<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style>
</head>
<body dir="ltr">
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span style=""></span></div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span style="">
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">(Apologies for potential cross-posting)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400"><br>
</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26)">The Joint Ontology Workshops - JOWO 2020</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26)">Episode 6: The Bolzano Summer of Knowledge / </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26)"><b>Workshop Days of EKAW - ICBO - FOIS </b></span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<a href="http://bosk2020.inf.unibz.it/"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(17,85,204); font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none">http://bosk2020.inf.unibz.it</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<a href="https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2020/index.html"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(17,85,204); font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none">https://www.iaoa.org/jowo/2020</span></a></p>
<br>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">* Submission deadline: February 15, 2020 *</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">* Notification: March 1, 2020 *</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">The Joint Workshop Committees of BOSK 2020 invite proposals for workshops and tutorials for EKAW, ICBO and FOIS as part of the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge, held during the
week of September 14-20, 2020.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">Workshops and tutorials at JOWO 2020 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 broadly related to ontologies, formal ontology, and knowledge management and their application in information science or other
areas. Together, the JOWO workshops can 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.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">Previous JOWO editions were held as independent events in 2019 in Graz (Austria), in 2017 in Bolzano (Italy), and in conjunction with FOIS 2018 in Cape Town (South Africa),
with FOIS 2016 in Annecy (France), and at IJCAI 2015 in Buenos Aires (Argentina).</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">As in earlier years, all contributions to JOWO workshops will be published open access in a joint CEUR proceedings volume, as part of the new IAOA series (</span><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(127,0,2); font-weight:400">ttp:h//ceur-ws.org/iaoa.html</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">).</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">We welcome proposals from researchers and practitioners interested in the theory, practice, development and/or application of ontologies and related areas are invited to
submit workshop proposals for review. </span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">We encourage several forms and length of workshops (the list is non-exhaustive):</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- workshops that focus on an established research area, including continuations of workshops that were held in the past;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- workshops that focus on emerging topics and applications, or on open research questions and challenges;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- workshops that aim to create cross-disciplinary research fostering exchange of ideas between groups otherwise mostly disconnected.</span></p>
<br>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; font-weight:400">SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be no more than 2 pages in length, and must contain the following information:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- title of the workshop/tutorial;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- select one primary conference affiliation: EKAW, FOIS, or ICBO (for reviewing and scheduling purposes; a brief description of each conference can be found below);</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- names of the workshop/tutorial organizers;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- brief description of experience in workshop/tutorial organization;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- description of the workshop/tutorial topic;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- brief description of the expected audience (please give an estimate of the expected number of participants and their background and interests, if applicable please relate
this to participation in similar prior events);</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- intended duration of the workshop (between half a day and a full day);</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- timeline for the workshop (submission dates, notification dates), taking into account the proposed "important dates" below.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">Workshop proposals should be sent to
</span><a><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(17,85,204); font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none">jowo.steering@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">
by February 15, 2020. </span></p>
<br>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">EVALUATION</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">Submissions of workshop proposals will be evaluated by the workshop chairs of JOWO 2020 using the following criteria:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- Scientific relevance and utility to attendees;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- Quality of the proposal;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- Likelihood of success of the workshop;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- Overlap and complementarity with other workshops.</span></p>
<br>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">IMPORTANT DATES</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- February 15, 2020 – Workshop proposal submission deadline</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- March 1, 2020 – Workshop acceptance notification</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- March 16, 2020 – 1st call for papers to be distributed by workshop organizers</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">- September 14-20, 2020 – Workshops in Bolzano in conjunction with EKAW, FOIS and ICBO</span></p>
<br>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">FURTHER INQUIRIES</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">In case of further questions please contact
</span><a><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(17,85,204); font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none">jowo.steering@gmail.com</span></a></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">DESCRIPTION AND SCOPE OF EKAW, ICBO, AND FOIS</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400"><br>
<br>
</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">The
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:700">International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW)</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">
is concerned with all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modelling and managing knowledge, as well its role in the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent
information integration, etc. The focus of EKAW 2020 will be “Ethical and Trustworthy Knowledge Engineering”. EKAW workshops should provide an informal setting where participants have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that
fosters the active exchange of ideas. EKAW tutorials should enable attendees to appreciate, evaluate, or utilize relevant trends, methods, tools, models, etc.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:12pt">
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">The
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:700">International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO)</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">
is a premier annual conference series that brings together researchers, students and professionals involved in the development and application of ontologies in all areas of biology, medicine, diseases, human health, genome biology, environment, biomes, nutrition,
food, plants, agriculture and others. ICBO workshops provide the opportunity to discuss and progress a variety of issues at the forefront of biomedical ontologies and to build communities around specific topic areas. ICBO tutorials should provide a rich forum
for education, training and dissemination to advance the next generation of biomedical ontologists and share knowledge about infrastructure, standards and platforms for advanced tooling. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;font-weight:bold; line-height:1.38; text-align:justify; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">The
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:700">International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information System (FOIS)</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(24,25,26); font-weight:400">
is a biennial conference, which is dedicated to interdisciplinary research at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in the applications of ontological analysis to specific domains.
FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA). Given its scope and since FOIS is a single track conference, presentations at FOIS typically cover a broad range of subjects. FOIS workshops complement
the main conference by providing a venue for presentations and discussions on a particular subject area. FOIS tutorials should provide an introduction to methods, theories, standards, infrastructure or tools that are of interest to FOIS participants. </span></p>
</span><br style="">
<br style="">
<br>
</div>
</body>
</html>