- From: Karl Hammar <karl.h.hammar@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 10:26:18 +0200
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ISAO 2018 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) and the University of Cape Town, South Africa are proud to announce the Fourth Interdisciplinary School on Applied Ontology (ISAO) September 10-15, 2018 -- Cape Town, South Africa http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/ Description ----------- World-class experts in different disciplines (Applied Ontology, Biomedical Ontology, Logic and Philosophy, Conceptual Modeling, Semantic Technologies) will meet for a week with students, researchers and practitioners, to offer courses in complementary aspects of Applied Ontology. The school will be a full immersion experience in ontology, where lecturers engage in open discussions with each other, interact with the participants, and supervise micro-projects addressing Applied Ontology problems. ISAO will take place in the beautiful city of Cape Town, South Africa, and is open to students, researchers and practitioners. Previous schools were held in * 2016 - Bozen/Bolzano, Italy http://isao2016.inf.unibz.it/ * 2014 - Vitoria, Brazil http://iaoa.org/isao2014/ * 2012 - Trento, Italy http://iaoa.org/isao2012/ Program ------- The following lecturers are already confirmed: * Maureen Donnelly, University of Buffalo, New York, USA (Mereology, Location, and Time) * Stefan Schulz, Medical University of Graz, Austria (Biomedical Ontology) * Peter Simons, Trinity College Dublin and University of Salzburg * Arina Britz, Stellenbosch University, South Africa (First-order Logic and Description Logics) * Maria Keet, University of Cape Town, South Africa (Semantics and Conceptual Modelling) Registration ------------ Registration to the school is on a first-come first-served basis. Check the registration page for further information and to register soon: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/registration.html Reduced registration fees are available for IAOA members. For information on membership, benefits and how to join, please see: http://iaoa.org/membership/membership.html Organization ------------ International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) http://iaoa.org/ Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa https://www.cs.uct.ac.za/ General chair: Aldo Gangemi Programme chair: Antony Galton Local organisation: Maria Keet, Zubeida Khan, Zola Mahlaza Contact: Website: http://isao2018.cs.uct.ac.za/ General inquiries: aldo.gangemi@unibo.it local inquiries: mkeet@cs.uct.ac.za
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