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[ANN] tawny-owl 0.11

Phillip Lord — 2013-05-22T11:39:11


I'm pleased to announce the release of tawny-owl 0.11. 

What is it?
==========

This package allows users to construct OWL ontologies in a fully programmatic
environment, namely Clojure. This means the user can take advantage of
programmatic language to automate and abstract the ontology over the
development process; also, rather than requiring the creation of ontology
specific development environments, a normal programming IDE can be used;
finally, a human readable text format means that we can integrate with the
standard tooling for versioning and distributed development.

Changes
=======

# 0.11

## New features

- facts on individual are now supported
- documentation has been greatly extended
- OWL API 3.4.4


A new paper on the motivation and use cases for tawny-owl is also
available at http://www.russet.org.uk/blog/2366


Feedback welcome!

Final CfP: 4th Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Conference (KESW2013)

Pavel Klinov — 2013-05-21T13:47:24

Final Call for Papers: 4th Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web
Conference (St. Petersburg, Russia, October 7-9, 2013)

http://kesw.ifmo.ru/kesw2013/

UPDATE:
The paper deadline *might* be extended (as we've got requests to do so)
but all abstracts *must* be in by May 25th, 23:59 Hawaii Time.
Follow https://twitter.com/keswconference for updates.

KESW is a top Russian venue for discussing research issues related to
knowledge representation, Semantic Web, and Linked Data. Its aim is to
bring together researchers, practitioners, and educators, in
particular from ex-USSR, Eastern and Northern Europe, to present and
share ideas regarding Semantic Web, and popularize the area in these
regions.

Following the success in the previous years, we solicit original and
substantial contributions for this year's technical program. The
program will feature three tracks for research papers, industrial
papers, and posters/demos. Additionally, we welcome position papers to
discuss ideas on their early stages of development

[CfP] 2nd Int Workshop on Ordering and Reasoning (OrdRing2013) < at >ISWC2013

Markus Krötzsch — 2013-05-20T21:03:09

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call.
Please redistribute within your own group and among colleagues,
thank you!]

[CALL FOR PAPERS]

2nd International Workshop on Ordering and Reasoning (OrdRing2013)
October 21st/22nd, 2013 - Sydney, Australia

Collocated with the 12th International Semantic Web Conference
(ISWC 2013)

http://www.streamreasoning.org/events/ordring2013

IMPORTANT DATES
---------------

Abstract submission deadline: 3 July 2013
Paper submission deadline: 10 July 2013
Notification of acceptance: 9 August 2013

GOALS AND TOPICS
----------------

More and more applications require real-time processing of massive,
dynamically generated, ordered data; where order is often an essential
factor reflecting recency, proximity or relevance. Stream and
rank-aware data management techniques are progressively providing
reactive and reliable query answering over such massive datasets,
allowing integration of highly dynamic sources. Key to their success
is the use of streaming algorithms th

Jailbreaking the PDF hackathon

Alexander Garcia Castro — 2013-05-08T16:29:17

Good News All!  The upcoming "Jailbreaking the PDF" hackathon
(http://scholrev.org/hackathon) now has a venue.  We will convene
Monday morning, May 27 at the Agence Bibliographique de l'enseignement
Superieur (ABES):
http://www.abes.fr/Connaitre-l-ABES/Presentation-de-l-ABES.

There is no registration fee; the event is free.  Bring yourself &
your favorite laptop, and we'll supply the food, drinks wifi,
repository, and everything else necessary to hack away.

Future announcements will be posted at http://scholrev.org/hackathon.

For further information, please contact either myself or Alex Garcia-Castro.

--
Alexander Garcia
http://www.alexandergarcia.name/
http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/75943.html
http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgarciac

Deadline extension till 15.5 Int. WS on Cyber-Physical Systems and Agents (CyPhySyA) as part ofMATES, Koblenz (Germany), 15th-19th Sept. 2013

Rainer Unland — 2013-05-08T16:19:05

First International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems and Agents

(CyPhySyA)

as part of the joint conference on

Multiagent System Technologies (MATES) and

Joint Agent Workshops in Synergy (JAWS)

Koblenz (Germany), 15th-19th Sept. 2013

*Links*

CyPhySyA:http://www.icb.uni-due.de/cyphysya/

MATES/JAWS:http://www.mates2013.de/jaws/

Informatik (GI conf.) 2013:http://informatik2013.de/giconference.html

*Important dates*

Submission date15 May 2013  ****new deadline****

Notification date7 June 2013

Paper ready deadline28 June 2013

Conference dates15-19 Sept. 2013

Workshop motivation and topics

The recent technological advances in wireless communications and the 
increasing availability of sensors, actuators, and mobile devices have 
created an exciting new ubiquitous computing environment that 
facilitates computing and communication services all the time and 
everywhere. This lays the foundation for so-called cyber-physical 
systems (CPS). These are integrations of computational, network, and 
physi

Call for papers: Vagueness, Imprecision and Uncertainty in Description Logics

2013-05-08T03:39:41

CALL FOR PAPERS

------------------------------------------------------------
Vagueness, Imprecision and Uncertainty in Description Logics
Special Session at the Joint Rough Set Symposium (JRS 2013)
(October 11-14, Halifax, Canada)

http://cs.smu.ca/jrs2013/
------------------------------------------------------------

Description Logics (DLs) are a well-established group of knowledge
representation formalisms targeted towards the representation of
terminological knowledge and reasoning procedures for it. For
applications in areas such as the Semantic Web, Bio-medicine, Context-aware
systems and others, representation of merely crisp information is not
enough. Instead it is important to deal with vague or uncertain terms,
as well as with imprecise definitions in order to reflect better the
real-world semantics and build more adequate knowledge-based systems. In
recent years, several extensions of DLs have been developed to address
these needs. However, many problems remain open in these extensions --
rangin

[CfP] (Deadline extended) 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (with DL 2013)

Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz — 2013-05-03T09:44:58

CFP ICARIS 2013 - NEWS: extended deadline 18 May; Keynotes; special issue in NACO; student bursaries

Mario Pavone — 2013-04-29T18:06:41

CALL FOR PAPERS, ORAL PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS
**Apologies for cross-posting**

12th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems - ICARIS 2013
August 27-29, 2013 - University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

icaris2013-4koNNDqk5lEmHH771XGohA< at >public.gmane.org
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris2013/
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2013


*********************************************
                   NEWS
*********************************************
* EXTENDED DEADLINE: 18th May 2013

* Proceedings in LNCS, Springer (only for regular papers of 2nd track)

* Special issue in NATURAL COMPUTING

* STUDENT BURSARIES for the most competitive students from any country

* KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Pietro Lio', University of Cambridge, UK
- Natalio Krasnogor, University of Nottingham, UK
- Benedict Seddon, National Institute for Medical Research, UK
- Alan Winfield, University of the West of England, UK
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RR 2013 Doctoral Consortium -- application deadline extended

Aidan Hogan — 2013-04-29T16:34:32

[Apologies for multiple postings]

Dear All,

The deadline for applications to the RR2013 Doctoral Consortium has been 
extended to April 28th.

Also the grant application has been extended (see the complete call below).

Started last year in Vienna, the RR Doctoral Consortium and related 
events (mentoring lunch, poster session) have been a very positive 
experience for students at any stage of their doctoral research.

If you are a PhD student, consider submitting a research summary that, 
if accepted, will be part of the proceedings of RR2013, Mannheim, Germany.

We would appreciate a lot if you can advertise it to among the students 
of your institution or your contacts that may be interested in applying 
to the RR doctoral consortium.

best regards,

Alessandra, Domenico, & Wolfgang

ECAL'13 Paper & Abstract Submission Deadline Extended - Friday May 10

Mario Pavone — 2013-04-29T14:17:48

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement]
[Please kindly help forward it to potentially interested attendees]

ECAL'13 Paper & Abstract Submission Deadline Extended - *Friday May 10*

ECAL 2013, European Conference on Artificial Life,
an International Conference on the Designing, Programming, Evolving,
Simulation and Synthesis of Natural and Artificial Living Systems

2-6 September 2013, Taormina, Italy - http://www.dmi.unict.it/ecal2013/

*Paper/Abstract Submission: May 10, 2013*
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecal2013
Proceedings by MIT Press.
Best Papers in Artificial Life Journal (confirmed).

* 17 Tracks

ECAL Manuscripts - General Track
Track on Adaptive Hardware & Systems and Bioelectronics
Track on Adaptive Living Material Technologies and Biomimetic Microsystems
Track on Artificial Immune, Neural and Endocrine Systems
Track on Artificial Organs and Tissues & Organ-on-a-Chip
Track on Astrobiology
Track on Bioinspired Learning and Optimization
Track on Bioinspired R

[CfP] (Deadline approaching) 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (with DL 2013)

Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz — 2013-04-28T17:48:12

[Apologies for cross-posting]


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                            CALL FOR PAPERS & SYSTEMS
                     2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE 2013)
                        Collocated with DL 2013 Workshop
                July 22nd in Ulm, Germany
                       http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/
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OBJECTIVES
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The goal of this workshop is to bring together both the DEVELOPERS and
END-USERS of reasoners for (subsets of) OWL, including systems focusing on
both intensional (ontology) and extensional (data) query answering. The
workshop will give developers a perfect opportunity to promote their
systems and get
feedback from end-users and real uses-cases.


CALL FOR PAPERS
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RR 2013 Doctoral Consortium - Extended Deadlines

Domenico Lembo — 2013-04-24T07:53:26

=============================================
Doctoral Consortium, RR 2013
27-29 July, Mannheim, Germany
=============================================

Extended deadlines:

Application: April 28th, 2013
Notification: May 8th, 2013
Grant Application: May 10th, 2013

=============================================

The Doctoral Consortium of the 7th International Conference on Web
Reasoning and RuleSystems (RR2013) will provide doctoral students in Web
Reasoning and related areas with the unique opportunity to present and
discuss their research directions, being involved into state-of-the-art
research discussion and being supported in establishing fruitful
collaborations with prominent researchers and pioneers the field of Web
Reasoning and Rules and related areas.

The co-location of RR2013 with the Reasoning Web Summer School and with
other relevant related events will provide multiple opportunities for
participating students to enhance their education.

The Consortium will allow participants to interact with

AST 2013: 3rd Call for Papers (7th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies)

Juergen Bock — 2013-04-23T14:55:37

(apologies for cross-posting)


=====================================================================

 7th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Technologies

                              (AST 2013)

                       http://ast2013.fzi.de/

     at INFORMATIK 2013 (16-20 September 2013, Koblenz, Germany)

=====================================================================

      <<<  Discuss about application areas on our forum at  >>>
      <<<         http://ast2013.fzi.de/?page_id=33         >>>
      <<< as input to the OpenSpace session at the workshop >>>



Aim, Scope, Goals:
------------------
Semantic Web denotes a major international research effort with the goal
to make Web content available for intelligent knowledge processing. The
Semantic Web draws on standard and novel techniques from various
disciplines related to Computer Science, including Artificial
Intelligence, Databases, Internet Technology, Software Agents,
Ontologies, Knowledge Management and eCommerce. The deve

Call for submissions: Doctoral Consortium at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013)

Natasha Noy — 2013-04-17T23:49:40

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International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013)

Sydney, Australia
October 21-25, 2013

Call for Doctoral Consortium Submissions

http://iswc2013.semanticweb.org/content/call-doctoral-consortium-submissions

========================================================

The ISWC 2013 Doctoral Consortium will take place as part of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference in Sydney, Australia. This forum will provide PhD students an opportunity to share and develop their research ideas in a critical but supportive environment, to get feedback from mentors who are senior members of the Semantic Web research community, to explore issues related to academic and research careers, and ri build relationships with other Semantic Web PhD students from around the world. The Consortium aims to broaden the perspectives and to improve the research and communication skills of these students.

The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific re

ICARIS 2013 CFP: The 12th Int. Conf. on Artificial Immune Systems - August 27-29, 2013, Nottingham, UK

Mario Pavone — 2013-04-16T16:47:25

CALL FOR PAPERS, ORAL PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS
**Apologies for cross-posting**


The 12th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems
August 27-29, 2013 - University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

icaris2013-4koNNDqk5lEmHH771XGohA< at >public.gmane.org


http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris2013/
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icaris2013
http://www.artificial-immune-systems.org/icaris2013/cfp.html


**** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 24nd April 2013


**** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Pietro Lio', University of Cambridge, UK
- Natalio Krasnogor, University of Nottingham, UK
- Benedict Seddon, National Institute for Medical Research, UK
- Alan Winfield, University of the West of England, UK

**** Special issue in Natural Computing



General Information:

ICARIS 2013 aims to build on the success of previous years to provide  
a forum for AIS researchers in both academia and industry to present  
and discuss their latest advances. In addition to peer-reviewed  
papers, ICARIS 2013 will present a rang

ECAL'13 Paper & Abstract Submission Deadline Extended - Friday May 10

Mario Pavone — 2013-04-16T16:44:36

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement]
[Please kindly help forward it to potentially interested attendees]

ECAL'13 Paper & Abstract Submission Deadline Extended - *Friday May 10*

ECAL 2013, European Conference on Artificial Life,
an International Conference on the Designing, Programming, Evolving,
Simulation and Synthesis of Natural and Artificial Living Systems

2-6 September 2013, Taormina, Italy - http://www.dmi.unict.it/ecal2013/

*Paper/Abstract Submission: May 10, 2013*
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecal2013
Proceedings by MIT Press.
Best Papers in Artificial Life Journal (TBC).

