FW: 2nd call for participation: IAOA Summer Institute on Places and Things

Van: Scheider, S. (Simon) <s.scheider@uu.nl>
Verzonden: donderdag 27 juni 2019 17:32
Onderwerp: 2nd call for participation: IAOA Summer Institute on Places and Things

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Note the registration deadline is the 30th of June 2019!!

==== 2nd call for participation ====
IAOA Summer Institute on Places and Things

July 22-25, 2019 Utrecht, Netherlands

http://geographicknowledge.de/iaoa-summer-institute/


Goal

The need to support spatial reasoning arises in domains as diverse as geographic information systems and manufacturing, yet there has been little interaction between the industrial and academic communities in these domains. The IAOA Summer Institute will bring together researchers from these domains and explore topics in spatial representation and reasoning such as notions of dimensionality, boundaries, shape, and location. It will in particular explore the variety of spatial questions that are asked in these domains, and how such questions help design and test spatial ontologies.

  *   What are the commonalities and differences among the research problems that motivate the various communities that use spatial reasoning?
  *   What are the types of spatial questions asked?
  *   Why is there not more ontology reuse and sharing among these communities?
  *   What applications drive the design of ontologies for spatial reasoning?

For example, location services are increasingly important for many companies. Knowledge-based design of electromechanical devices with moving parts remains a challenge in manufacturing.

Facilitators and Organization

  *   Werner Kuhn<http://geog.ucsb.edu/~kuhn/> (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  *   Michael Gruninger<http://stl.mie.utoronto.ca/gruninger.html> (University of Toronto)
  *   Simon Scheider<https://www.uu.nl/staff/SScheider> (University of Utrecht)

Participants from all sectors of geographical information systems, manufacturing, and ontology engineering are invited to interact from July 22-25, 2019 at Utrecht University<https://www.uu.nl/>. As always, the Summer Institute will challenge the state of the art through lively discussions and hands-on problem solving rather than lengthy presentations. The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA)<https://iaoa.org/> is a non-profit organization the purpose of which is to promote interdisciplinary research and international collaboration at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in the applications of ontological analysis to conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering, knowledge management, information-systems development, library and information science, scientific research, and semantic technologies in general.

Registration Information

You can register by sending an email to Michael Gruninger (gruninger@mie.utoronto.ca<mailto:gruninger@mie.utoronto.ca>). The registration fee is €340.

The deadline for registration is the 30th of June 2019!

Local information and programme to be found at:

http://geographicknowledge.de/iaoa-summer-institute/