[CFP] ONTOBRAS 2024 - The Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil

[Luan Fonseca Garcia]

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Call for Papers – ONTOBRAS 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS 

ONTOBRAS 2024 - 17th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil 

October 7–10, 2024, Porto Alegre - RS, Brazil

https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras/en/

The Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil (ONTOBRAS) aims to bring together the community of researchers and students investigating the subject of Ontology in the fields of Computer Science and Information Science, as well as professionals from the information industry, providing opportunities and a scientific environment for the exchange of knowledge on theories, methods, languages and ontology engineering tools and experiences in ontology applications in the solution of various problems.

Researchers and professionals are invited to submit theoretical, technical and practical research contributions that directly or indirectly deal with the topics of interest presented in the call for papers. Papers ranging from philosophical and theoretical foundations to new technologies and innovative applications are welcome.

Important dates 

• Submission Deadline:  June 3rd, 2024

• Author notification: July 10th, 2024

• Camera ready: September 10th, 2024

• Author registration: September 10th, 2024

• ONTOBRAS: October 7–10, 2024

Topics of interest

Topics of interest for the event include, but are not limited to:

• Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling:

  • Ontological foundations for conceptual modeling and metamodeling

  • Foundational and upper ontologies

  • Semantic consistency

  • Ontology-based conceptual modeling tools and environments

• Ontologies and knowledge organization:

  • Facet Theory and Theory of Concepts

  • Terminology, Folksonomies, Thesauri, Taxonomies, Metadata

  • Documentary languages

  • Knowledge discovery and reasoning

  • Knowledge representation and management

  • Ontology governance

• Ontology Engineering:

  • Methodologies, techniques,practices, languages and tools

  • Composition and modularity

  • Interoperability between ontologies, integration, mapping and alignment

  • Ontological language interoperability

  • Ontology patterns and anti-patterns

  • Ontology evaluation and validation

  • Integration problems, practices and methods

  • Ontology Enrichment and semantic enrichment

  • (Semi-)automated ontology development

• Semantic Web:

  • Modeling

  • Information retrieval

  • Ontology-based search

  • Linked open data (LOD) applications

  • Ontology and Natural Language Processing (NLP)

  • Linguistic ontologies applied to text processing

  • Computational linguistics

  • Access, integration and exchange of data based on databases and ontologies on the Web

  • Knowledge graphs (construction, maintenance, reasoning) and virtual knowledge graphs

  • Social and human aspects of the Semantic Web

• Ontology Applications:

  • Ontology for e-science, life sciences, e-business, multimedia and cultural heritage

  • Domain ontologies (Education, Health, Smart Cities, Government and others)

  • Ontology-driven information system design

  • Ontology-driven business modeling

  • Ontology tools: construction, reasoning, evaluation

  • Data management and FAIR principles

• Ontologies and data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence

• Ontology Visualization

Submission Guidelines

The complete call for papers with submission guidelines can be found at https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras/en/call-for-papers-ontobras-2024/ 

General Chairs

Mara Abel (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Joel Luis Carbonera (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Program Committee Chairs

Claudenir M. Fonseca (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Vítor E. Silva Souza (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil)