with an interest in this subject, share research experiences, promote collaboration and identify new issues and directions for future research. FoIKS 2024 solicits original contributions (as well as extensions of previously published contributions) dealing with any foundational aspect of information and knowledge systems. This includes submissions that apply ideas, theories or methods from specific disciplines to information and knowledge systems. Examples of such disciplines are discrete mathematics, logic and algebra, model theory, information theory, (parameterized) complexity theory, algorithmics and computation, statistics, and optimisation, among, of course, many others. The FoIKS symposia are a forum for intensive discussions. Speakers will be given sufficient time to present their ideas and results within the larger context of their research. Furthermore, participants will be asked to prepare a first response to another contribution in order to initiate discussion. Suggested topics —--------------- The suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * Database Design: Formal models, dependencies and independencies * Big Data: Models for data in the Cloud, programming languages for big data, query processing * Dynamics of Information: Models of transactions, concurrency control, updates, consistency preservation, belief revision * Information Fusion: Heterogeneity, views, schema dominance, multiple source information merging, reasoning under inconsistency * Integrity and Constraint Management: Verification, validation, consistent query answering, information cleaning * Intelligent Agents: Multi-agent systems, autonomous agents, foundations of software agents, cooperative agents, formal models of interactions, negotiations and dialogue, logical models of emotions * Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval: Machine learning, data mining, formal concept analysis and association rules, text mining, information extraction * Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Planning: Non-monotonic formalisms, probabilistic and non-probabilistic models of uncertainty, graphical models and independence, similarity-based reasoning, preference modeling and handling, computational models of argument, argumentation systems * Logics in Databases and AI: Classical and non-classical logics, logic programming, description logics, spatial and temporal logics, probability logic, fuzzy logic * Mathematical Foundations: Discrete structures and algorithms, graphs, grammars, automata, abstract machines, finite model theory, information theory, coding theory, (parameterised) complexity theory, randomness * Security in Information and Knowledge Systems: Identity theft, privacy, trust, intrusion detection, access control, inference control, secure Web services, secure Semantic Web, risk management * Semi-Structured Data and XML: Data modelling, data processing, data compression, data exchange * Social Computing: Collective intelligence and self-organizing knowledge, collaborative filtering, computational social choice, Boolean games, coalition formation, reputation systems * The Semantic Web and Knowledge Management: Languages, ontologies, agents, adaption, intelligent algorithms, ontology-based data access * The WWW: Models of Web databases, Web dynamics, Web services, Web transactions and negotiations, Social Networks, Web Mining Invited Speakers —--------------- * Georg Gottlob, University of Oxford * Phokion Kolaitis, University of California Santa Cruz and IBM Research * Andrei Popescu, University of Sheffield * Uli Sattler, University of Manchester Important Dates —-------------- All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (AoE, "anywhere on earth"). Submission server opens 01.09.2023 Abstract submission deadline (long and short papers) 24.11.2023 Paper submission deadline (long and short papers) 01.12.2023 Acceptance notifications 29.01.2024 Camera-ready versions of accepted papers due 08.02.2024 Early registration deadline 08.03.2024 Late registration deadline 01.04.2024 Conference 8–11.04.2024 Submission Guidelines —-------------------- For long papers, the page limit is 16 plus additional pages of references. For short papers, the maximum number of pages is 10 plus additional pages of references. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Papers must be typeset using the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (see https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… and https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/192386…). Submissions that deviate substantially from these guidelines may be rejected without review. Initial submissions must be in PDF format, but authors should keep in mind that the LaTeX2e source must be submitted for the final versions of accepted papers. Submissions in alternate formats, such as Microsoft Word, cannot be accepted for either initial or final versions. The submissions will be judged for scientific quality and for suitability as a basis for broader discussion. Submission is via the EasyChair link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foiks24. Publication —---------- The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science. After the symposium, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended journal versions of their papers for a FoIKS 2024 special issue in the journal Knowledge Engineering Review (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/knowledge-engineering-review). Further details will be provided on the conference website. Program Committee Chairs —----------------------- Arne Meier Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany Magdalena Ortiz TU Wien, Austria and Umeå University, Sweden Local Chair —---------- Jonni Virtema University of Sheffield, UK Contact —------ All questions about submissions should be emailed to foiks24(a)easychair.org. https://foiks2024.github.io/ _________________________ Dr. Lucía Gómez Álvarez Computational Logic Group Institute for Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Computer Science TU Dresden GERMANY

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FOIS 2023 Online: Call for Participation

by Lucia Gomez Alvarez

===== Call for Participation to online FOIS 2023 conference, showcases and demos ===== Program: https://fois2023.griis.ca/online-conference/ Registration: https://event.fourwaves.com/fr/fois2023/inscription (free registration for students) ==================================================================================== 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023) September 18-20, 2023 (Online) Definition and scope ==================== The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. FOIS 2023 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies. FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, as well as the Semantic Web. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: http://iaoa.org/), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology. Program ==================== Monday September, 18th EDT (UTC -4) CEST (UTC +2) 08:15-08:30 14:15-14:30 FOIS online Welcome Zoom 08:30-10:30 14:30-16:30 Session 1: Foundational concepts (Chair: Laure Vieu) Zoom 10:30-11:00 16:30-17:00 Coffee break gather.town 11:00-12:00 17:00-18:00 Ontology showcases and demos gather.town Tuesday September, 19th 08:30-09:00 14:30-15:00 Invited talks special session (TBC) Zoom 09:00-10:30 15:00-16:30 Session 2: Methodological issues (Chair: TBA) Zoom 10:30-11:00 16:30-17:00 Coffee break gather.town 11:00-12:00 17:00-18:00 ESAO panel Zoom Wednesday September, 20th 09:00-10:30 15:00-16:30 Session 3: Domain ontologies (Chair: TBA) Zoom 10:30-11:00 16:30-17:00 Coffee break gather.town 11:00-12:00 17:00-18:00 IAOA General Assembly Zoom 12:00-12:15 18:00-18:15 Closing Zoom Details: https://fois2023.griis.ca/onlinesession/ Registration fees ==================== Online presenter: 500 CAN / 340 EUR Listener - regular fee (academia or industry): 100 CAN / 70 EUR Listener - reduced fee (student or participant from less developed country): free More information: https://fois2023.griis.ca/registration/ Conference Organization ======================= General Chair: Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK PC Chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France Torsten Hahmann, University of Maine, USA Local Organization Chair: Jean-François Ethier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Online Chair: Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France Demo & Showcase Chairs: Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, Netherlands Publicity Chairs: Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland Organization: https://fois2023.griis.ca/conference-organization/ _________________________ Dr. Lucía Gómez Álvarez Computational Logic Group Institute for Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Computer Science TU Dresden GERMANY

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CfP - Ordinal Methods for Knowledge Representation and Capture (OrMeKR @ K-CAP 2023)

by Tom Hanika

***** 1st CALL FOR PAPERS*****: First international workshop on *Ordinal Methods for Knowledge Representation and Capture (OrMeKR)* in conjunction with *The Twelfth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2023)* December 5th, 2023, Pensacola, Florida, USA *Submission Deadline: October 15th, 2023* 1.1 Abstract and Scope: ─────────────────────── The concept of order (i.e., partial ordered sets) is predominant for perceiving and organizing our physical and social environment, for inferring meaning and explanation from observation, and for searching and rectifying decisions. Compared to metric methods, however, the number of (purely) ordinal methods for capturing knowledge from data is rather small, although in principle they may allow for more comprehensible explanations. The reason for this could be the limited availability of computing resources in the last century, which would have been required for (purely) ordinal computations. Hence, typically relational and especially ordinal data are first embedded in metric spaces for learning. Therefore, in this workshop we want to collect and discuss ordinal methods for capturing and representing knowledge, their role in inference and explainability, and their possibilities for knowledge visualization and communication. We want to reflect on these topics in a broad sense, i.e., as a tool to arrange, compare and compute ontologies or concept hierarchies, as a feature in learning and capturing knowledge, and as a measure to evaluate model performance. 1.2 Topics of Interest ────────────────────── • Ordinal Aspects for Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Bases • Knowledge Visualization using Order Relations • Ordinal Representation and Analysis of Ontologies • Data Fidelity and Reliability of Ordinal Methods • Theory and Application of Order Dimension and Related Notions • Ordinal Knowledge Spaces and Ordinal Exploration • Scaling and Processing Ordinal Information • Metric Structures in Order Relations • Algorithms for querying Large Ordinal Data • Knowledge Discovery in metric-ordinal Heterogeneous Representation • Ordinal Pattern Structures and Motifs • Methods for Representation Learning of Order Relations • Drawing of Hierarchical Graphs and Knowledge Structures • Non-Linear Ranking in Recommendation Applications • Linear Ordered Knowledge and Learning • Scheduling and Planning • Applications of Ordinal Methods to Scientific Knowledge (e.g., from domains such as Biology, Physics, Social Sciences, Digital Humanities, etc.) • Methodologically Related Fields such as Directed Graphs, Formal Concept Analysis, Conceptual Structures, Relational Data, Recommendation, Lattice Theory, with a Clear Reference to Order Relations and Knowledge 1.3 Important Dates (all dates are AoE) ─────────────────────────────────────── • Submission: October 15, 2023 • Author Notification: October 29, 2023 • Camera Ready: November 12, 2023 1.4 Submission Guidlines and Conditions ─────────────────────────────────────── OrMeKR will focus on contributions to the theory and application of ordinal methods in the realm of knowledge representation and capture. The workshop welcomes *report papers* (summaries of past work concerning ordinal methods), *research papers* (novel results), *position papers* (discussing issues concerning the usefulness of ordinal methods in KR), and *challenge papers* (describing limitations and open research questions). • Submissions should have a minimum of 5 pages and shall not exceed 8 pages. • Submission must use the provided CEUR Template: <https://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ormekr2023/ceur.zip> • The workshop is not double-blind, hence authors should list their names and affiliations on the submission. • Accepted Papers will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings corresponding to K-CAP. • Authors of accepted workshop papers will present their work in plenary sessions during the workshop on December 5th. • Submissions should be emailed to: *[ormekr2023(a)cs.uni-kassel.de]* 1.5 Organizing Committee ──────────────────────── • Tom Hanika ⁃ Institute for Computer Science, University of Hildesheim, Germany ⁃ Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany • Dominik Dürrschnabel ⁃ Knowledge & Data Engineering Group, University of Kassel, Germany • Johannes Hirth ⁃ Knowledge & Data Engineering Group, University of Kassel, Germany 1.6 Program Committee ───────────────────── • Agnès Braud, Université de Strasbourg, France • Diana Christea, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania • Pablo Cordero, University of Malaga, Spain • Bernhard Ganter, TU Dresden, Germany • Rokia Missaoui, University of Quebec in Outaouais, Canada • Robert Jäschke, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany • Giacomo Kahn, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France • Léonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland • Sebastian Rudolph, TU Dresden, Germany • Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany • Francisco J. Valverde-Albacete, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

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Final call for papers for FOCI 2023

by Domingo

(apologies for cross-posting) Final Call for Papers Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI 2023) The 2023 IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI 2023) will take place as part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2023), which is a flagship annual meeting organized by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. It serves as a primary forum for multidisciplinary research in computational intelligence. SSCI 2023 will be held in Mexico City from December 5th to 8th, 2023. The conference proceedings of the SSCI 2023 will be included in the IEEE Xplore and indexed by all major databases. IEEE FOCI’23 provides an ideal forum for those who are interested in the foundational issues of computational intelligence to exchange their ideas and present their latest findings. Participants of FOCI’23 will also benefit from the interaction at one location with the participants of several other symposia running concurrently at IEEE SSCI 2023, each highlighting various aspects of computational intelligence. As a whole, this international event will attract top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence. Topics 1. Fuzzy Logic: Non-standard fuzzy sets; Granular computing; Computing with words; Aggregation/fusion; Fuzzy sets and statistics; Uncertainty; Decision-making; General theoretical issues; Generalisation in neural, fuzzy and evolutionary learning; Fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory; Lattice theory and multi-valued logic; Approximate reasoning; Type-2 fuzzy logic; Rough sets and random sets; Fuzzy mathematics; Fuzzy measure and integral; Possibility theory and imprecise probability 2. Neural Networks and other machine learning techniques: Neural computation; Self-organizing maps; Recurrent networks; Multilayer perceptrons; Deep Learning, convolutional neural networks, GANs.; Autoencoders; Evolutionary neural networks; Neural networks for pattern recognition; Neural netwoks for prediction and optimization; Neural networks for principal component analysis; General regression neural networks; Neural networks as/and fuzzy systems; Radial basis functions; Learning theory; Reinforcement learning; Generalization in neural networks 3. Evolutionary Computation: Theoretical foundations of bio-inspired heuristics; Exact and approximation runtime analysis; Fixed budget computations; Black box complexity; Self-adaptation; Population dynamics; Fitness landscape and problem difficulty analysis; No Free Lunch Theorems; Statistical approaches for understanding the behaviour of bio-inspired heuristics; Computational studies of a foundational nature 4. All bio-inspired search heuristics will be considered for all problem domains including: Combinatorial and continuous optimization; Single-objective and multi-objective optimization; Constraint handling; Dynamic and stochastic optimization; Co-evolution and evolutionary learning Paper submission Each paper should be between 4 and 6 pages, inclusive of figures, tables, and references. All papers must be submitted using the IEEE conference template, found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html To submit your paper, click on “Submit a contribution to SSCI 2023” in https://conf.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl (requires registration) using the symposium code FOCI. In addition, SSCI 2023 offers a “Presentation-Only” option, which requires a two-page abstract. Accepted submissions will be presented orally at the conference and listed in the final program, but will not be available in IEEE Xplore. For more details, please follow the instructions at https://attend.ieee.org/ssci-2023/paper-submission/ Important dates Paper Submissions: July 31, 2023 (no further extensions!) Paper Acceptance: August 31, 2023 Camera-ready Paper: September 20, 2023 Early Registration: September 20, 2023 Conference dates: December 5-8, 2023 Symposium Chairs Domingo López-Rodríguez, University of Malaga, Spain Leonardo Franco, University of Florida, USA Chao Qian, Nanjing University, China

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[OM-2023] 2nd CFP: 18th workshop on Ontology Matching collocated with ISWC

by Cassia TROJAHN

The 18th International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2023) http://om2023.ontologymatching.org/ November 6th or 7th, 2023, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Workshop Program, Athens, Greece BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed with the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve, especially with respect to data interlinking, knowledge graph and web table matching tasks. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2023 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2023/ 3. To examine similarities and differences from other, old, new and emerging, techniques and usages, such as web table matching or knowledge embeddings. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big, open, closed data); Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Novel matching methods, including link prediction, ontology-based access; Matching and knowledge graphs; Matching and deep learning; Matching and embeddings; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Privacy-aware matching; Process model matching; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Expressive alignments; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., data science); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., web tables, knowledge graphs). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2023 campaign. Long technical papers should be of max. 12 pages. Short technical papers should be of max. 6 pages. Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 3 pages. All contributions have to be prepared using the CEUR-ART, 1-column style. Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt, while offline version with the style files is available from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. Submissions should be uploaded in PDF format through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2023 Contributors to the OAEI 2023 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2023/. DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: July 31st, 2023: Deadline for the submission of papers. August 28th, 2023: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 4th, 2023: Workshop camera ready copy submission. November 6th or 7th, 2023: OM-2023, M.A.I.C.C., Athens, Greece. Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS as well as indexed on DBLP. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact) Trentino Digitale, Italy 2. Jérôme Euzenat INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France 3. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz City, University of London, UK & SIRIUS, University of Oslo, Norway 4. Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, USA 5. Cássia Trojahn IRIT, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany Manuel Atencia, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Jiaoyan Chen, University of Oxford, UK Jérôme David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France Daniel Faria, INESC-ID&IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Marko Gulić, University of Rijeka, Croatia Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Naouel Karam, Fraunhofer, Germany Prodromos Kolyvakis, EPFL, Switzerland Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Oliver Lehmberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Hoa Ngo, CSIRO, Australia George Papadakis, University of Athens, Greece Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Portugal Henry Rosales-Méndez, University of Chile, Chile Booma Sowkarthiga, Microsoft, USA Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA Giorgos Stoilos, University of Oxford, UK Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Xingsi Xue, Fujian University of Technology, China Ondřej Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Lu Zhou, TigerGraph, USA ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Cassia

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collecting Jupyter notebooks for FCA

by Uta Priss

Hi, the CoNo-Concepts Workshop at ICFCA showed that there is growing interest in using Jupyter (and other) notebooks for FCA and that creating a page that collects these notebooks may be useful. Since many people host their notebooks on Github, the easiest way to create such a webpage is to add topics to the notebooks because Github automatically generates a page for each topic. My suggestion for such a topic is concept-analysis-notebooks If you add that to your notebook on Github, it will be added to the page https://github.com/topics/concept-analysis-notebooks BTW it is possible to directly execute notebooks without locally installing any software. One only needs to figure out the URL corresponding to a notebook (for example using https://mybinder.org/). For example, if your notebook resides at https://github.com/YOURNAME/YourRepository/folder/name.ipynb and the branch is "main" then it can be executed at https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/YOURNAME/YourRepository/main?urlpath=lab/tree/fo… without installing anything and without requiring any logins. If you include such a link in your description and Readme, then users can find it quickly. Best wishes Uta

1 year, 9 months

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Call for Participation: - JELIA 2023, the 18th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (20-22 of September, 2023)

by Lucia Gomez Alvarez

** Apologies for cross-postings ** ________________ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (REGISTRATION OPEN) ________________ 18th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2023) September 20-22, 2023 TU Dresden, Germany https://jelia2023.inf.tu-dresden.de/ JELIA 2023 will be an in-person event. Registration is now open at https://jelia2023.inf.tu-dresden.de/registration == AIMS AND SCOPE == The aim of JELIA 2023 is to bring together active researchers interested in the use of logics in Artificial Intelligence, in order to discuss current research, results, problems, and applications of both theoretical and practical nature. JELIA strives to foster links and facilitate cross-fertilization of ideas among researchers from various disciplines, among researchers from academia and industry, and between theoreticians and practitioners. == Program == The list of accepted papers is available at https://jelia2023.inf.tu-dresden.de/accepted-papers == INVITED SPEAKERS == Mario Alviano, University of Calabria Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool Franz Baader, TU Dresden Vaishak Belle, University of Edinburgh == CONFERENCE CHAIRS == ** General Chair Sarah Alice Gaggl, TU Dresden, Germany ** Program Chairs Maria Vanina Martinez, IIIA - CSIC, Spain Magdalena Ortiz, Umeå University, Sweden **Local Organization Chairs Marcos Cramer • TU Dresden, Germany Martin Diller • TU Dresden, Germany **Technical Chairs Stefan Borgwardt • TU Dresden, Germany Stefan Ellmauthaler • TU Dresden, Germany **Publicity Chairs Lucía Gómez Álvarez • TU Dresden, Germany Dominik Rusovac • TU Dresden, Germany **Finance Chairs Sarah Alice Gaggl • TU Dresden, Germany Hannes Straß • TU Dresden, Germany For additional questions contact the local organization: jelia2023(a)groups.tu-dresden.de<mailto:jelia2023@groups.tu-dresden.de> Registration is open at https://jelia2023.inf.tu-dresden.de/registration _________________________ Dr. Lucía Gómez Álvarez Computational Logic Group Institute for Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Computer Science TU Dresden GERMANY

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[RecSys 2023] Fifth Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems Workshop (KaRS 2023)

