The 8th Joint Ontology Workshops, 15-19th of August, Jönköping, Sweden

[Maria Hedblom]

(Apologies for possible cross-posting)

-- Call for participation --
The Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO'22)
---- Episode VIII: The Svear Summer of Ontology ----

15-19th of August 2022

Jönköping, Sweden 

Link to IAOA's official JOWO website

Link to JU's event website

--- The workshops and tutorials are presented at the end ---

Every year researchers from areas like philosophy, computer science, linguistics, conceptual modelling and cognitive science gather to participate in a series of workshops and tutorials related to ontology. The event is The Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO), an interdisciplinary umbrella conference centred on research in and application of ontologies. Biyearly, JOWO is co-located with FOIS, but being a large enough event on its own, every other year, JOWO is a freestanding event. The conference series' continuity is maintained by The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA), a non-profit organization aiming to promote interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology.

Due to its unique format, JOWO offers an inspiring platform in which participants can engage with new knowledge in tutorials, present their own innovative findings in workshops, explore new research collaborations from nearby disciplines and network with researchers and practitioners at the event's social program. With seven previous episodes, the conference series has become a regular event on many people's yearly "must-join" lists!

This year's venue is the mid-sized Swedish city of Jönköping. A city for nature lovers, it is beautifully located at one of Sweden's biggest lakes, Vättern, and is surrounded by lush forests, hilly hiking trails and even has a perfectly smooth yellow sand beach (for real!). JOWO itself will take place at Jönköping University's modern facilities located close to the city centre. 

Following JOWO tradition, this year's episode "The Svear Summer of Ontology" will be filled with interesting workshops, educational tutorials, impressive keynote speakers and a not-to-miss social program! At the end of this promotion email, you will find short introductions to this year's three tutorials and eight participating workshops. 

JOWO's scientific program is based on individual workshop submissions. Check out the links to the JOWO workshop below and consider submitting your research to join the summer's hottest ontology event! Information on how to submit your papers to one of the workshops can be found on the individual workshop's website. 

Stay tuned! More information on this year's unique program and how you can register is underway!
We look forward to seeing you at JOWO in Jönköping in August!
Local organisers,
Maria Hedblom, Karl Hammar and Tan He

--- JOWO'22 tutorials ---

Generating text from Ontologies in Multiple Languages
Maria Keet and Zola Mahlaza

Shortened abstract: Tutorial on the basics of knowledge-to-text methodology with ontologies. It includes creating templates for different types of axioms and for different purposes, applying them to an ontology of choice (BYO) and one from the pre-selected ones, and how to examine evaluations of ontology verbalisation.

Implementing better Ontologies with gUFO
Tiago Prince Sales, Joao Paolo A. Almeida, Giancarlo Guizzardi

Shortened abstract: In this tutorial, we will introduce the core ontological commitments of the Unified Foundational Ontology, discuss how they were ported to gUFO, and demonstrate how to create domain ontologies with gUFO using Protegé. 

Knowledge Graphs Tutorial

Tan He

Shortened abstract: Knowledge graphs have emerged as the latest instance of using graphs for representing and reasoning over data and knowledge. In the tutorial, participants will get hands-on experience on how to model, represent, construct and use knowledge graphs by using the Semantic Web standards and technologies.

--- JOWO'22 workshops ---

CAOS VI: The workshop on Cognition And OntologieS
Guendalina Righetti, Maria M. Hedblom, Oliver Kutz

Shortened abstract: CAOS aims to bridge the gap between cognitive science and formal methods. The interdisciplinary workshop accepts submissions from any discipline aiming to formally model cognitive phenomena. 

Energy and Sustainability Ontology Workshop
Martin Glauer, Janna Hastings, Till Mossakowski, Fabian Neuhaus

Shortened abstract: Energy, and sustainability more broadly, are increasingly relevant topics in the context of the climate crisis and a rapidly changing world. This workshop focuses on the development of ontologies for these domains as well as applications in which such ontologies are used.

First Workshop on Formal Models of Knowledge Diversity
Lucia Gomez Alvarez, Rafael Penaloza, Srdjan Vesic

Shortened abstract: This workshop intends to create a space of confluence and a forum for discussion for researchers interested in knowledge diversity in a wide sense, including diverging perspectives, different beliefs, semantic heterogeneity and others.

FOUST VI : The workshop on Foundational Ontology
Claudenir M. Fonseca, Jona Thai, Oliver Kutz and Stefano Borgo

Shortened abstract: The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present work on specific foundational ontologies as well as foundational ontologies in general and their relations to each other and to the wider ontological enterprise.

IFOW: The Integrated Food Ontology Workshop
Damion Dooley, Rhiannon Cameron, Lauren Chan, Duccio Cavalieri, Robert Warren, Hande McGinty, Matthew Lange, Fernanda Dorea, Jaspreet Ahuja

Shortened abstract: This workshop seeks to define the coverage of the different ecological, agricultural, nutritional, dietary, public health, one health surveillance, food security, and trade domains that food-related ontologies are modelling, and the use of data translation tools for bringing legacy data into the ontology fold.

Ontologies for Social Services (OSS)
Bart Gajderowicz, Daniela Rozu, Janna Hastings

Shortened abstract: The purpose of the OSS workshop is to foster communication and strengthen interdisciplinary work at the intersection of semantic technologies and social services. We welcome reports from Social Work practitioners on their experiences using semantic-enabled technologies, best practices, and insights.

RobOntics: Ontologies for Autonomous Robotics
Mihai Pomarlan, Mohammed Diab, Stefano Borgo, Alberto Olivares-Alarcos, Daniel Beßler, Robert Porzel, Aldo Gangemi

Shortened abstract: Many research projects, motivated by applications in healthcare assistance, logistics, autonomous driving etc, aim to bring robots out of the lab and into realistic human environments. This workshop focuses on how ontologies can advance robotics research within these areas.

WOODD: Workshop on Ontologies for the Disaster Domain
Shirly Stephen, Rui Zhu, Cogan Shimizu

Shortened abstract: There is an increasing interest in semantically integrating diverse and heterogeneous hazard data sets, along with representing hazard information in knowledge graphs. However, there are still significant deficiencies in state-of-the-art ontologies that can represent and connect hazard data across independent sources and variant schemas. This workshop aims to address this research gap.