IAOA Supported Events

3rd World Congress on the Square of Opposition

2012-03-12T11:29:00.000-07:00

3rd World Congress on the Square of Opposition
Beirut, Lebanon - June 26-29, 2012

http://www.square-of-opposition.org/start3.html

The Square : a Central Object for Thought

The square of opposition is a very famous theme related to Aristotelian logic dealing with the notions of opposition, negation, quantification and proposition. It has been continuously studied by people interested in logic, philosophy and Aristotle during two thousand years. Even Frege, one of the main founders of modern mathematical logic, uses it.

Some people have proposed to replace the square by a triangle, on the other hand the square has been generalized into more complex geometrical objects: hexagons, octagons and even polyhedra and multi-dimensional objects.

Aim of the Congress

This will be the 3rd world congress organized about the square of opposition after very succesful previous events in Montreux, Switzerland 2007 and in Corté, Corsica 2010. This is an interdisciplinary event gathering logicians, philosophers, mathematicians, semioticians, artists, cognitivists, and computer scientists.

The meeting will end by a final round square table where subalterned people will express their various contrarieties, subcontrarieties and contradictions.

IAOA champion and EC liaison: Oliver Kutz

1st Workshop onWell-founded Everyday Ontologies - Design, Implementations & Applications (WEO-DIA)

2012-03-12T00:20:00.001-07:00

1st Workshop onWell-founded Everyday Ontologies – Design, Implementations & Applications (WEO-DIA)

Wrocław, Poland, September 9, 2012

http://www.fedcsis.org/weo-dia

The aim of the workshop is to gather researchersand practitioners interested in answering the posed question. Particularly, wesingle out three main scientific areas, for which research feedback isexpected.

The first domain of interest addresses the designand implementation of ontological structures that are strongly influenced byphilosophy, but are still reasonably applicable. The area includes foundationalapproach driven ontology creation strategies for concrete domains andapplications.

The linguistic investigations concerning nationaland multi-language semantic lexicons provide, among other resources, also thetop-level ontologies. The second considered research area addresses the problemof using such ontologies (possibly accompanied by other linguistic resources)to build well-founded and tractable domain conceptual models.

Most ontology-building approaches proposed bycomputer engineers employ algorithimcs (i.e. data mining, machine learningetc.). Even though they benefit from the automation at the same time theysuffer from the bad (ontic) quality of obtained ontologies. Thus, issuesconcerned with bridging the gap between bottom-up automatically engineeredontologies and foundational/top-level manually created ones, constitute thethird scientific area we are strongly interested in.

These topics are strongly recommended but are notlimited to:
· foundational approach-drivenpractical ontologies
· foundational issues ofontologies: identity, change, vagueness, granularity, kinds of entities, basicrelations in the context of applications
· linguistic top-level ontologiesin practice
· relations between computationallexicons and thesauri and ontologies
· bridging the gap betweenbottom-up automatically engineered and foundational ontologies
· ontology integration andcomparison
· experiments with well-foundedontologies in different application areas

The workshop is associated with the 7thInternational Symposium: Advances in Artificial Intelligence andApplications (AAIA'12), that is a partof Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information
Systems (FedCSIS), to be held in Wrocław, Poland, 9-12 September 2012, under auspices of Polish Ministry of Science andHigher Education.

Important Dates
Paper submission: April 22, 2012
Author notification: June 17, 2012
Final submission and registration: July 8, 2012

IAOA champions: Pawel Garbacz (Co-chair) + Stefano Borgo (EC liaison)

9th International Conference on Terminology and Artificial Intelligence (TIA 2011)

2011-11-07T02:50:00.000-08:00

9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TERMINOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
9ème conférence internationale Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle
Multilingual terminology at the crossroads

Paris, 8-10 November 2011
http://tia2011.crim.fr/Home.html

It is widely held that we are living in an era in which global communication technology has enabled us to transcend borders and that we are witnessing the advent of a global community. Although this oft-repeated claim is not without foundation, it is also an undeniable reality that one of the greatest obstacles to global communication -- the language barrier -- remains almost intact and manifests itself in every facet of global communication.
Parallel to this, certain trends - which perhaps emerged quite a while ago - have intensified to such an extent that they have become issues of serious concern.
One is the fragmentation not only of scientific subjects but also of non-scientific activities, and the accompanying subdivision of communications, even within a single
language. The other is the massively reduced life expectancy of terms in cutting-edge spheres. It is not uncommon to find that a set of terms one learned several years ago is no longer in use.