by Vito Walter Anelli

Call for Papers Fifth Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems Workshop (KaRS 2023) https://kars-workshop.github.io/2023/ Sep. 18th - Sep. 22rd, 2023, Singapore Submission deadline: August 3rd, 2023, AoE [SCOPE] We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the Fifth Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems Workshop held in conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023), Singapore, from September the 18th to September the 22nd, 2023. In the last few years, a renewed interest of the research community in conversational recommender systems (CRSs) is emerging. This is probably due to the great diffusion of Digital Assistants (DAs) such as Amazon Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant that are revolutionizing the way users interact with machines. DAs allow users to execute a wide range of actions through an interaction mostly based on natural language messages. However, although DAs are able to complete tasks such as sending texts, making phone calls, or playing songs, they are still at an early stage in offering recommendation capabilities by using the conversational paradigm. In addition, we have been witnessing the advent of more and more precise and powerful recommendation algorithms and techniques able to effectively assess users' tastes and predict information that would probably be of interest to them. Most of these approaches rely on the collaborative paradigm (often exploiting machine learning techniques) and do not take into account the huge amount of knowledge, both structured and non-structured, describing the domain of interest of the recommendation engine. Although very effective in predicting relevant items, collaborative approaches miss some very interesting features that go beyond the accuracy of results and move in the direction of providing novel and diverse results as well as generating an explanation for the recommended items. Furthermore, this side information becomes crucial when a conversational interaction is implemented, in particular for the preference elicitation, explanation, and critiquing steps. The Fifth Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems (KaRS) Workshop focuses on all aspects related to the exploitation of external and explicit knowledge sources to feed and build a recommendation engine, and on the adoption of interactions based on the conversational paradigm. The aim is to go beyond the traditional accuracy goal and to start a new generation of algorithms and approaches with the help of the methodological diversity embodied in fields such as Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL) – including Large Language Models (LLMs) –, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Information Retrieval (IR), Information Systems (IS). Consequently, the focus lies on works improving the user experience and following goals such as user engagement and satisfaction or customer value. The aim of this fifth edition of KaRS is to bring together researchers and practitioners around the topics of designing and evaluating novel approaches for recommender systems in order to: * share research and techniques, including new design technologies and evaluation methodologies; * identify the next key challenges in the area; * identify emerging topics in the field. [TOPICS] This workshop aims at establishing an interdisciplinary community with a focus on the exploitation of (semi-)structured knowledge and conversational approaches for recommender systems and promoting collaboration opportunities between researchers and practitioners. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Knowledge-aware Recommender Systems. - Models and Feature Engineering: - Knowledge-aware data models based on structured knowledge sources (e.g., Linked Open Data, BabelNet, Wikidata, etc.) - Semantics-aware approaches exploiting the analysis of textual sources (e.g., Wikipedia, Social Web, etc.) - Knowledge-aware user modeling - Methodological aspects (evaluation protocols, metrics, and data sets) - Logic-based modeling of a recommendation process - Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning for recommendation engines - Deep learning methods to model semantic features - Large language models (LLMs) for Knowledge-aware Recommender Systems - Beyond-Accuracy Recommendation Quality: - Using knowledge bases and knowledge graphs to increase recommendation quality(e.g., in terms of novelty, diversity, serendipity, or explainability) - Explainable Recommender Systems - Knowledge-aware explanations to recommendations (compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation) - Online Studies: - Using knowledge sources for cross-lingual recommendations - Applications of knowledge-aware recommenders (e.g., music or news recommendation, off-mainstream application areas) - User studies (e.g., on the user's perception of knowledge-based recommendations), field studies, in-depth experimental offline evaluations - Conversational Recommender Systems. - Design of a Conversational Agent: - Design and implementation methodologies - Dialogue management (end-to-end, dialog-state-tracker models) - UX design - Dialog protocols design - Large language models (LLMs) for Conversational Recommender Systems - User Modeling and interfaces: - Critiquing and user feedback exploitation - Short- and Long-term user profiling and modeling - Preference elicitation - Natural language-, multi-modal-, and voice-based interfaces - Next-question problem - Methodological and Theoretical aspects: - Evaluation and metrics - Datasets - Theoretical aspects of conversational recommender systems [SUBMISSIONS] Submissions of full research papers must be in English, in PDF format in the CEUR-WS two-column conference format available at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip or at: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w… if an Overleaf template is preferred. Submission will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the CEUR workshop series. Papers may range from theoretical works to system descriptions. We particularly encourage Ph.D. students or Early-Stage Researchers to submit their research. We also welcome contributions from the industry and papers describing ongoing funded projects which may result useful to the Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems community. The conference language is English. We invite three kinds of submissions, which address novel issues in Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems: * Long Papers should report on substantial contributions of lasting value. The Long papers must have a length of a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 8 pages (plus an unlimited number of pages for references). Each accepted long paper will be included in the CEUR online Workshop proceedings and presented in a plenary session as part of the Workshop program. * Short/Demo Papers typically discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for a long paper. In particular, novel but significant proposals will be considered for acceptance in this category despite not having gone through sufficient experimental validation or lacking a strong theoretical foundation. Applications of recommender systems to novel areas are especially welcome. The Short/Demo papers must have a length of a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 pages (plus an unlimited number of pages for references). Each accepted short paper will be included in the CEUR online Workshop proceedings * Position/Discussion Papers describe novel and innovative ideas. Position papers may also comprise an analysis of currently unsolved problems, or review these problems from a new perspective, in order to contribute to a better understanding of these problems in the research community. We expect that such papers will guide future research by highlighting critical assumptions, motivating the difficulty of a certain problem, or explaining why current techniques are not sufficient, possibly corroborated by quantitative and qualitative arguments. The Position/Discussion papers must have a length of a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 3 pages (plus an unlimited number of pages for references). Original Position/Discussion accepted papers will be included in the CEUR online Workshop proceedings. Selected Position/Discussion papers will be invited as oral presentations. The review process is single-blind. Submitted papers will be evaluated according to their originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. 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Call for next ICFCA 2023 organizer

by Gerd Stumme

Dear all, as you know, this year's Intl. Conf. on Formal Concept Analysis will take place at Kassel. (In case you didn't register yet but want to join, please register now: https://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/icfca2023/ ) At the conference, the Editorial Board will meet and discuss the options for the next venue(s). If you are interested in running the conference, please send me a mail to stumme(a)cs.uni-kassel.de, including the following information: - Location - Name of General Chair - Possible Years and Date(s) Best regards, Gerd -- Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme, Hertie Chair of Knowledge & Data Engineering & Research Center for Information System Design (ITeG) & International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER), University of Kassel & Research Center L3S & The Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI) http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de, Tel. +49 561/804-6251

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FOIS 2023 -> COMING SOON!! Call for Participation (International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems held in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada)

by Lucia Gomez Alvarez

**apologies for cross-postings** ===== Call for Participation to FOIS 2023 conference, workshops and tutorials ===== Program: https://fois2023.griis.ca/program/ Registration deadline: Jul 13, 2023 https://fois2023.griis.ca/registration/ ==================================================================================== 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023), July 17-20, 2023 (Sherbrooke, QC, Canada) and Sept 18-20, 2023 (Online) Important dates ========== Registration deadline: Jul 13, 2023 On site conference: July 17-20, 2023 Definition and scope ==================== The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. FOIS 2023 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies. FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, as well as the Semantic Web. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: http://iaoa.org/), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology. Key Notes Speakers ======== . Deborah McGuinness (Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair and Professor of Computer, Cognitive, and Web Sciences at Rensselaer Poytechnical Institute, Troy, NY) . Michael Gruninger (Professor of Industrial Engineering,Semantic Technologies Laboratory, University of Toronto, Canada) . John Heil (Professor, Department of Philosophy, Washington University, St Louis, and Durham University, UK) Accepted papers: https://fois2023.griis.ca/accepted-papers/ Workshops (as part of the Joint Ontology Workshops) and tutorials ======================== Where next? The present and future of geospatial ontologies Workshop on FAIR Ontologies and Ontologies for FAIR The Integrated Food Ontology Workshop 2023 Ontologies for Services and Society (OSS) 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Management and Process Mining for Law (KM4LAW) 2nd Modular Knowledge Workshop (MK 2023) 7th Workshop on Foundational Ontology (FOUST VII) Tutorial: The Ontology of Parts, Wholes, and Sums, Antony Galton Full program : https://fois2023.griis.ca/program/ ======= Main Conference : July 17-19, 2023 Workshops and tutorials: July 19-20, 2023 Registration fees (early rate until May 22, 2023) ============== Full Conference Academic and indus. early 510€ / 750 Can $ regular 580 € / 850 Can$ Student early 275€ / 400 Can $ regular 310 € / 450 Can$ Workshop Days (July 19-20) Academic and indus. early 260€ / 400 Can $ regular 260 € / 400 Can$ Student early 170€ / 250 Can $ regular 170 € / 250 Can$ more information here: https://fois2023.griis.ca/registration/ Location ======== FOIS 2023 consists of a physical meeting and a virtual meeting: An in-person only meeting in Sherbrooke, Quebec from July 17 to 20, 2023 that will be very much like a traditional conference with keynotes, regular talks, workshops and tutorials and plenty of social and networking opportunities. This part will not have a remote participation option, but we plan on recording selected talks (e.g. keynotes). This will be followed by an online part to be held from September 18 to 20, 2023 that offers an opportunity for presentation and discussion of additional papers that were not presented at the physical meeting in Sherbrooke. Conference Organization ======================= General Chair: Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK PC Chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France Torsten Hahmann, University of Maine, USA Local Organization Chair: Jean-François Ethier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Online Chair: Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy Early Career Chairs: Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE), France Guendalina Righetti, Free University Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Demo & Showcase Chairs: Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, Netherlands Publicity Chairs: Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland Proceedings Chair: Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden Program committee: https://fois2023.griis.ca/conference-organization/ _________________________ Dr. Lucía Gómez Álvarez Computational Logic Group Institute for Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Computer Science TU Dresden GERMANY

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ISAO 2023 -> COMING SOON!! Call for Participation (Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology held in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada)

