CfP: Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO-15), IJCAI-15, Buenos Aires

[Stefano Borgo]

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Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO-15)
-- Episode 1: The Argentine Winter --
Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-31, 2015
	in conjunction with IJCAI 2015
		http://iaoa.org/jowo

	--- First Call for Papers ---

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    Submission deadline: April 27, 2015
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This first edition of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO-15) combines 
four exciting ontology-centered workshops at IJCAI-15. Together with 
ontology work presented at IJCAI itself, we will transform Buenos Aires 
for a week into the largest venue for ontology research of the year.

JOWO-15 is supported by the International Association for Ontology and 
its Applications - IAOA. It will feature a series of (shared) invited 
talks, paper presentations, and discussions spread across four 
independent full-day workshops run over a period of three days:

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Workshop on Formal Ontologies for Artificial Intelligence (FOfAI)
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http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/fofai
chairs: Stefano Borgo, Oliver Kutz, and Daniele Porello

FOfAI aims to establish a venue for researchers in AI with a strong 
interest in applied ontology. In particular, we aim to foster an 
interdisciplinary discussion and cross-fertilization among a number of 
communities by proposing a venue to exchange foundational, 
methodological, and applicative perspectives. The workshop thus 
encourages submission of articles on both theoretical, computational, 
and linguistic issues in the use of ontologies in AI as well as the 
concrete use of non-trivial ontologies in AI systems and applications.
FOfAI is generously sponsored by the Association for Logic, Language and 
Information - FoLLI.

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9th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO 2015)
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http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/kenb/womo2015/
chairs: Kenneth Baclawski, Torsten Hahmann, Pavel Klinov, Adila Krisnadhi

This workshop brings together researchers from all subareas of AI and 
from related disciplines and application domains to discuss latest and 
current work on theoretical and practical aspects of modularity in 
ontologies. Topics include modularity as enabling technology for 
knowledge repositories and collaborative knowledge development 
environments and as a tool for reducing the complexity of designing and 
understanding ontologies, and to facilitating ontology verification, 
reasoning, maintenance and integration.

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1st Workshop on Belief Change and Non-Monotonic Reasoning in Ontologies 
and Databases
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https://ontochange.wordpress.com
chairs: Eduardo Fermé, Thomas Meyer and Renata Wassermann

This workshop will bring together researchers working in the areas of 
logic-based ontologies, belief change, and database systems, along with 
researchers working in relevant areas in non-monotonic reasoning, 
commonsense reasoning, and paraconsistent reasoning. Hence the workshop 
will facilitate discussions on the application of existing work in 
belief change, non-monotonic reasoning, commonsense reasoning, and 
related areas on the one hand, to logic-based ontologies and databases 
on the other.

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Ontologies and logic programming for query answering
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http://ontolp.lsis.org/
chairs: Odile Papini, Marie-Laure Mugnier, Laurent Garcia, Salem Benferhat

The aim of this workshop is to bridge knowledge representation and 
reasoning in artificial intelligence and web of knowledge communities in 
order to encourage the emergence of new solutions for reasoning with 
lightweight ontologies. Particular topics include query answering while 
taking ontologies into account and
non­monotonic reasoning for inconsistency handling and exception 
handling and expressing default negations in ontologies, with a special 
interest in logic programming for implementations.


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission:  April 27, 2015
Notification:  May 20, 2015
Camera ready: May 30, 2015
Workshop: July, 2015

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please refer to the individual workshops for detailed lists of topics 
appropriate for each workshop.
Submissions can be long papers (up to 8 pages) or short papers (up to 4 
pages), formatted using the AAAI style (available from 
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php), submitted in PDF 
format no later than the submission deadline.
All submission are handled through Easychair. Use 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo15 for submissions to any 
of the first three workshops, and select the track that corresponds to 
the workshop most appropriate for your work. For the last workshop 
“Ontologies and logic programming for query answering”, submissions are 
handled separately through 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontolp2015
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the program 
committee of the individual workshops. Accepted papers will be made 
available in the form of a joint workshop proceedings. For additional 
publication plans check the individual workshops.