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ONTOBRAS
6th Brazilian Conference on Ontologies
September 23 - 25, 2013 - Belo Horizonte / MG - Brasil
Co-located event: 2nd Workshop on Semantic Web and Amazonian
Biodiversity Ontology
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 Brazilian Conference on Ontologies 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 Sixth Edition of the Conference is being held
simultaneously with the Second 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 6th Brazilian
Conference on Ontologies, which will be held this year in Belo
Horizonte, MG, Brazil, on September 23-24. ONTOBRAS is the
Brazilian meeting for discussing Ontologies and this year will be
sponsored by Federal University of Minas Gerais. 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 article formatting rules provided by the
Brazilian Computing Society (SBC). The models for Microsoft Office
Word can be downloaded at this link:
http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras-most2011/sites/default/files/sbc_template.doc;
models for OpenOffice and Latex can be found at this link:
http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras-most2011/sites/default/files/Template_SBC.zip.
Submissions should be done via Easychair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontobras2013
The conference proceedings will be published in the online journal
CEUR-WS (
http://www.ceur-ws.org).
IMPORTANT DATES
- Main track submission deadline: July 15, 2013
- Acceptance notification: August 15, 2013
- Final version: August 27, 2013
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 / TUTORIALS
To be announced.
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
- Marcello Peixoto Bax (UFMG, Brazil)
- Fernando Silva Parreiras (FUMEC, Brazil)
Chair - AMAZONIA SEMANTICA
- José Laurindo Campos dos Santos (INPA, Brazil)
Program Chairs - ONTOBRAS
- Maurício Almeida (ECI - UFMG)
- Renata Wassermann (IME - USP)
Steering Committee
- Andreia Malucelli (PUCPR, Brazil)
- Bernadette Loscio (UFPE, Brazil)
- 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 Maria de Carvalho Moura (LNCC/RJ, Brazil)
Anarosa Alves Franco Brandão (USP, Brazil)
Andre Freitas (DERI, Ireland)
Andreia Malucelli (PUCPR, Brazil)
Cassia Trojahn (INRIA & LIG, France)
Claudio Gutierrez (UCHILE, Chile)
Emerson Paraiso (PUCPR, Brazil)
Evandro de Barros Costa (UFAL, Brazil)
Fabio Andre Porto (LNCC, Brazil)
Fernanda Lima (UnB, Brazil)
Fernando Naufel do Amaral (UFF, Brazil)
Fernando Silva Parreiras (FUMEC, Brazil)
Flavio S. Correa Da Silva (USP, Brazil)
Fred Freitas (UFPE, Brazil)
Frederico Durao (CESAR, Brazil)
Gabriela Henning (UNL, Argentine)
Gerd Wagner (BTU Cottbus, Germany)
Ig Ibert Bittencourt (UFAL, Brazil)
Jaime Simão Sichman (USP, Brazil)
José Parente de Oliveira (ITA, Brazil)
Lucelene Lopes (PUCRS, Brazil)
Mara Abel (UFRGS, Brazil)
Marcela Vegetti (INGAR/UTN, Argentine)
Marcelo Bax (UFMG, Brazil)
Marcio Moretto Ribeiro (USP, Brazil)
Maria Luiza Campos (UFRJ, Brazil)
Mauricio Almeida (ECI-UFMG, Brazil)
Monalessa Barcellos (UFES, Brazil)
Oscar Corcho (UPM, Spain)
Osvaldo Pessoa (USP, Brazil)
Regina Braga (UFJF, Brazil)
Renata Galante (UFRGS, Brazil)
Renata Wassermann (IME-USP, Brazil)
Ricardo Falbo (UFES, Brazil)
Roberta Ferrario (LOA, Italy)
Sandro Fiorini (UFRGS, Brazil)
Sônia Elisa Caregnato (UFRGS, Brazil)
Sean Siqueira (UNIRIO, Brazil)
Seiji Isotani (USP, Brazil)
Stefan Schulz (MUG, Austria)