by Lucia Gomez Alvarez

A gentle reminder of our last Call for Participation for ISAO 2023 [1], = ISAO 2023 [1] - Call for Participation = The Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO) is the premier educational forum for acquiring and deepening knowledge in ontology - its foundations, applications, and interconnections with related areas. Generously sponsored by the AIJ [3]. July 10-14, 2023 University of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada (in person only, _no_ online participation) [1] https://fois2023.griis.ca/isao-2023/ Target audience - PhD students - PostDocs and researchers - Ontology practitioners from business, industry and society Leading experts in applied ontology (AO), formal ontology, modeling, semantics and neighboring fields teach various basic courses as well as engage in interactive formats for deepening the knowledge of all participants, providing a full immersion experience in AO for all levels of expertise. The facilitators Michael Gruninger, Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Robert Hoehndorf, Maria Keet, Oliver Kutz, Asiyah Yu Lin and Barry Smith organize their sessions in four threads and a shared, self-contained tutorial (see below and [1,4]): - Ontological Analysis - Logical Foundations - Cognitive Aspects and Ontology - Methods and Applications + - Introduction to the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) (shared session, self-contained tutorial) The last 1.5 days stress interaction further in up to three parallel tracks of barcamp sessions. == Important Dates & Schedule == - Registration open since: May 01, 2023 (Monday) - Early registration ends: June 11, 2023 (Sunday, EDT applies [5]) - Late registration ends: July 11, 2023 (Tuesday; during ISAO) - Event on July 10-14 -- 3.5 days (July 10-13) of courses (rather introductory) -- 1.5 days (July 13-14) of interactive formats (introductory to advanced) -- see program info below and at [1] We offer 5-day and 2-day registrations (via [2]), the latter aiming at additional networking and exchange during July 13-14, right before FOIS 2023 [6]. Early student fees amount to - 320 CAD|225 EUR|240 USD for all 5 days and - 250 CAD|175 EUR|190 USD for the last 2 days. Please find all fees below (student - academic - industry) or at [1,4]. Cheap accommodation options ease expenses preferentially, but non-exclusively for student participants. Invitation letters (e.g. for visa purposes) will be issued on request to [7] (include your full work address). With any other issues regarding ISAO 2023, please contact us at [8] iaoa.isao2023(a)gmail.com Please feel invited to read more details below and to spread the word within your network. We are looking forward to seeing you join us in July! :-) Best regards, Frank Loebe and Daniele Porello = Details as of end of May 2023 = == Program Content == A tabular program overview/schedule is available at [1,4]. === Ontological Analysis === [Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi] - Methods of formal ontological analysis - Top-level ontological distinctions, categories and relations - Foundational ontologies - OntoUML hands-on === Introduction to the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) === [Barry Smith] - Self-contained tutorial - Shared session with the EINS summer school [9] === Logical Foundations === [Michael Gruninger, Oliver Kutz] - Introductory -- Writing first-order logic (FOL) sentences -- Proofs and models -- Description logics (DLs), incl. relations to the Semantic Web - Advanced -- Ontology verification -- Concept combination, debugging, weakening in DL === Cognitive Aspects and Ontology === [Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Oliver Kutz] - Conceptual modeling and applied ontology - Concepts in cognitive science, semantics and philosophy === Methods and Applications === [Robert Hoehndorf, Maria Keet, Asiyah Yu Lin] - Methods -- Developing good ontologies -- Building ontologies hands-on -- Machine learning/neuro-symbolic AI, semantic similarity and ont. -- Ontology reviewing - Applications -- Introduction to biomedical ontologies and their use -- Bio-ontology tool demonstration -- Ontology-based data access === Special Session === - What are good applied ontology papers? (panel) === Social Program === - Social dinner - Excursion - Pub quiz == Facilitators == Michael Gruninger (Semantic Technologies Lab, University of Toronto, Canada) http://stl.mie.utoronto.ca/ Nicola Guarino (Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) https://www.istc.cnr.it/people/nicola-guarino Giancarlo Guizzardi (Semantics, Cybersecurity and Services, University of Twente, The Netherlands) https://people.utwente.nl/g.guizzardi Robert Hoehndorf (Bio-Ontology Research Group, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi-Arabia) https://cemse.kaust.edu.sa/borg/people/person/robert-hoehndorf Maria Keet (Knowledge Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa) http://www.meteck.org/ Oliver Kutz (Cognitive and Conceptual Modeling Research Group, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) https://www.inf.unibz.it/~okutz/ Asiyah Yu Lin (Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies, NIAID, NIH, Rockville, Maryland, USA) https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/office-data-science-and-emerging-technol… Barry Smith (National Center for Ontological Research, Buffalo, New York, USA) http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/ == Fee Schedule == Fees are valid and payable in CAD. To indicate them in EUR/USD, fees have been approximated assuming 0.70 EUR/0.75 USD per 1 CAD (and rounding up). See [1,4] for a colored, tabular version. Early registration [2] ends on Sunday, June 11, 23:59 EDT/UTC-4 [5]. === student fees === 5 days = July 10-14 - early 320 CAD | 225 EUR | 240 USD - late 390 CAD | 275 EUR | 295 USD last 2 days = July 13-14 - early 250 CAD | 175 EUR | 190 USD - late 300 CAD | 210 EUR | 225 USD === academic fees === 5 days = July 10-14 - early 525 CAD | 370 EUR | 395 USD - late 625 CAD | 440 EUR | 470 USD last 2 days = July 13-14 - early 280 CAD | 200 EUR | 210 USD - late 330 CAD | 235 EUR | 250 USD === industry fees === 5 days = July 10-14 - early 700 CAD | 490 EUR | 525 USD - late 850 CAD | 595 EUR | 640 USD last 2 days = July 13-14 - early 425 CAD | 300 EUR | 320 USD - late 525 CAD | 370 EUR | 395 USD == Expenses & Grants == - budget accommodation available -- in university student housing below 50 CAD/35 EUR/40 USD per night per person (+ local taxes) -- single or double rooms; bathrooms shared with 2-3 rooms; WiFi -- information about reserving rooms follows after registration - as of May 2023, grants are limited to waiving or reducing ISAO fees == Location Details == University of Sherbrooke 2500, boulevard de l'Université Sherbrooke, Québec Canada J1K 2R1 == Associated Events == Co-located with and - preceding FOIS 2023 [6], the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems held from July 17-20 in person and September 18-20 online - sharing the tutorial 'Introduction to BFO' with EINS 2023 [9] the first Interdisciplinary Summer School in Digital Health (École d'été interdisciplinaire en numérique de la santé; primarily in French) Complementing ESAO [10], the Educational Series of Applied Ontology, a continuous series of virtual educational sessions. == Sponsors == As yet we very much thank as sponsors - the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) [3] as well as - ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig [11] for their contributions. == Organization == The ISAO series is run by the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) [12] and is held jointly with FOIS every two years, typically in the week just before. ISAO 2023 is the 5th instance, after 2012/14/16/18 [13] and 5 years of an undesired gap, and is hosted by the University of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. Thanks to local organization support in 2023 by - Jean-François Ethier - Christina Khnaisser - Anne-Marie Cloutier - Angèle Gosselin - Sarah Bilodeau - Maryse Couture - Karine Gagnon - Jeanne Morin General Chairs - Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany) - Daniele Porello (University of Genoa, Italy) == Contact == [8] iaoa.isao2023(a)gmail.com == References == [1] ISAO 2023 website https://fois2023.griis.ca/isao-2023/ [2] ISAO 2023 registration system https://event.fourwaves.com/isao2023/pages [3] Artificial Intelligence Journal https://aij.ijcai.org/ [4] ISAO 2023 advertising slide set (fwd to Google Doc Presentation) https://tinyurl.com/isao2023ad [5] end of early registration deadline (EDT/UTC-4 applies to the date) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20230612T0359 [6] FOIS 2023 website https://fois2023.griis.ca/ [7] ISAO & FOIS 2023 mail address, incl. for letters of invitation fois.2023(a)usherbrooke.ca [8] ISAO 2023 contact to chairs by email iaoa.isao2023(a)gmail.com [9] EINS 2023 website https://eins.griis.ca/ [10] ESAO series website https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO [11] ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig - Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Germany https://scads.ai<https://scads.ai/> [12] IAOA website https://iaoa.org/ [13] ISAO history pages https://iaoa.org/index.php/isao-history/ _________________________ Dr. Lucía Gómez Álvarez Computational Logic Group Institute for Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Computer Science TU Dresden GERMANY

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ACM RecSys 2023 - Second Call for Late-Breaking Results

by acmrecsys＠gmail.com

** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP ** ** For the online version of this Call, visit: https://recsys.acm.org/recsys23/call/lbr ** We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023), the premier venue for research on the foundations and applications of recommendation technologies. The upcoming RecSys conference will be held from September 18–22, 2023 in Singapore, with an inclusive format that accommodates remote attendance. Each accepted contribution is expected to be presented in person. The conference will continue RecSys’ practice of connecting researchers, practitioners, and students to exchange ideas, frame problems, and share solutions across a range of specialties concerned with recommendation. All accepted papers will be published by ACM. The Late-Breaking Results (LBR) track of RecSys offers an opportunity for presenting new, interesting, preliminary results and speculative or innovative work in progress. The track seeks novel contributions that should be published immediately, because they will influence the work of others. The topics listed in the main-track call for papers serve as a reference, but we also encourage submissions with clear relevance to recommender systems that extend this list. Accepted contributions for this track will be presented as posters, where the informal setting encourages presenters and participants to engage in lively discussions about the presented work. All submissions should convey a scientific result or work in progress that is not yet ready to be published as a research paper at a refereed conference, but the preliminary results are already interesting. Accepted submissions will be published as extended abstracts in the ACM RecSys 2023 conference proceedings. Submission Guidelines Submissions should report on new and preliminary contributions. The maximum length is 7 pages (excluding references) in the new single-column format. All submissions and reviews will be handled electronically. Submissions must be submitted to easychair by 23:59, AoE (Anywhere on Earth) by July 3rd, 2023. In addition to these guidelines, the guidelines in the main-track call for papers apply for Formatting, Anonymity, Ethical Review for Human-Subjects Research, Originality, Plagiarism and Patenting. Please make sure that you have read and understood those. SIGCHI SUBMITTER AGREEMENT RecSys 2023 is a SIGCHI conference and making a submission to a SIGCHI conference is a serious matter. Submissions require time and effort by SIGCHI volunteers to organize and manage the reviewing process, and, if the submission is accepted, the publication and presentation process. Thus, anyone who submits to RecSys 2023 implicitly confirms the following statements: 1. I confirm that this submission is the work of myself and my co-authors. 2. I confirm that I or my co-authors hold copyright to the content, and have obtained appropriate permissions for any portions of the content that are copyrighted by others. 3. I confirm that any research reported in this submission involving human subjects has gone through the appropriate approval process at my institution. 4. I confirm that if this paper is accepted, I or one of my co-authors will present the paper at the conference, either in person or through a conference-designated remote presentation option. Papers that are not presented at the conference by an author may be removed from the proceedings at the discretion of the program chairs. Important Dates * LBR submission deadline: July 3rd, 2023 * LBR notifications: July 21st, 2023 * LBR camera-ready paper: July 28th, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. Late-Breaking Results Chairs * Pigi Kouki, RelationalAI, USA * Ruiming Tang, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab * Chao Huang, University of Hong Kong E-mail: demos_lbr2023(a)recsys.acm.org

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Call for Participation: 17th Intl. Conf. on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA 2023)

by Gerd Stumme

================================================================================ ICFCA 2023 17th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis July 17-21, 2023, Kassel, Germany Web: https://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/icfca2023/ ================================================================================ REGISTRATION: https://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/icfca2023/register.html The EARLY-BIRD registration is closing soon: June 15 (AoE) PROGRAM: https://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/icfca2023/program.html ================================================================================ ICFCA will feature exiting INVITED TALKS: * KEYNOTES - Oliver Deussen (University of Konstanz, Germany): How to Visualize Sets and Set Relations - Reinhard Diestel (University of Hamburg, Germany): Tangles: from Wittgenstein to graph minors and back - Jan Konečný (Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic): Formal Concept Analysis in Boolean Matrix Factorization: Algorithms and Extensions to Ordinal and Fuzzy-Valued Data - Manuel Ojeda Aciego (University of Málaga, Spain): On the φ-degree of inclusion - Alessandra Palmigiano (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands): Logical foundations of categorization theory - William T. Trotter (Georgia Tech Institute, USA): Modern Concepts of Dimension for Partially Ordered Sets * LATEBREAKING RESULT TALK - Christian Jäkel (TU Dresden, Germany): Breaking the Barrier: A Computation of the Ninth Dedekind Number The ICFCA Organizing Committee is looking forward to meeting You in Kassel! Gerd Stumme (General Chair) Dominik Dürrschnabel (PC Co-Chair) Domingo López Rodríguez (PC Co-Chair)