While multilingual terminology is a well-established research topic, these changes in the environment in which the topic is situated have given it a new dimension and increased the challenges involved in researching it. It is against this backdrop that we chose multilingual aspects of terminology as the central topic for TIA 2011, while at the same time welcoming a broad range of related topics.

TIA 2011 will be the ninth event in the successful series which started out as a predominantly francophone conference. The conference has gradually attracted a wider audience and over the past six years it has grown to be a truly international conference.
The TIA conferences attract researchers mainly from corpus linguistics, terminology, ontology and knowledge representation, natural language processing, and knowledge engineering.

The 2011 edition will be organized by M. Valette from CRIM-INALCO in Paris on Nov 8th and 9th. The conference chairs are Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan) and Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS & CRIM-INALCO, Paris, France).

TIA 2011 will include two workshops on Nov. 10th:
- Terminology for extracting subjective information
- Ontology and Lexicon: new insights

IAOA champions: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (PC Member) + Laure Vieu (EC liaison)

SHAPES 1.0 - The Shape of Things

2011-06-05T12:25:00.000-07:00

SHAPES 1.0 workshop,
at CONTEXT 2011, September, Karlsruhe, Germany.

http://www.sfbtr8.spatial-cognition.de/cosy/Events/shapes/

Abstracts due: August 15
Full papers due: August 30
Workshop date: September 26/27

Shape, Form, and Structure are some of the most elusive notions within many different disciplines ranging from the natural sciences through engineering to art. Several approaches have been proposed to study the notions of shape, form and structure from different viewpoints, yet a comprehensive formal treatment of these notions is currently lacking and no real interdisciplinary perspective has been put forward.

This workshop will serve as an interdisciplinary platform for the discussion of all topics connected to shape (broadly understood): perspectives from psycho-linguistics, ontology, computer science, mathematics, aesthetics, cognitive science and beyond are welcome to contribute and participate.

We seek to provide a forum to stimulate and facilitate an active exchange on interdisciplinary applications, ideas, approaches, and methods in the area of modelling shape, form, pattern and function. The format of the workshop will combine invited speakers, peer-reviewed full contributions, as well as short position papers and posters, and will allow ample time for open discussions amongst the participants.

IAOA champions: Mehul Bhatt (Co-Organizer) + Oliver Kutz (EC liaison, Co-Organizer)

Deep Knowledge Representation Challenge Workshop, KCAP 2011

2011-06-01T11:54:00.000-07:00

Deep Knowledge Representation Challenge Workshop

Co-located with K-CAP 2011
Date: June 26, 2011
Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada

https://sites.google.com/site/dkrckcap2011/

This workshop will provide a forum to discuss difficult problems in representing complex knowledge needed to support deep reasoning, question answering, explanation and justification systems. The goals of the workshop are: (1) to create a comprehensive set of knowledge representation (KR) challenge problems suitable for a recurring competition, and (2) begin to develop KR techniques to meet those challenges.

IAOA champion: Vinay Chaudhri
IAOA EC liaison: Peter Yim

Ontology between Philosophy and Computer Science

2011-04-13T08:03:00.000-07:00

Symposium "Ontology between Philosophy and Computer Science"
at the 14th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science
(CLMPS-2011)
Nancy, France, July 19–26, 2011

https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Groups/OntoMed/Public/OntologySymposium2011

This symposium is devoted to the role of ontology as a bridge between
philosophy and knowledge engineering. These days, ontology exhibits two main
directions: the traditional philosophical understanding of ontology and a
new computer-based understanding of ontology which is related to knowledge
engineering. There are scholars from both fields contending that ontology in
knowledge engineering and ontology in philosophy are two completely
different disciplines. We shall try to show in this workshop that – despite
their different languages and different points of departure – ontologies in
knowledge engineering (let us say: ontology as technology) and ontology in
philosophy (let us say: ontology as categorial analysis) have numerous
problems in common. And for this reason, engineers and philosophers must
devise ways to talk to each other.

IAOA champions: Heinrich Herre (Co-Organizer) + Oliver Kutz (EC liaison)

OBML 2011 - Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences

2011-04-12T10:08:00.000-07:00

Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences (OBML) 2011
October 6-7, Charité, Berlin, Germany. Co-located with INFORMATIK 2011.

https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/Gruppen/OBML/Workshops/2011en

The series "Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences" (OBML) was
initiated by the Working Group for OBML of the German Society for Computer
Science in 2009. The OBML aims to bring together scientists who are working
in this area to exchange ideas and discuss new results, to start
collaborations and to initiate new projects. It is held once annually and
deals with all fundamental aspects of biomedical ontologies as well as
additional hot topics. In 2011, such a topic is "Phenotype ontologies in
medicine and biomedical research".