* 11 Tracks

ECAL Manuscripts - Main Track
Track on Adaptive Living Material Technologies
Track on Artificial Organs and Tissues & Organ-on-a-Chip
Track on Artificial Immune, Neural and Endocrine Systems
Track on Astrobiology
Track on Bioinspired Robotics
Track on Biologically Inspired Engineering
Track on Biomimetic Microsystems
Track on Evolvable Hardware, Evolutionary Electronics &

Deadline extension: International Workshop on Definitions in Ontologies (DO 2013)

Selja Seppälä — 2013-04-16T15:09:53

Apologies for cross-posting
Please forward this message to any potential colleagues in the areas of interest

DEADLINE EXTENSION: Friday, April 26, 2013

International Workshop on Definitions in Ontologies (DO 2013)
July 7, 2013

At ICBO 2013 (International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies)
Montreal, Canada

Website: http://definitionsinontologies.weebly.com/ 


Ontologies built using OBO Foundry principles are advised to include both formal (logical) definitions, as well as natural language definitions. Depending on the effort, one or the other can be underrepresented. Possible explanations to this bottleneck are the high cost of producing well-written definitions; an insufficient understanding of the nature of natural language definitions or of logic; the lack of an operational theory of definitions; the lack of studies that evaluate usability and effectiveness of definitions in ontologies; a paucity of tools to help with definition authoring and checking. Producing natural language definitions is time-

Reminder: CFP-Special issue on New trends on E-Procurement applying Semantic Technologies, Journal of Computers in Industry

Jose María Alvarez Rodríguez — 2013-04-15T10:25:49

[Apologies for cross-posting]

Call for Papers

"Special issue on New trends on E-Procurement applying Semantic
Technologies"

Computers in Industry. An International, Application Oriented Research
Journal (Impact Factor: 1.620)

More detailed CFP:
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-in-industry/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-new-trends-on-e-procurement/

Submission:

http://ees.elsevier.com/comindsi/

-Overview

The aim of this special issue is to collect innovative and
high-quality research and industrial contributions regarding
E-Procurement processes that can fulfill the needs of this new realm.
This special issue aims at exploring the recent advances in the
application of Semantic Technologies in the E-Procurement sector
soliciting original scientific contributions in the form of
theoretical,
experimental and real research and case studies.


-Important dates and Timeline

 * 1st of May 2013,  full papers due (depending on the EES)
 * 15th of May 2013,  Chief editors desk review results
 * 1st

Deadline Extended: PriSeT workshop on Privacy in Semantic Technologies at K-CAP 2013

Mathieu d'Aquin — 2013-04-11T07:06:12

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CALL FOR PAPERS

1^st International Workshop on

Privacy in Semantic Technologies (PriSeT 2013)

23^rd June, 2013

Banff, Canada

(collocated with K-CAP 2013)

_http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/priset-2013/ 
<http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/priset-2013/k-cap-2013/>_

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IMPORTANT DATES

* Paper Submission: 15th April 2011 (deadline extended to 22nd April)

* Author Notification: 30th April, 2013

* Camera ready copy due: 15th May 2013

SCOPE

In recent years, Web users have seen an exponential growth in the amount 
of data being generated and exchanged in form of blogs, tweets, social 
networking and mobile applications. In this respect, Semantic 
technologies have emerged as a potential candidate for modelling and 
building of software systems that are privacy-aware.

On the other hand, recent linked-data initiatives from government, 
academia and industry are rapidly movi

SSSW 2013 Deadline Extended - The 10th Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web

Mathieu D'Aquin — 2013-04-02T08:11:58

THE 10TH SUMMER SCHOOL ON ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING AND THE SEMANTIC WEB (SSSW 2013)
Celebrating 10 years as the premier educational event on semantic web technologies.
7-13 July, 2013, Cercedilla, near Madrid, Spain.
http://sssw.org/2013

The applications deadline has been extended to 12 April 2013
See http://sssw.org/2013/how-to-apply/ for details.

The groundbreaking SSSW series of summer schools started in 2003. It is now a
well-established event within the research community and a role model for several
other initiatives. In 2013, we will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of SSSW,
with a set of tutors comprising leading researchers in the community, prestigious
invited speakers, networking and mentoring sessions with research and industry
leaders (including former students of the school), and of course, an exciting
social programme in one of the most beautiful locations in Spain.

To ensure a high ratio between tutors and students the school will be limited to
50 participants. Applications for the summer s

CFP - Privacy in Semantic Technologies (PriSeT 2013) workshop at K-CAP 2013

Mathieu D'Aquin — 2013-03-28T13:20:36

CALL FOR PAPERS 

1st International Workshop on Privacy in Semantic Technologies (PriSeT 2013)

23rd June, 2013, Banff, Canada (collocated with K-CAP 2013)

http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/priset-2013/

 

IMPORTANT DATES 

* Paper Submission: 15th April 2011

* Author Notification: 30th April, 2013

* Camera ready copy due: 15th May 2013

 

SCOPE

In recent years, Web users have seen an exponential growth in the amount of data being generated and exchanged in form of blogs, tweets, social networking and mobile applications. In this respect, Semantic technologies have emerged as a potential candidate for modelling and building of software systems that are privacy-aware.

On the other hand, recent linked-data initiatives from government, academia and industry are rapidly moving towards making the users’ data available for distributed sharing and linking. However, the main concern is with insufficient privacy safeguards and controls, there is a high risk these linking of data and its exploitation will become a