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ISAO 2023 -> register early by June 11 (EDT/UTC-4); Call for Participation (Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology held in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada)

by Frank Loebe

A gentle reminder of our last Call for Participation for ISAO 2023 [1], to stress that -> early registration [2] ends on this Sunday, June 11, 23:59 EDT/UTC-4 [5]. (!NOTE the time zone!) = ISAO 2023 [1] - Call for Participation = The Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO) is the premier educational forum for acquiring and deepening knowledge in ontology - its foundations, applications, and interconnections with related areas. Generously sponsored by the AIJ [3]. July 10-14, 2023 University of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada (in person only, _no_ online participation) [1] https://fois2023.griis.ca/isao-2023/ Target audience - PhD students - PostDocs and researchers - Ontology practitioners from business, industry and society Leading experts in applied ontology (AO), formal ontology, modeling, semantics and neighboring fields teach various basic courses as well as engage in interactive formats for deepening the knowledge of all participants, providing a full immersion experience in AO for all levels of expertise. The facilitators Michael Gruninger, Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Robert Hoehndorf, Maria Keet, Oliver Kutz, Asiyah Yu Lin and Barry Smith organize their sessions in four threads and a shared, self-contained tutorial (see below and [1,4]): - Ontological Analysis - Logical Foundations - Cognitive Aspects and Ontology - Methods and Applications + - Introduction to the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) (shared session, self-contained tutorial) The last 1.5 days stress interaction further in up to three parallel tracks of barcamp sessions. == Important Dates & Schedule == - Registration open since: May 01, 2023 (Monday) - Early registration ends: June 11, 2023 (Sunday, EDT applies [5]) - Late registration ends: July 11, 2023 (Tuesday; during ISAO) - Event on July 10-14 -- 3.5 days (July 10-13) of courses (rather introductory) -- 1.5 days (July 13-14) of interactive formats (introductory to advanced) -- see program info below and at [1] We offer 5-day and 2-day registrations (via [2]), the latter aiming at additional networking and exchange during July 13-14, right before FOIS 2023 [6]. Early student fees amount to - 320 CAD|225 EUR|240 USD for all 5 days and - 250 CAD|175 EUR|190 USD for the last 2 days. Please find all fees below (student - academic - industry) or at [1,4]. Cheap accommodation options ease expenses preferentially, but non-exclusively for student participants. Invitation letters (e.g. for visa purposes) will be issued on request to [7] (include your full work address). With any other issues regarding ISAO 2023, please contact us at [8] iaoa.isao2023(a)gmail.com Please feel invited to read more details below and to spread the word within your network. We are looking forward to seeing you join us in July! :-) Best regards, Frank Loebe and Daniele Porello = Details as of end of May 2023 = == Program Content == A tabular program overview/schedule is available at [1,4]. === Ontological Analysis === [Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi] - Methods of formal ontological analysis - Top-level ontological distinctions, categories and relations - Foundational ontologies - OntoUML hands-on === Introduction to the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) === [Barry Smith] - Self-contained tutorial - Shared session with the EINS summer school [9] === Logical Foundations === [Michael Gruninger, Oliver Kutz] - Introductory -- Writing first-order logic (FOL) sentences -- Proofs and models -- Description logics (DLs), incl. relations to the Semantic Web - Advanced -- Ontology verification -- Concept combination, debugging, weakening in DL === Cognitive Aspects and Ontology === [Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Oliver Kutz] - Conceptual modeling and applied ontology - Concepts in cognitive science, semantics and philosophy === Methods and Applications === [Robert Hoehndorf, Maria Keet, Asiyah Yu Lin] - Methods -- Developing good ontologies -- Building ontologies hands-on -- Machine learning/neuro-symbolic AI, semantic similarity and ont. -- Ontology reviewing - Applications -- Introduction to biomedical ontologies and their use -- Bio-ontology tool demonstration -- Ontology-based data access === Special Session === - What are good applied ontology papers? (panel) === Social Program === - Social dinner - Excursion - Pub quiz == Facilitators == Michael Gruninger (Semantic Technologies Lab, University of Toronto, Canada) http://stl.mie.utoronto.ca/ Nicola Guarino (Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) https://www.istc.cnr.it/people/nicola-guarino Giancarlo Guizzardi (Semantics, Cybersecurity and Services, University of Twente, The Netherlands) https://people.utwente.nl/g.guizzardi Robert Hoehndorf (Bio-Ontology Research Group, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi-Arabia) https://cemse.kaust.edu.sa/borg/people/person/robert-hoehndorf Maria Keet (Knowledge Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa) http://www.meteck.org/ Oliver Kutz (Cognitive and Conceptual Modeling Research Group, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) https://www.inf.unibz.it/~okutz/ Asiyah Yu Lin (Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies, NIAID, NIH, Rockville, Maryland, USA) https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/office-data-science-and-emerging-technol… Barry Smith (National Center for Ontological Research, Buffalo, New York, USA) http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/ == Fee Schedule == Fees are valid and payable in CAD. To indicate them in EUR/USD, fees have been approximated assuming 0.70 EUR/0.75 USD per 1 CAD (and rounding up). See [1,4] for a colored, tabular version. Early registration [2] ends on Sunday, June 11, 23:59 EDT/UTC-4 [5]. === student fees === 5 days = July 10-14 - early 320 CAD | 225 EUR | 240 USD - late 390 CAD | 275 EUR | 295 USD last 2 days = July 13-14 - early 250 CAD | 175 EUR | 190 USD - late 300 CAD | 210 EUR | 225 USD === academic fees === 5 days = July 10-14 - early 525 CAD | 370 EUR | 395 USD - late 625 CAD | 440 EUR | 470 USD last 2 days = July 13-14 - early 280 CAD | 200 EUR | 210 USD - late 330 CAD | 235 EUR | 250 USD === industry fees === 5 days = July 10-14 - early 700 CAD | 490 EUR | 525 USD - late 850 CAD | 595 EUR | 640 USD last 2 days = July 13-14 - early 425 CAD | 300 EUR | 320 USD - late 525 CAD | 370 EUR | 395 USD == Expenses & Grants == - budget accommodation available -- in university student housing below 50 CAD/35 EUR/40 USD per night per person (+ local taxes) -- single or double rooms; bathrooms shared with 2-3 rooms; WiFi -- information about reserving rooms follows after registration - as of May 2023, grants are limited to waiving or reducing ISAO fees == Location Details == University of Sherbrooke 2500, boulevard de l'Université Sherbrooke, Québec Canada J1K 2R1 == Associated Events == Co-located with and - preceding FOIS 2023 [6], the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems held from July 17-20 in person and September 18-20 online - sharing the tutorial 'Introduction to BFO' with EINS 2023 [9] the first Interdisciplinary Summer School in Digital Health (École d'été interdisciplinaire en numérique de la santé; primarily in French) Complementing ESAO [10], the Educational Series of Applied Ontology, a continuous series of virtual educational sessions. == Sponsors == As yet we very much thank as sponsors - the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) [3] as well as - ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig [11] for their contributions. == Organization == The ISAO series is run by the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) [12] and is held jointly with FOIS every two years, typically in the week just before. ISAO 2023 is the 5th instance, after 2012/14/16/18 [13] and 5 years of an undesired gap, and is hosted by the University of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. Thanks to local organization support in 2023 by - Jean-François Ethier - Christina Khnaisser - Anne-Marie Cloutier - Angèle Gosselin - Sarah Bilodeau - Maryse Couture - Karine Gagnon - Jeanne Morin General Chairs - Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany) - Daniele Porello (University of Genoa, Italy) == Contact == [8] iaoa.isao2023(a)gmail.com == References == [1] ISAO 2023 website https://fois2023.griis.ca/isao-2023/ [2] ISAO 2023 registration system https://event.fourwaves.com/isao2023/pages [3] Artificial Intelligence Journal https://aij.ijcai.org/ [4] ISAO 2023 advertising slide set (fwd to Google Doc Presentation) https://tinyurl.com/isao2023ad [5] end of early registration deadline (EDT/UTC-4 applies to the date) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20230612T0359 [6] FOIS 2023 website https://fois2023.griis.ca/ [7] ISAO & FOIS 2023 mail address, incl. for letters of invitation fois.2023(a)usherbrooke.ca [8] ISAO 2023 contact to chairs by email iaoa.isao2023(a)gmail.com [9] EINS 2023 website https://eins.griis.ca/ [10] ESAO series website https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO [11] ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig - Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Germany https://scads.ai [12] IAOA website https://iaoa.org/ [13] ISAO history pages https://iaoa.org/index.php/isao-history/

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ESAO Webinar n.08 on Monday, June 12 –- Special Session with James Hampton (London, UK) -- Call for Participation

by Frank Loebe

== ESAO Webinar n.08, Special Session in June 2023 == Dear all, The Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1] is open for everyone and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike (no registration needed). The 8th ESAO webinar will be held as special session on Monday, June 12, 2023 at 14:00 UTC, for up to 75 min (regional times: 10:00 EDT / 16:00 CEST / 16:00 SAST [2]) via Zoom (full connection details at the end of this message) https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/94745672720?pwd=ZjN5bGN6Rlc1UkxBSmQrSHRvVi95QT… Program & Speaker Info ---------------------- 10:00-11:15 EDT / 14:00-15:15 UTC / 16:00-17:15 / 16:00-17:15 SAST (50 min talk + discussion) Title: The psychology and philosophy of concept combination Speaker: James Hampton (City, University of London, UK) [3] SPECIAL SESSION of ESAO: - invited talk in connection with the PhD defense of Guendalina Righetti (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) - actually hybrid, onsite in Bozen-Bolzano and online as ESAO webinar - format: scientific talk Abstract: I will review a wider range of research into the problem of how prototype concepts combine. When nouns are placed in a noun-noun compound, (e.g. CRIMINAL LAWYER) different strategies can be used in English to arrive at a semantic interpretation. I will discuss some of the processes involved, and the effects of stress. The second part of my talk will examine how people interpret logical connectives when applied to vague semantic categories such as Vehicle or Fruit. Finally I will present some new data looking at how people judge a conjunction of two vague predicates, as in "These sunglasses are large and dark" where both size and shade of a set of sunglasses are distributed around a vague boundary. Short Speaker CV: Educated at Cambridge and University College London. Professor of Psychology, City, University of London since 1977. Visiting appointments at Stanford, Cornell, Chicago (as a Fulbright Fellow), Yale, NYU, Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and Utrecht. Over 100 publications on the psychology and philosophy of concepts. Series Description ------------------ The IAOA [4] has created ESAO [1], an 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) [5] (for the next ISAO edition during July 10-14, 2023, please see [6] - ! EARLY REGISTRATION for ISAO 2023 closes on June 11 (EDT) !). 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 [6] and among those primarily (in alphabetical order): * Lucía Gómez Álvarez * Frank Loebe * Sandra Lovrenčić * Cassia Trojahn (Chair) * Laure Vieu Contact E-Mail: info(a)iaoa.org [1] Educational Series on Applied Ontology https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO [2] Session time locally and in further places https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20230510T1400 [3] workpage of James Hampton https://www.city.ac.uk/about/people/academics/james-hampton [4] IAOA website http://iaoa.org/ [5] ISAO History page https://iaoa.org/index.php/isao-history/ [6] ISAO 2023 website https://fois2023.griis.ca/isao-2023/ [7] Entry page of the IAOA Education Technical Committee https://iaoa.org/index.php/faq/education-committee/ Connection Details ------------------ Topic: ESAO 8th Session Topic: 8th ESAO Time: June 12, 2023 04:00 PM Paris Join Zoom Meeting https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/94745672720?pwd=ZjN5bGN6Rlc1UkxBSmQrSHRvVi95QT… Meeting ID: 947 4567 2720 Passcode: 980554 --- Join by SIP • 94745672720(a)zoomcrc.com --- Join by H.323 • 162.255.37.11 (US West) • 162.255.36.11 (US East) • 221.122.88.195 (China) • 115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai) • 115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad) • 213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) • 213.244.140.110 (Germany) • 103.122.166.55 (Australia Sydney) • 103.122.167.55 (Australia Melbourne) • 209.9.211.110 (Hong Kong SAR) • 149.137.40.110 (Singapore) • 64.211.144.160 (Brazil) • 69.174.57.160 (Canada Toronto) • 65.39.152.160 (Canada Vancouver) • 207.226.132.110 (Japan Tokyo) • 149.137.24.110 (Japan Osaka) Meeting ID: 947 4567 2720 Passcode: 980554 --- Join by Skype for Business https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/skype/94745672720