IAOA champions: Heinrich Herre (Chair) + Oliver Kutz (EC liaison)

Workshop "Philosophy & Engineering - Formal knowledge facing history, technology and materiality"

2011-03-08T02:01:00.000-08:00

Workshop "Philosophy & Engineering. Formal knowledge facing history, technology and materiality." (Atelier "Philosophie & Ingénierie. Le formel face à l’histoire, la technologie et la matérialité.")

http://web-and-philosophy.org/atelier-philosophie-et-ingenierie-ic-2011/

Workshop at IC 2011 - 22^nd French national conference on Knowledge Engineering (22^èmes Journées francophones d’Ingénierie des Connaissances)
http://ic2011.liris.cnrs.fr/

Chair: Alexandre Monnin (alexandre DOT monnin AT web-and-philosophy.org/Alexandre DOT Monnin AT malix.univ-paris1.fr>)
Location and date: Chambéry (France), May 16-17, 2011
Hosted by the AFIA joint Conferences in Artificial Intelligence.

Knowledge engineering has a tradition of reusing concepts belonging to the philosophical tradition. In a sense, one could go as far as to say that it is a "continuation of philosophy through other means and methods". As a consequence, the objects it inherits undergo many deep transformations. What is conversely at stake for philosophy is to understand how its concepts are modified in a context where technology is paramount. The Web exemplifies this trend and yet adds another layer of complexity, as betokens the expression "philosophical engineers" forged by Tim Berners-Lee himself to describe the people who created the Web and characterize their work. This workshop would like to explore the links between philosophy and engineering both from a theoretical and practical point of view and reconsider the activity of practicing philosophy at the present time.

IAOA champions: Alexandre Monnin (Organizer) + Laure Vieu (EC)

IC 2011 - 22nd French national conference on Knowledge Engineering

2011-01-26T10:48:00.000-08:00

IC 2011 - 22nd French national conference on Knowledge Engineering
(22^èmes Journées francophones d’Ingénierie des Connaissances)
http://ic2011.liris.cnrs.fr/

Conference Chair: Alain Mille (alain.mille@liris.cnrs.fr)
Location and date: Chambéry (France), May 20-27, 2011
Hosted by the AFIA joint Conferences in Artificial Intelligence.

Organized every year since 1997 by the Gracq (Group of Research in Knowledge Acquisition), the IC conference constitutes a place of exchanges and reflections of the French-speaking Knowledge Engineering community. The development of the Sciences and Technologies of Information and Communication, in particular Web technologies, in the whole society engenders transformations in the individual and collective practices. The Knowledge Engineering techniques accompany this evolution, by inventing the theories, the methods and the tools allowing the integration of the "knowledge" dimension in computing environments where the plasticity and the capacity to integrate the activities become cardinal virtues.

Knowledge Engineering models, among which ontologies are key structures, are renewed and integrate more and more the dynamic dimension of the computer-based activities and to the massification of the practices. The conference is the opportunity to confront the theories, the models, the methods, the tools, the observations of the practices bound to these evolutions and which will allow going further.

IAOA champions: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (PC member) + Laure Vieu (EC)

Workshop on Modular Ontologies - WoMO 2011

2010-12-16T15:09:00.000-08:00

Workshop on Modular Ontologies WoMO 2011. Co-located with ESSLLI 2011, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1-12 August 2011.

Modularity, as studied for many years in software engineering, allows mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalization, structuring, maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. Applied to ontology engineering, modularity is central not only to reduce the complexity of understanding ontologies, but also to facilitate ontology maintenance and ontology reasoning.

The workshop follows a series of successful events that have been an excellent venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest work and current problems, and is this time organised as a satellite workshop of ESSLLI 2011.

http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~okutz/womo5/

IAOA champions: Oliver Kutz (Workshop co-chair) + John Bateman (EC)

AOW 2010: The Sixth Australasian Ontology Workshop

2010-11-01T06:49:00.000-07:00

AOW 2010: The Sixth Australasian Ontology Workshop http://krr.meraka.org.za/~aow2010/

Held in conjunction with the 23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2010) http://ai10.cis.unisa.edu.au/

Workshop Date: Tuesday, 7 December 2010

The use of formal ontologies in knowledge systems has many advantages.It allows for an unambiguous specification of the structure ofknowledge in a domain, enables knowledge sharing and, as a result,makes it possible to perform automated reasoning about ontologies. Inrecent years there has been a worldwide increase in the use ofontologies, both in industry and in research laboratories. There is agrowing community of researchers in the Australasian region working onvarious aspects of ontologies. The primary aim of this workshop is tobring together ontology researchers in the region.

