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
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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
Special issue on Ontology Matching and Machine Learning
https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-issue-ontology-matching-a…
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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.
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Themes and Topics
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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
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Deadline
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Submission deadline: 20th February 2024. Papers submitted before the deadline will be reviewed upon receipt.
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Author Guidelines
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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.
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Guest Editors
The guest editors can be reached at om-ml(a)googlegroups.com .
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Cássia Trojahn, IRIT, France
Sven Hertling, University of Mannheim, Germany
Huanyu Li, Linköping University, Sweden
Oktie Hassanzadeh, IBM Research, USA
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Guest Editorial Board
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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
[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
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< 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 >
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[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
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/
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
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/
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
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>
> Topic: ESAO 10th
> Time: Dec 19, 2023 03:00 PM Paris
>
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*** 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)
== 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)
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Program & Speakers Info
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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)
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Topic: ESAO 10th
Time: Dec 19, 2023 03:00 PM Paris
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*Call for Papers*
13th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems – FoIKS 2024
https://foiks2024.github.io/
Extended Deadlines
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(Extended) Abstract submission deadline: 11.12.2023 AoE ("anywhere on earth")
(Extended) Paper submission deadline: 14.12.2023 AoE ("anywhere on earth")
Invited Speakers
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* 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All questions about submissions should be emailed to foiks24(a)easychair.org.
https://foiks2024.github.io/
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Dr. Lucía Gómez Álvarez
Computational Logic Group
Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Faculty of Computer Science
TU Dresden
GERMANY