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PhD Position in Data Science for hierarchical data at the University of Kassel

by Gerd Stumme

The Knowledge & Data Engineering Group at the University of Kassel announces an open position for a Research Assistant (salary scale TV-H L13, 100%) in the research project "Towards Ordinal Data Science" under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme. The group's emphasis is on researching and developing methods and algorithms at the confluence of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. The research assistant is expected to research on methods and algorithms for data science on hierarchical data. The Knowledge & Data Engineering Group is member of the Research Center for Information System Design (ITeG) and of the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI). Further information can be found at https://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/ . We welcome talented and highly motivated candidates with a mathematically oriented working style who are interested in interdisciplinary cooperations. We offer a team-oriented research environment, the opportunity to gain teaching experience, and the possibility to publish your research results on an international level. Pursuing a PhD is possible and desired. Applicants to the position must hold a higher-than-average Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or a related field. We expect good knowledge in discrete structures as well as good programming skills in one major programming language. Furthermore, a high social competency and a very good command of the English language are expected. For questions regarding the position please get in touch with Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme (stumme(a)cs.uni-kassel.de). The position is initially limited to three years. The salary amounts to at least 53.000 € gross per year. Please submit your complete application (including all necessary documents and a letter of intent) before 2023-06-30 via the portal where you can also find the complete announcement: https://www.uni-kassel.de/go/tods-ausschreibung -- Prof. Dr. Gerd Stumme, Hertie Chair of Knowledge & Data Engineering & Research Center for Information System Design (ITeG) & International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER), University of Kassel & Research Center L3S & The Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI) http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de, Tel. +49 561/804-6251

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(EXTENDED DEADLINE: 12th June ) KoDis@KR 2023: Workshop on Knowledge Diversity + Special Issue

by Lucia Gomez Alvarez

(Apologies for cross-posting) KoDis: Workshop on Knowledge Diversity ================================== Co-located with the 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2023), September 2-8, 2023 Rhodes, Greece https://kodis23.wordpress.com<https://kodis23.wordpress.com/> == IMPORTANT DATES (EXTENDED) == Workshop paper submission deadline (EXTENDED) : June 12, 2023 (AOE) Workshop paper notification: July 4, 2023 (AOE) Workshop dates: September 2-4, 2023 == AIMS AND SCOPE == KoDis intends to create a space of confluence and a forum for discussion for researchers interested in knowledge diversity in a wide sense, including diversity in terms of diverging perspectives, different beliefs, semantic heterogeneity and others. The importance of understanding and handling the different forms of diversity that manifest between knowledge formalisations (ontologies, knowledge bases, or knowledge graphs) is widely recognised and has led to the proposal of a variety of systems of representation, tackling overlapping aspects of this phenomenon. Besides understanding the phenomenon and considering formal models for the representation of knowledge diversity, we are interested in the variety of reasoning problems that emerge in this context, including reasoning with possibly conflicting sources, interpreting knowledge from alternative viewpoints, consolidating the diversity as uncertainty, reasoning by means of argumentation between the sources and pursuing knowledge aggregations among others. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics of interest. - Philosophical and cognitive analysis of knowledge diversity. - Formal models for the representation of knowledge diversity. - Ontological approaches capturing multiple perspectives and viewpoints. - Context and concept formation in such systems. - Consistency (or not) in multi-perspective systems; assessment and mitigation of inconsistencies. - Communication between knowledge-diverse systems. - Argumentation-based approaches for dealing with inconsistency - Aggregation of diverse or inconsistent knowledge; judgement aggregation. - Uncertainty in the context of knowledge diversity. - Applications of formal models of knowledge diversity. == SUBMISSIONS == We encourage three types of contributions: - Full research papers: Submitted papers must not exceed 14 pages excluding the bibliography, and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Please, note that the minimum length is 10 pages. - Short papers: Submitted papers must not exceed 6 pages excluding the bibliography, and must include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Please, note that the minimum length is 5 pages (including the bibliography). - Extended abstracts (presentation only): should be 2-4 pages long including the bibliography. Please, note that extended abstracts will not be included in the CEUR proceedings. More information at https://kodis23.wordpress.com<https://kodis23.wordpress.com/> == ORGANISATION == Lucía Gómez Álvarez (TU Dresden, Germany) ---- contact: lucia.gomez_alvarez(a)tu-dresden.de Rafael Peñaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) Srdjan Vesic (CNRS, France) _________________________ Dr. Lucía Gómez Álvarez Computational Logic Group Institute for Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Computer Science TU Dresden GERMANY

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ISAO 2023, July 10-14 - Call for Participation (Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology held in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada)

by Frank Loebe

In case you follow ISAO 2023 already, key additions/updates concern: - Program overview and further details, cf. also [1] - Registration - still open [2] (! 'early' until Sun, June 11 !) = ISAO 2023 [1] - Call for Participation = The Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO) is the premier educational forum for acquiring and deepening knowledge in ontology - its foundations, applications, and interconnections with related areas. Generously sponsored by the AIJ [3]. July 10-14, 2023 University of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada (in person only, _no_ online participation) [1] https://fois2023.griis.ca/isao-2023/ Target audience - PhD students - PostDocs and researchers - Ontology practitioners from business, industry and society Leading experts in applied ontology (AO), formal ontology, modeling, semantics and neighboring fields teach various basic courses as well as engage in interactive formats for deepening the knowledge of all participants, providing a full immersion experience in AO for all levels of expertise. The facilitators Michael Gruninger, Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Robert Hoehndorf, Maria Keet, Oliver Kutz, Asiyah Yu Lin and Barry Smith organize their sessions in four threads and a shared, self-contained tutorial (see below and [1,4]): - Ontological Analysis - Logical Foundations - Cognitive Aspects and Ontology - Methods and Applications + - Introduction to the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) (shared session, self-contained tutorial) The last 1.5 days stress interaction further in up to three parallel tracks of barcamp sessions. == Important Dates & Schedule == - Registration open since: May 01, 2023 (Monday) - Early registration ends: June 11, 2023 (Sunday, EDT applies [5]) - Late registration ends: July 11, 2023 (Tuesday; during ISAO) - Event on July 10-14 -- 3.5 days (July 10-13) of courses (rather introductory) -- 1.5 days (July 13-14) of interactive formats (introductory to advanced) -- see program info below and at [1] We offer 5-day and 2-day registrations (via [2]), the latter aiming at additional networking and exchange during July 13-14, right before FOIS 2023 [6]. Early student fees amount to - 320 CAD|225 EUR|240 USD for all 5 days and - 250 CAD|175 EUR|190 USD for the last 2 days. Please find all fees below (student - academic - industry) or at [1,4]. Cheap accommodation options ease expenses preferentially, but non-exclusively for student participants. Invitation letters (e.g. for visa purposes) will be issued on request to [7] (include your full work address). With any other issues regarding ISAO 2023, please contact us at [8] iaoa.isao2023(a)gmail.com Please feel invited to read more details below and to spread the word within your network. We are looking forward to seeing you join us in July! :-) Best regards, Frank Loebe and Daniele Porello = Details as of end of May 2023 = == Program Content == A tabular program overview/schedule is available at [1,4]. === Ontological Analysis === [Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi] - Methods of formal ontological analysis - Top-level ontological distinctions, categories and relations - Foundational ontologies - OntoUML hands-on === Introduction to the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) === [Barry Smith] - Self-contained tutorial - Shared session with the EINS summer school [9] === Logical Foundations === [Michael Gruninger, Oliver Kutz] - Introductory -- Writing first-order logic (FOL) sentences -- Proofs and models -- Description logics (DLs), incl. relations to the Semantic Web - Advanced -- Ontology verification -- Concept combination, debugging, weakening in DL === Cognitive Aspects and Ontology === [Nicola Guarino, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Oliver Kutz] - Conceptual modeling and applied ontology - Concepts in cognitive science, semantics and philosophy === Methods and Applications === [Robert Hoehndorf, Maria Keet, Asiyah Yu Lin] - Methods -- Developing good ontologies -- Building ontologies hands-on -- Machine learning/neuro-symbolic AI, semantic similarity and ont. -- Ontology reviewing - Applications -- Introduction to biomedical ontologies and their use -- Bio-ontology tool demonstration -- Ontology-based data access === Special Session === - What are good applied ontology papers? (panel) === Social Program === - Social dinner - Excursion - Pub quiz == Facilitators == Michael Gruninger (Semantic Technologies Lab, University of Toronto, Canada) http://stl.mie.utoronto.ca/ Nicola Guarino (Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy) https://www.istc.cnr.it/people/nicola-guarino Giancarlo Guizzardi (Semantics, Cybersecurity and Services, University of Twente, The Netherlands) https://people.utwente.nl/g.guizzardi Robert Hoehndorf (Bio-Ontology Research Group, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi-Arabia) https://cemse.kaust.edu.sa/borg/people/person/robert-hoehndorf Maria Keet (Knowledge Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa) http://www.meteck.org/ Oliver Kutz (Cognitive and Conceptual Modeling Research Group, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) https://www.inf.unibz.it/~okutz/ Asiyah Yu Lin (Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies, NIAID, NIH, Rockville, Maryland, USA) https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/office-data-science-and-emerging-technol… Barry Smith (National Center for Ontological Research, Buffalo, New York, USA) http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/ == Fee Schedule == Fees are valid and payable in CAD. To indicate them in EUR/USD, fees have been approximated assuming 0.70 EUR/0.75 USD per 1 CAD (and rounding up). See [1,4] for a colored, tabular version. Early registration [2] ends on Sunday, June 11, 23:59 EDT/UTC-4 [5]. === student fees === 5 days = July 10-14 - early 320 CAD | 225 EUR | 240 USD - late 390 CAD | 275 EUR | 295 USD last 2 days = July 13-14 - early 250 CAD | 175 EUR | 190 USD - late 300 CAD | 210 EUR | 225 USD === academic fees === 5 days = July 10-14 - early 525 CAD | 370 EUR | 395 USD - late 625 CAD | 440 EUR | 470 USD last 2 days = July 13-14 - early 280 CAD | 200 EUR | 210 USD - late 330 CAD | 235 EUR | 250 USD === industry fees === 5 days = July 10-14 - early 700 CAD | 490 EUR | 525 USD - late 850 CAD | 595 EUR | 640 USD last 2 days = July 13-14 - early 425 CAD | 300 EUR | 320 USD - late 525 CAD | 370 EUR | 395 USD == Expenses & Grants == - budget accommodation available -- in university student housing below 50 CAD/35 EUR/40 USD per night per person (+ local taxes) -- single or double rooms; bathrooms shared with 2-3 rooms; WiFi -- information about reserving rooms follows after registration - as of May 2023, grants are limited to waiving or reducing ISAO fees == Location Details == University of Sherbrooke 2500, boulevard de l'Université Sherbrooke, Québec Canada J1K 2R1 == Associated Events == Co-located with and - preceding FOIS 2023 [6], the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems held from July 17-20 in person and September 18-20 online - sharing the tutorial 'Introduction to BFO' with EINS 2023 [9] the first Interdisciplinary Summer School in Digital Health (École d'été interdisciplinaire en numérique de la santé; primarily in French) Complementing ESAO [10], the Educational Series of Applied Ontology, a continuous series of virtual educational sessions. == Sponsors == As yet we very much thank as sponsors - the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) [3] as well as - ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig [11] for their contributions. == Organization == The ISAO series is run by the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) [12] and is held jointly with FOIS every two years, typically in the week just before. ISAO 2023 is the 5th instance, after 2012/14/16/18 [13] and 5 years of an undesired gap, and is hosted by the University of Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. Thanks to local organization support in 2023 by - Jean-François Ethier - Christina Khnaisser - Anne-Marie Cloutier - Angèle Gosselin - Sarah Bilodeau - Maryse Couture - Karine Gagnon - Jeanne Morin General Chairs - Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany) - Daniele Porello (University of Genoa, Italy) == Contact == [8] iaoa.isao2023(a)gmail.com == References == [1] ISAO 2023 website https://fois2023.griis.ca/isao-2023/ [2] ISAO 2023 registration system https://event.fourwaves.com/isao2023/pages [3] Artificial Intelligence Journal https://aij.ijcai.org/ [4] ISAO 2023 advertising slide set (fwd to Google Doc Presentation) https://tinyurl.com/isao2023ad [5] end of early registration deadline (EDT/UTC-4 applies to the date) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20230612T0359 [6] FOIS 2023 website https://fois2023.griis.ca/ [7] ISAO & FOIS 2023 mail address, incl. for letters of invitation fois.2023(a)usherbrooke.ca [8] ISAO 2023 contact to chairs by email iaoa.isao2023(a)gmail.com [9] EINS 2023 website https://eins.griis.ca/ [10] ESAO series website https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO [11] ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig - Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Germany https://scads.ai [12] IAOA website https://iaoa.org/ [13] ISAO history pages https://iaoa.org/index.php/isao-history/

