2nd Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals: 5th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2019), Graz, Austria

[Adrien Barton]

(with apologies for cross-posting)

JOWO 2019 @ Graz, Austria
Episode V: The Styrian Autumn
Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

* Submission deadline: January 15th, 2019 *

The International Association for Ontology and its Applications, IAOA,
invites proposals for workshops and tutorials for the 5th Joint
Ontology Workshops, JOWO 2019, to be held in Graz, Austria, on
September 23-25, 2019.

Workshops and tutorials at JOWO 2019 are events whose scientific
program is independently established by the workshop organizers. They
will be responsible for advertising the workshop and reviewing and
selecting the contributions. Workshops can be events that provide a
forum for the discussion of topics related to formal ontology and its
application in information science or other areas. We welcome
proposals from related areas as much as contributions by IAOA Special
Interest Groups and Technical Committees.

Previous JOWO editions were held in conjunction with FOIS 2018 in Cape
Town (South Africa), as an independent event in 2017 in Bolzano
(Italy), in conjunction with FOIS 2016 in Annecy (France), and at
IJCAI 2015 in Buenos Aires (Argentina).

As in earlier years, all contributions to JOWO workshops will be
published in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, as part of the new IAOA
series (http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html):
JOWO 2018: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2205/
JOWO 2017: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2050/
JOWO 2016: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1660/
JOWO 2015: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1517/

Together, the JOWO workshops address a wide spectrum of topics related
to ontology research, ranging from Cognitive Science to Knowledge
Representation, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence,
Logic, Philosophy, and Linguistics. JOWO is especially suitable for
interdisciplinary and innovative formats.

Researchers and practitioners interested in the theory, practice,
development and/or application of ontologies are invited to submit
workshop proposals for review.

We encourage several forms and length of workshops (the list is non-exhaustive):
- workshops that focus on an established research area, including
continuations of workshops that were already held in the past;
- workshops that focus on emerging topics and applications, or on open
research questions and challenges;
- workshops that aim to create cross-disciplinary research fostering
exchange of ideas between groups otherwise mostly disconnected.

Organizers of workshops from former JOWO editions already expressed
interest to re-organize the following workshops for JOWO 2019:
- BOG (Bad Ontology)
- CREOL (Contextual Representation of Objects and Events in Language)
- DAO (Data Meets Applied Ontology)
- FOUST (Workshop on Foundational Ontology)
- ODLS (Ontology and Data in Life Sciences)
- SHAPES (The Shape of Things)
- WINKS (Workshop on Interaction-Based Knowledge Sharing)
- WoMoCoe (International Workshop on Ontology Modularity,
Contextuality, and Evolution)


SUBMISSION

Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be no more than 2 pages
in length, and must contain the following information:
- title of the workshop/tutorial;
- names of the workshop/tutorial organizers;
- brief description of experience in workshop/tutorial organization;
- description of the workshop/tutorial topic;
- intended duration of the workshop (between half a day and two full days);
- timeline for the workshop (submission dates, notification dates),
taking into account the proposed "important dates" below.

Workshop proposals should be sent to jowo2019 at gmail.com by January 15, 2019.


EVALUATION

Submissions for workshop proposals will be evaluated by the general
JOWO chairs and the JOWO steering committee, using the following
criteria:
- Scientific relevance and utility to attendees;
- Quality of the proposal;
- Likelihood of success of the workshop;
- Overlap with other workshops.


IMPORTANT DATES

- January 15, 2019 – Workshop proposal submission deadline
- January 31, 2019 – Workshop acceptance notification
- February 20, 2019 – 1st call for papers to be distributed by
workshop organizers
- May 15, 2019 – Suggested latest paper submission deadline
- September 23-25, 2019 – JOWO 2019 in Graz


FURTHER INQUIRIES

In case of further questions please contact jowo2019 at gmail.com


CONFERENCE ORGANISATION (to be completed)

JOWO 2019 Chair:
Adrien Barton, CNRS-IRIT, Toulouse, France & University of Sherbrooke, Canada

JOWO 2019 Local Organization:
Catalina Martínez Costa, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Jose Antonio Miñarro Giménez, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Stefan Schulz, Medical University of Graz, Austria

JOWO Steering Committee:
Stefano Borgo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Trento, Italy
Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Frank Loebe, University of Leipzig, Germany
Fabian Neuhaus, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany