CFP ONTOBRAS - MOST

[Marcello Bax]

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ONTOBRAS - MOST
5th Research Seminar of Ontologies in Brazil
7th International Workshop on Metamodels, Ontologies, Semantic Technologies
http://ontobras-most.net84.net/?q=en

** OUGHT TO LOGISTICAL REASONS, THE EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED ONLY TWO DAYS:
** September 19 - 21, 2012 - Recife/PE - Brasil

Co-located event: 1st Workshop on Semantic Web and Amazonian
Biodiversity Ontology

** DATE DEFINED: September 18, 2012

** VENUE DEFINED : Both events will take place at Best Western Manibu
Recife Hotel, 4 stars
www.hotelmanibu.com

** TUTORIAL AND KEYNOTE TALKS FULLY DEFINED: Keynotes will be Franz
Baader, Jérôme Euzenat and
Giancarlo Guizzardi. See tutorials' and talks' titles below.
Descriptions are available on
event's site

** REGISTRATION TO BE OPEN IN A FEW DAYS.


Ontology is a cross-disciplinary field concerning with the study of
concepts and theories that support the building of shared
conceptualizations of specific domains. In recent years, there has
been a growing interest in the application of ontologies to solve
modeling and classification problems in diverse areas such as Computer
Science, Information Science, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence,
Linguistic, Knowledge Management and many others.

The Ontology Research Seminar in Brazil foresees an opportunity and
scientific environment in which researchers and practitioners from
Information Sciences and Computer Science can exchange the theories,
methodologies, languages, tools and experience related to the ontology
development and application.

In particular, this Fifth Edition of the Ontology Research Seminar is
being held simultaneously with the Seventh Edition of International
Workshop on Metamodels, Ontologies, Semantic Technologies and the
First Workshop on Semantic Web and Amazonian Biodiversity Ontology,
putting forward the effort of the research community in integrating
the previous events about Ontologies that has happened in Brazil in
recent years, in order to create a unique highly scientifically
qualified international forum for presenting and discussing the subject.

Therefore, we provide a non-comprehensive list of areas and
researchers? communities from which we expect to receive submissions:

- Information Science, for instance working with ontologies, thesauri,
knowledge management among other applications,
- Databases, for instance working with semantic data integration,
linked open data, among other applications,
- Artificial Intelligence, for instance working with knowledge based
systems, agents, ontology reasoning, among other applications
- Software Engineering, for instance working with conceptual modeling,
Business Process Models, among other applications,
- Informatics in Education, for instance working with  Educational
Ontologies , Semantic Web-based Educational Standards, among other
applications,
- Linguistics and philosophy, working with natural language processing
using ontologies, theories of representation, among other applications.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit theoretical,
technical and practical research contributions that directly or
indirectly address the issues above. Particularly welcome are
e-science, life-sciences, e-business and cultural applications.

CALL FOR PAPERS

We would like to invite you to participate in the 5th Research Seminar
of Ontologies in Brazil and International Workshop on Metamodels,
Ontologies, Semantic Technologies, which will be held this year in
Recife, PE, Brazil, on September 17-19. ONTOBRAS-MOST is the Brazilian
meeting for discussing Ontologies and this year will be sponsored by
Federal University of Pernambuco. We are interested in the various
aspects of the field, from its philosophical and theoretical
foundations to the new technologies and innovative applications. In
this edition, the meeting is opened to submissions in two categories:

- Full papers (maximum 12 pages) written in English and describing
work with clear demonstrated results. Accepted full paper will be
invited for oral presentation. The best full papers will be invited to
be extended for publication in an influential international journal.

- Short papers (maximum 6 pages) written in Portuguese, English, or
Spanish and describing ongoing work. Accepted short papers will be
invited for poster presentations.

All submissions must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and
must follow the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) conference
format available at: http://www.sbc.org.br

Electronic submission: https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/ontobras_most2012

The conference proceedings will be published in the online journal
CEUR-WS (http://www.ceur-ws.org).

IMPORTANT DATES
- ** NEW ** Main track submission deadline: 23 July 2012
- Acceptance notification: 23 August 2012
- Final version: 27 August 2012

TOPICS

Suggested areas include, but are not limited to:

- Ontology and Conceptual Modeling:
Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling
Foundational ontologies
Upper-level ontologies
Semantic consistency
Ontology-based conceptual modeling tools and environments

- Ontologies and Knowledge Organization:
Facets Theory
Concept Theory
Terminology
Folksonomies
Documentary languages. Thesaurus
Taxonomies
Metadata

- Ontology Engineering:
Methodology, languages and tools
Composition and modularity
Merging, mapping and alignment
Ontology language interoperability
Integration methods, problems and practice

- Semantic Web:
Modelling
Information retrieval
Ontology Search

- Ontology and Natural Language Processing:
Linguistic ontologies applied to text processing
Patterns of ontologies for specific applications

- Ontology applications:
Domain ontologies in e-science, e-business, natural sciences and others
Knowledge management
Ontologies and semantic technologies in Education

- Ontology Visualization

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS / TUTORIALISTS

- Jérome Euzenat (INRIA, Rhône-Alpes, France)
Keynote talk: "Distributed and dynamic knowledge for real"
Tutorial: "Ontology matching"

- Franz Baader (University of Dresden, Germany)
Keynote talk: "Logic meets the real world: How can logical reasoning
be used to achieve
higher-level situation awareness?"
Tutorial: "Introduction to Description Logics"

- Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University if Espírito Santo, Brazil)
Keynote talk: "The Humble Ontologist - Theoretical Foundations and
Engineering Tools for
Building Ontologies as Reference Conceptual Models"
Tutorial: "Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling with Applications"

PANEL
A panel on Brazilian federal e-government solutions, applications,
success cases, standards, efforts and actions performed by the
Brazilian W3C Office will be presented at the event.

COMMITTEES

General Chairs - ONTOBRAS-MOST
- Fred Freitas (UFPE, Brazil) - fred at cin.ufpe.br
- Bernadette Loscio (UFPE, Brazil) - bfl at cin.ufpe.br

Chair - AMAZONIA SEMANTICA
- José Laurindo Campos dos Santos (INPA, Brazil) - lcampos at inpa.gov.br

Program Chairs - ONTOBRAS-MOST
- Andreia Malucelli (PUCPR, Brazil) - malu at ppgia.pucpr.br
- Marcelo Bax (UFMG, Brazil) - bax at ufmg.br

Steering Committee
- Fernando Gauthier (UFSC, Brazil)
- Fred Freitas (UFPE, Brazil)
- Giancarlo Guizzardi (UFES, Brazil)
- Mara Abel (UFRGS, Brazil)
- Marcello Bax (UFMG, Brazil)
- Maria Claudia Cavalcanti  (IME, Brazil)
- Maria Luiza de Almeida Campos (UFF, Brazil)
- Renata Vieira  (PUCRS, Brazil)
- Sonia Elisa Caregnato (UFRGS, Brazil)

Program Committee
Alan Pedro da Silva (UFAL, Brazil)
Alcione Oliveira (UFV, Brazil)
Alexandre Rademaker (FGV, Brazil)
Alicia Diaz (UNLP, Argentina)
Ana Carolina Salgado (UFPE, Brazil)
Ana Maria de Carvalho Moura (LNCC/RJ, Brazil)
Andre Freitas (DERI, Ireland)
Andreia Malucelli (PUCPR, Brazil)
Cassia Santos (INRIA & LIG, France)
Cesar Tacla (UTFPR, Brazil)
Claudio Gutierrez  (UCHILE, Chile)
Edward Hermann Haeusler (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Emerson Paraiso (PUCPR, Brazil)
Evandro de Barros Costa (UFAL, Brazil)
Fabio Andre Porto (LNCC, Brazil)
Fernanda Baiao (UNIRIO, Brazil)
Fernanda Lima (UnB, Brazil)
Fernando Naufel do Amaral (UFF, Brazil)
Fernando Silva Parreiras (FUMEC, Brazil)
Fred Freitas (UFPE, Brazil)
Frederico Durao (CESAR, Brazil)
Gabriela Henning (UNL, Argentine)
Gerd Wagner (BTU Cottbus, Germany)
Gustavo Giménez-Lugo (UTFPR, Brazil)
Ig Ibert Bittencourt (UFAL, Brazil)
Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA & LIG, France)
José Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira (UFRGS, Brazil)
José Parente de Oliveira (ITA, Brazil)
Juan Garcia-Gomez (UPV, Spain)
Laurindo Campos (INPA, Brazil)
Lucelene Lopes (PUCRS, Brazil)
Luis Márcio Spinosa (PUCPR, Brazil)
Mara Abel (UFRGS, Brazil)
Marcela Vegetti (INGAR/UTN, Argentine)
Marcelo Bax (UFMG, Brazil)
Maria Luiza Campos (UFF, Brazil)
Maria Luiza Campos (UFRJ, Brazil)
Mauricio Almeida (ECI-UFMG, Brazil)
Monalessa Barcellos (UFES, Brazil)
Oscar Corcho (UPM, Spain)
Rafael da Rocha (UFRGS, Brazil)
Regina Braga (UFJF, Brazil)
Regina Motz (UDELAR, Uruguay)
Renata Galante (UFRGS, Brazil)
Renata Vieira (PUCRS, Brazil)
Renata Wassermann (IME-USP, Brazil)
Renato Souza (FGV, Brazil)
Ricardo Falbo (UFES, Brazil)
Roberta Ferrario (LOA, Italy)
Rove Chishman (UNISINOS, Brazil)
Sandro Fiorini (UFRGS, Brazil)
Sônia Elisa Caregnato (UFRGS, Brazil)
Sean Siqueira (UNIRIO, Brazil)
Seiji Isotani (USP, Brazil)
Stefan Schulz (MUG, Austria)

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