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Last Call for ICFCA 2023 Workshop Contributions

by Johannes Hirth

Dear collegues, We would like to remind you that there will be three workshops and one tutorial at the International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA), July 17-21, 2023, Kassel (Germany). The workshop deadline has been extended to June 8. Please find below a short description for each workshop. For more information on each workshop and the contribution form, please visit the conference website (Link <https://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/icfca2023/workshop-tutorials.html>) and the individual workshop pages (see below). We look forward to hopefully many interesting contributions and to seeing you at the conference. Best regards, ICFCA Workshop Organizers -- *Workshop “Computational Notebooks for FCA (CoNo-Concepts 2023)” *(Link <https://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/icfca2023/cono-concepts.html>) Organizer: Uta Priss Notebooks, in particular Jupyter Notebooks, are becoming increasingly popular as a means for documenting procedures, data, calculations, and findings for data science applications and teaching. In this workshop, FCA researchers will be able to present and learn about experiences with and ideas about using Jupyter Notebooks for FCA research and teaching. *Workshop “Preprocessing and Scaling of Contextual Data – PreSCoD” *(Link <https://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/icfca2023/prescod.html>) Organizers: Tom Hanika, Johannes Hirth, and Ángel Mora Bonilla In the recent years, the development of methods for scaling and cleaning data have lagged behind the general research in Formal Concept Analysis. The PresSCod workshop aims to raise awareness of this problem within the FCA community and beyond. At the same time, the workshop shall motivate researchers to devote some time to this important part of research and to develop novel theoretical and practical insights. *Fake Context Challenge (FCC) *(Link <https://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/icfca2023/fcc.html>) Organizers: Maximilian Felde, Tom Hanika, and Johannes Hirth Data science and machine learning in particular are significantly dependent on the quality of the data. A special problem in this regard at present is the manipulation of data through modification or synthesis. With the proposed Fake Context Challenge (FCC), we want to address this problem and raise awareness, especially among the FCA community. In particular, with the help of the FCC, the development of adequate FCA methods to detect data tampering and data synthetization should be promoted.

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IACT’23@SIGIR: Human or AI? Last CFP

by Hugo Oliveira Sousa

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** ++ CFP: LAST CHANCE TO SUBMIT ++ ============================================================================================================================= The 1st International Workshop on Implicit Author Characterization from Texts for Search and Retrieval (IACT’23) The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Workshop website: https://en.sce.ac.il/news/iact23 Date: July 27, 2023 Location: Taipei, Taiwan. Paper submission deadline: Extended to May 23, 2023, AoE Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iact23 To bring the research community's attention to the limitations of current models in recognizing and characterizing AI vs. human authors, we organize the first edition of IACT workshops under the umbrella of the SIGIR conference. Research works submitted to the workshop should foster scientific advances in all aspects of author characterization. Submission Guidelines: All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome: - Full research papers: up to 8 pages. Original and high-quality unpublished contributions to the theory and practical aspects of the workshop topics. - Short research papers: up to 5 pages. It can describe ongoing research, resources, and demos. - Negative results papers: up to 5 pages. Highlighting tested hypotheses that did not get the expected outcome is also welcomed. - Position papers: up to 5 pages. Discussing current and future research directions. The length constraints do not include references. The submissions must be anonymous and will be peer-reviewed by at least two program committee members. Workshop Format: The authors of accepted papers will be given 15 minutes for a short oral presentation. The workshop will run as a hybrid event to allow virtual attendance and meet the SIGIR format. Workshop Topics: Research works submitted to the workshop should foster the scientific advance on all aspects of implicit author information extraction from text, including but not limited to the following: - Differentiation between AI-generated content and human-generated content and bot profiling - Characterization of conversational agents - Feature detection of authors for human vs. AI determination - Prompt understanding and recognition in language models - Personalized question-answering and conversation generation - Troll identification on social media - Review authenticity estimation - Multi-modal, multi-genre, and multilingual author analysis - Character analysis, description, and representation in narrative texts - Detecting implicit expressions of sentiment, emotion, opinion, and bias - Transfer learning for implicit author characterization - Implicit author characterization annotation schema - Evaluation of implicit author characterization - Author characterization in low-resource languages and under-studied domains - Accountability and regulation of AI-based information extraction, retrieval, and content generation - Copyright issues of AI-generated content - Ethical and privacy implications of author characterization and implicit information extraction - Fairness and bias of AI-generated content Organizing Committee: Marina Litvak - marinal(a)ac.sce.ac.il; Shamoon College of Engineering Beer Sheva; Israel Irina Rabaev - irinar(a)ac.sce.ac.il; Shamoon College of Engineering Beer Sheva; Israel Alípio Mário Jorge - amjorge(a)fc.up.pt; University of Porto; Porto, Portugal Ricardo Campos - ricardo.campos(a)ipt.pt; Polytechnic Institute of Tomar INESC TEC, Portugal; Porto, Portugal Adam Jatowt - adam.jatowt(a)uibk.ac.at; University of Innsbruck; Innsbruck, Austria Invited Speakers: Prof. Mark Last - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Prof. Dr. Valia Kordoni - Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany Contacts: Dr. Marina Litvak: litvak.marina(a)gmail.com Dr. Irina Rabaev: irinar(a)ac.sce.ac.il All the best, Hugo Sousa on behalf of the IATC'23 Organizers

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DEADLINE EXTENDED (Abstract - May 25th; Paper - June 1st) - JELIA 2023, the 18th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence

by Lucia Gomez Alvarez

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** JELIA 2023: Extended deadline notification 18th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2023) September 20-22, 2023 TU Dresden, Germany https://jelia2023.inf.tu-dresden.de/ == IMPORTANT DATES (EXTENDED) == Abstract submission: 25 May 2023 Paper submission: 1 June 2023 Notification of acceptance: 10 July 2023 Camera-ready due: 27 July 2023 The Program Committee of the 18th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2023) invites the submission of technical papers for the conference that will be held in Dresden, Germany, from the 20th to the 22nd of September of 2023. == AIMS AND SCOPE == The aim of JELIA 2023 is to bring together active researchers interested in the use of logics in Artificial Intelligence, in order to discuss current research, results, problems, and applications of both theoretical and practical nature. JELIA strives to foster links and facilitate cross-fertilization of ideas among researchers from various disciplines, among researchers from academia and industry, and between theoreticians and practitioners. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in all areas related to the use of logics in Artificial Intelligence, including, but not limited to: * Abductive and inductive reasoning * Applications of logic-based AI systems * Argumentation * Automated reasoning including satisfiability checking and its extensions * Causality and logics * Computational complexity and expressiveness * Deontic logic and normative systems * Description logics and other logical approaches to ontologies * Knowledge representation, reasoning, and compilation * Learning and reasoning * Logic programming, answer set programming, constraint logic programming * Logics in machine learning * Logics for uncertain and probabilistic reasoning * Logics in multi-agent systems, games, and social choice * Neural networks and logic rules * Non-classical logics, such as modal, temporal, epistemic, dynamic, spatial, paraconsistent, and hybrid logics * Nonmonotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics * Planning and diagnosis based on logic * Preferences and optimization * Reasoning about actions * Updates, belief revision, and nonmonotonic reasoning Submissions describing implemented systems/applications and their application area(s) are also welcome. == SPECIAL TRACK == This year's conference will include a Special Track on Logics for Explainable and Trustworthy AI. We welcome contributions that describe logic-based approaches to making AI more transparent, safer, and more trustworthy. The track aims to draw attention to this timely topic and create a space for discussing the role of logic. The papers accepted for the special track will be presented in dedicated sessions at the conference. == AWARDS == JELIA 2023 is happy to announce that there will be Best Paper and Best Student Paper Prizes sponsored by Springer, each is a cash prize amounting to EUR 500. The Program Committee will select for this honor the contribution of the highest technical excellence and scientific merit. In the case of the latter award, the primary author of the paper must be a student at the time of submission. In previous editions, the best paper of JELIA has been invited to the sister conference track of IJCAI, and the conference series intends to carry on with this tradition. The authors of selected contributions of outstanding quality will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to the TPLP journal and will enjoy fast-track reviewing and publication. == SUBMISSION DETAILS == Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jelia2023 JELIA 2023 welcomes submissions of long or short papers. All submissions should contain original research, and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. Submissions must not have been previously published or be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere; see also the note below. All submissions should not exceed 13 pages for long papers and 6 pages for short papers (excluding references, including everything else, for example figures), and should be written in English. Submissions must be formatted according to the standard Springer LNCS style (see https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…), and are not anonymous. The conference proceedings of JELIA 2023 will be published by Springer Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, a sub-series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (important note: Springer will require all the LaTeX source files of all accepted submissions). == INVITED SPEAKERS == Mario Alviano, University of Calabria Katie Atkinson, University of Liverpool Franz Baader, TU Dresden Vaishak Belle, University of Edinburgh == CONFERENCE CHAIRS == ** General Chair Sarah Alice Gaggl, TU Dresden, Germany ** Program Chairs Maria Vanina Martinez, IIIA - CSIC, Spain Magdalena Ortiz, Umeå University, Sweden **Local Organization Chairs Marcos Cramer • TU Dresden, Germany Martin Diller • TU Dresden, Germany **Technical Chairs Stefan Borgwardt • TU Dresden, Germany Stefan Ellmauthaler • TU Dresden, Germany **Publicity Chairs Lucía Gómez Álvarez • TU Dresden, Germany Dominik Rusovac • TU Dresden, Germany **Finance Chairs Sarah Alice Gaggl • TU Dresden, Germany Hannes Straß • TU Dresden, Germany == POLICY ON MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS == JELIA 2023 will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also required not to submit their papers elsewhere during JELIA's review period. However, these restrictions do not apply to previous workshops with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. Any additional questions can be directed towards the JELIA Chairs: jelia2023(a)easychair.org _________________________ Dr. Lucía Gómez Álvarez Computational Logic Group Institute for Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Computer Science TU Dresden GERMANY