IAOA champions: Markus Stumptner (PC member) + Riichiro Mizoguchi (EC)

3º Seminário de pesquisa em Ontologia no Brasil - August 30-31, 2010

2010-09-16T05:09:00.000-07:00

3º Seminário de pesquisa em Ontologia no Brasil (ONTOBRAS)
August 30-31, 2010, Florianopolis, SC, Brazil

http://www.egc.ufsc.br/ontobras/

IAOA champions: Fernando Ostuni-Gauthier (Coordinator) + Giancarlo Guizzardi (EC)

International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO) - July 26-30, 2011

2010-09-16T04:54:00.000-07:00

International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO)
July 26-30, 2011, University at Buffalo, NY, USA

Ontologies are being used in an ever increasing variety of ways by researchers in almost every life science discipline, and their use in annotation of both clinical and experimental data is now a common technique in integrative translational research. Principles-based ontologies are being developed for the description of biological and biomedical phenomena of almost every different type. To be maximally effective, such ontologies must work well together. But as ontologies become more commonly used and as their breadth of coverage increases, the problems involved in achieving coordination in ontology development become ever more urgent. The ICBO conference series was initiated in 2009 to address these problems by providing an overarching forum bringing together representatives of all major communities involved in the development and application of ontologies in biomedicine and related areas.

http://icbo.buffalo.edu/

IAOA champions: Barry Smith (Chair) + Mark Musen (AB)

PhiloWeb 2010 - October 16, 2010

2010-09-16T03:26:00.000-07:00

PhiloWeb 2010 - The First Web & Philosophy International Symposium. October 16th, 2010, Paris, France
The Web as we know it exists thanks to the interplay of many disciplines and schools of thought. Philosophy, as betoken the many references to formal semantics, ontology, the question of identity and meaning, or proper names in the architecture of the Web, has played a major part in its advancement even though too few philosophers are aware of this fact. The ambition is to shed light on this dynamic in order to foster future collaborations between philosophers, computer scientists and engineers and eventually shape a new discipline with its own research programme.
http://web-and-philosophy.org/

IAOA champions: Alexandre Monnin (Conference co-organizer) + Laure Vieu (EC)

VORTE 2010 - October 25-29, 2010

2010-09-16T03:16:00.000-07:00

VORTE 2010 - Joint 5th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE) - International Workshop on Metamodels, Ontologies and Semantic Technologies (MOST) in conjunction with the Fourteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference "The Enterprise Computing Conference"

25-29 October 2010, Vitória, ES, Brazil

The objective of VORTE-MOST 2010 is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the relation between ontology and information models, and theoretical topics such as formal ontology, formal logics, conceptual modelling, enterprise computing, computational linguistics, cognitive science, knowledge representation, the Semantic Web, and MDE (Model-Driven Engineering), as well as more practical topics as a result of applications of ontologies in diverse fields, such as knowledge management, informatics for education, ontology-based information and database integration, information processing (retrieval, classification and extraction), to mention just a few.
Derived from VORTE’s tradition, the joint workshop has a specific interest in the application of Ontologies, Vocabularies and Rules in the context of enterprise systems. Furthermore, in this year’s joint edition of the workshops we are giving a special attention to ontological aspects related to notion of services. This includes ontological analyses of the domain of services as well as of service reference models and modeling languages. But also, from a complimentary perspective, this scope includes engineering aspects of Ontology-Based Service-Oriented Modeling and Computing.

http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br/vorte2010

IAOA champions: Fred Freitas (Workshop co-chair) + Giancarlo Guizzardi (EC)

EKAW 2010 Workshop on Ontology Quality - October 15, 2010

2010-09-09T09:48:00.000-07:00

EKAW 2010 Workshop on Ontology Quality. 15th October 2010 - Lisbon, Portugal

Ensuring the quality of the ontologies built and the processes used for its design and implementation would certainly contribute to higher quality semantic systems and to the success of the Semantic Web, and to move ontology engineering towards an engineering field. Addressing quality in Engineering means to address a series of different aspects ranging from the construction process to the final product. Recently, for example, the success of social networks is converting social aspects of ontology building and use in to a new quality indicator. The objective of this workshop is to serve as a forum for sharing the most recent efforts and experiences in this area, disseminating the current best practices and discussing the directions that the field should take. Therefore, this workshop is oriented to any researcher or practitioner working or interested in areas such as methods and tools for evaluating the technical and content quality of ontologies, best (and worst practices), methods and tools for improving ontology construction processes, to name but a few.

http://miuras.inf.um.es/ontoqual2010/index.html

IAOA champions: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (Workshop co-chair) + Laure Vieu (EC)