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[meetings][CfP] HHAI2023 26-30 June Call for Registration & Travel funds

by Meer, M.T. van der (Michiel)

Dear Receiver, Sorry for potential cross postings. We invite you to register for HHAI 2023: The Second International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. HHAI 2023 is happening in Munich, Germany on June 26-30 and we’re excited to share the conference program with you: HHAI is a multidisciplinary conference involving involves researchers from various fields like AI, HCI, sociology, psychology and more. HHAI focuses on AI systems that assist humans and vice versa, emphasising the need for adaptive, collaborative, responsible, interactive and human-centred intelligent systems that leverage human strengths and compensate for human weaknesses while considering social, ethical and legal considerations. We are only 5 weeks away from the conference! This year, we have a rich program featuring over 3 keynotes, 34 accepted papers, 17 posters, 4 demos, 8 doctoral colloquium students, 6 workshops, 3 tutorials, 1 hackathon, 2 industrial events, and 2 social events. When? Mon - Fri 26-30 June 2023 (in-person only event) Where? Munich, Germany Fees? Registration is now OPEN (Register by 2 June 2023 to receive the early bird discounts) https://hhai-conference.org/2023/registration/ Need financial assistance? [Application deadline: 26 May 2023] Check the travel grants from https://hhai-conference.org/2023/travel-funds/ Want to help us and get complimentary registration? [Application deadline: 31 May 2023] Check the student volunteers' call https://hhai-conference.org/2023/student-volunteering/ Program? https://hhai-conference.org/2023/program/ Need help in planning? Check local advice from https://hhai-conference.org/2023/conference-venue/ Feel free to pass the invitations to interested individuals. We look forward to hosting you in person in Munich! Warm regards, Paul Lukowicz, DFKI GmbH Sven Mayer, LMU Munich – HHAI 2023 General Chairs –

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FOIS 2023 Call for participation

by Lucia Gomez Alvarez

**apologies for cross-postings** ===== Call for Participation to FOIS 2023 conference, workshops and tutorials ===== Program: https://fois2023.griis.ca/program/ Registration: https://fois2023.griis.ca/registration/ ================================================================= 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023), July 17-20, 2023 (Sherbrooke, QC, Canada) and Sept 18-20, 2023 (Online) Important dates ============= Early registration: May 22, 2023 Regular registration: June 15, 2023 On site conference: July 17-20, 2023 Definition and scope ================ The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. FOIS 2023 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies. FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, as well as the Semantic Web. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: http://iaoa.org/), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology. Key Notes Speakers ================= . Deborah McGuinness (Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair and Professor of Computer, Cognitive, and Web Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY) . Michael Gruninger (Professor of Industrial Engineering,Semantic Technologies Laboratory, University of Toronto, Canada) . John Heil (Professor, Department of Philosophy, Washington University, St Louis, and Durham University, UK) Accepted papers: https://fois2023.griis.ca/accepted-papers/ Workshops (as part of the Joint Ontology Workshops) and tutorials ======================================================= CAOS VII: Cognition And OntologieS<https://caos.inf.unibz.it/> Where next? The present and future of geospatial ontologies<http://stl.mie.utoronto.ca/geospatial2023/home.html> Workshop on FAIR Ontologies and Ontologies for FAIR<https://onto4fair.github.io/> The Integrated Food Ontology Workshop 2023<https://foodon.org/ifow-2023-workshop/> Ontologies for Services and Society (OSS)<https://csse.utoronto.ca/oss2023> 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Management and Process Mining for Law (KM4LAW)<https://km4law.di.unito.it/> 2nd Modular Knowledge Workshop (MK 2023)<https://mk2023.fbk.eu/> 7th Workshop on Foundational Ontology (FOUST VII)<https://foust.inf.unibz.it/foust7/> Tutorial: The Ontology of Parts, Wholes, and Sums<https://fois2023.griis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/AG-tutorial-abstract.p…>, Antony Galton Full program : https://fois2023.griis.ca/program/ ========= Main Conference : July 17-19, 2023 Workshops and tutorials: July 19-20, 2023 Registration fees (early rate until May 22, 2023) ============== Full Conference Academic and indus. early 510€ / 750 Can $ regular 580 € / 850 Can$ Student early 275€ / 400 Can $ regular 310 € / 450 Can$ Workshop Days (July 19-20) Academic and indus. early 260€ / 400 Can $ regular 260 € / 400 Can$ Student early 170€ / 250 Can $ regular 170 € / 250 Can$ more information here: https://fois2023.griis.ca/registration/ Location ======= FOIS 2023 consists of a physical meeting and a virtual meeting: An in-person only meeting in Sherbrooke, Quebec from July 17 to 20, 2023 that will be very much like a traditional conference with keynotes, regular talks, workshops and tutorials and plenty of social and networking opportunities. This part will not have a remote participation option, but we plan on recording selected talks (e.g. keynotes). This will be followed by an online part to be held from September 18 to 20, 2023 that offers an opportunity for presentation and discussion of additional papers that were not presented at the physical meeting in Sherbrooke. Conference Organization =================== General Chair: Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK PC Chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France Torsten Hahmann, University of Maine, USA Local Organization Chair: Jean-François Ethier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Online Chair: Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy Early Career Chairs: Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE), France Guendalina Righetti, Free University Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Demo & Showcase Chairs: Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, Netherlands Publicity Chairs: Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland Proceedings Chair: Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden Program committee: https://fois2023.griis.ca/conference-organization/ _________________________ Dr. Lucía Gómez Álvarez Computational Logic Group Institute for Artificial Intelligence Faculty of Computer Science TU Dresden GERMANY

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Deadline extension: FCA4AI 2023 Workshop (colocated with IJCAI 2023)

by Amedeo Napoli

Sorry for duplicates. See new dates below! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- FCA4AI (Eleventh Edition) -- ``What can FCA do for Artificial Intelligence?'' co-located with IJCAI 2023, Macao, China August 20 2023 http://www.fca4ai.hse.ru/2023 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Information. The preceding editions of the FCA4AI Workshop (from ECAI 2012 until IJCAI-ECAI 2022) showed that many researchers working in Artificial Intelligence are indeed interested by powerful techniques for classification and data mining provided by Formal Concept Analysis. Again, we have the chance to organize the 11th edition of the workshop in Macao, co-located with the IJCAI 2023 Conference. Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematically well-founded theory aimed at data analysis and classification. FCA allows one to build a concept lattice and a system of dependencies (implications and association rules) which can be used for many AI needs, e.g. knowledge processing, knowledge discovery, knowledge representation and reasoning, ontology engineering as well as information retrieval, recommendation, social network analysis and text processing. Thus, there are many ``natural links'' between FCA and AI. Recent years have been witnessing increased scientific activity around FCA, in particular a strand of work emerged that is aimed at extending the possibilities of plain FCA w.r.t. knowledge processing, such as work on pattern structures and relational context analysis, as well as on hybridization with other formalisms. These extensions are aimed at allowing FCA to deal with more complex than just binary data, for solving complex problems in data analysis, classification, knowledge processing... While the capabilities of FCA are extended, new possibilities are arising in the framework of FCA. As usual, the FCA4AI workshop is dedicated to the discussion of such issues, and in particular: - How can FCA support AI activities in knowledge discovery, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, natural language processing... - By contrast, how the current developments in AI can be integrated within FCA to help AI researchers solve complex problems in their domain, - Which role can be played by FCA in the new trends in AI, especially in ML, XAI, fairness of algorithms, and ``hybrid systems'' combining symbolic and subsymbolic approaches. TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to: - Concept lattices and related structures: pattern structures, relational structures, distributive lattices. - Knowledge discovery and data mining: pattern mining, association rules, attribute implications, subgroup discovery, exceptional model mining, data dependencies, attribute exploration, stability, projections, interestingness measures, MDL principle, mining of complex data, triadic and polyadic analysis. - Knowledge and data engineering: knowledge representation, reasoning, ontology engineering, mining the web of data, text mining, data quality checking. - Analyzing the potential of FCA in supporting hybrid systems: how to combine FCA and data mining algorithms, such as deep learning for building hybrid knowledge discovery systems, producing explanations, and assessing system fairness. - Analyzing the potential of FCA in AI tasks such as classification, clustering, biclustering, information retrieval, navigation, recommendation, text processing, visualization, pattern recognition, analysis of social networks. - Practical applications in agronomy, astronomy, biology, chemistry, finance, manufacturing, medicine... The workshop will include time for audience discussion aimed at better understanding of of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: June 02 2023 Notification to authors: June 26 2023 Final version: July 10 2023 Workshop: August 20 2023 SUBMISSION DETAILS: The workshop welcomes submissions in pdf format following the CEURART style 1-column (to be downloaded at https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip). Submissions can be: - technical papers between 8 and 12 pages, - system descriptions or position papers on work in progress not exceeding 6 pages. Submissions are via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fca4ai2023 The workshop proceedings will be published as CEUR proceedings (see preceding editions in CEUR Proceedings Vol-3233, Vol-2972, Vol-2729, Vol-2529, Vol-2149, Vol-1703, Vol-1430, Vol-1257, Vol-1058, and Vol-939). WORKSHOP CHAIRS: Sergei O. Kuznetsov National Research University Higher Schools of Economics, Moscow, Russia Amedeo Napoli Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, Nancy, France Sebastian Rudolph Technische Universität Dresden, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE (under construction) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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