12th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Ontology is a cross-disciplinary field concerned 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, Linguistics, Knowledge Management and many others.
The 12th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil (Ontobras)
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, the
community has put forward efforts in integrating previous events on Ontologies that happened in Brazil in recent years, in
order to create a unique highly scientifically qualified international
forum for presenting and discussing the subject in Brazil.
Contents
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Program
·
Mara Abel
(INF-UFRGS)
· Joel
Luís Carbonera (INF-UFRGS)
· João
Paulo A. Almeida (UFES)
· Marcello
Bax (UFMG)
· Fernanda
Baião (PUC-Rio)
· Rita
Berardi (UTFPR)
· Júlia
Eidelwein (INF-UFRGS)
· Bruno
Eduardo Firnkes (INF-UFRGS)
· Alcione
Oliveira (UFV)
· Alessander Botti
Benevides (NEMO – UFES)
·
Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Research
Brazil and EMAp/FGV)
· Ana
Ozaki (UNIBZ)
· Andreia
Malucelli (PUCPR)
· Cesar
Tacla CPGEI (UTFPR)
· Christiano
Pessanha (UFMG)
· Clever Farias (USP)
· Cláudio
Gottschalg-Duque (UnB)
· Cristine Griffo
(NEMO – UFES)
· Fernando
Cruz (UnB)
· Fernando
Gauthier UFSC
· Fernando
Silva Parreiras (FUMEC University)
· Flavio
Correa Da Silva (USP)
· Fred
Freitas (UFPE)
·
Gabriela
Henning (INTEC – CONICET-UNL)
· Giancarlo
Guizzardi (NEMO – UFES)
· João
Lima Oliveria (Federal Senate)
· José
Laurindo Campos Dos Santos (INPA)
· José
Parente De Oliveira (ITA)
· Joselaine Valaski
(PUC-PR)
· Lais Salvador (UFBA)
· Laura
Caliusco (UTN)
· Luan Garcia (INF-UFRGS)
· Luis
Olsina (GIDIS_Web
– UNLPam)
· Marcela
Vegetti INGAR (CONICET/UTN)
· Maria
Das Graças Da Silva Teixeira (UFES)
· Maria
Luiza Campos (PPGI – IM/NCE – UFRJ)
· Mauricio
Almeida (UFMG)
· Monalessa Barcellos UFES
· Pablo
Fillottrani (UNS)
· Pablo
Villarreal (CIDISI – UTN – FRSF)
· Rafael
Peñaloza (UNIMIB)
· Regina
Braga (UFJF)
· Renata
Baracho (UFMG)
· Renata
Guizzardi (UFES)
· Renata
Wassermann (USP)
· Ricardo
Falbo (UFES)
· Sandro
Rama Fiorini (IBM)
· Silvio
Gonnet (INGAR – CONICET – UTN – CIDISI – FRSF UTN)
· Tiago
Prince Sales (UniTrento)
· Veruska Zamborlini
(UvA)
· Vitor
Silva Souza (UFES)
· Vânia
Vidal (UFC)
Aproved articles were
published in the The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA)
Series in the CEUR Workshop proceedings.
Relationships and events: a general theory of
reification and truthmaking
Language:
English
Reification is a standard technique in conceptual modeling and knowledge
representation. Classic examples are the reification of relationships and
events. But how to decide what should be reified? Recent work on formal
ontology offers us a simple answer: put in the domain of discourse those
entities that are responsible for the truth of our propositions. These are
called truthmakers. In the recent years, with
Giancarlo Guizzardi and Daniele Porello
we have developed a novel theory of relations and relationships based on a
re-visitation of Guizzardi’s relators
that builds on the ontological notion of truthmaking.
In this tutorial I will illustrate this theory in some detail, presenting
several modeling patterns that account for the different ways relationships and
events can be considered as truthmakers, and showing
how most relationships can be seen as the focus of events, which emerge from
the context (the scene) they occur in.
Guarino, N., & Guizzardi, G. (2015). We need to discuss the relationship: Re-visiting
relationships as modeling constructs. In International
conference on advanced information systems engineering, caise
2015 (pp. 279–294).
Guarino,
N., & Guizzardi, G. (2016). Relationships
and events: Towards a general theory of reification and truthmaking.
In AI*IA 2016: Advances in artificial intelligence, Genova,
Italy, November 29 – December 1, 2016 (pp. 237–249).
Guarino,
N., Sales, T. P., & Guizzardi, G. (2018). Reification and truthmaking patterns.
In Conceptual modeling – 37th international conference,
ER 2018, Xi’an, China, October 22-25, 2018. (pp. 151–165).
Events and their context
Language: English
Transforming
clinical and clinical research data to ontology-driven linked data
Language:
English
In the daily practice of a biomedical informaticist
with a specialization requests for transforming pre-existing, mostly tabular,
data to data that can be curated and consumed using
Semantic Web Technologies (SWT) are still quiet common. The reasons for these request differ from project to project to project, but
they are certainly due to the advantages of semantic web technologies when it
comes to semantic interoperability and the schema-free data presentation, which
fosters maintainability and flexibility. The request and the expectations of
how SWT data created from a given data set should clearly, often demonstrate a
lack of appreciation of the level of difference between the strategies of how
data is represented in tabular ways and in SWT. In this course we will discuss
concrete examples of how the results of a data transformation from tabular
data, using for example common data elements, to SWT-based data for clinical
and clinical research data ought to look. We will focus on the representational
aspects over questions of tooling in this course.
The Use of Axiomatically-Rich Ontologies
in Biomedical Research
Language:
English
There is a communication gap between the biomedical informatics
community and the computer science/artificial intelligence community regarding
the terms “semantics”, “semantic integration”, and “knowledge representation”.
This communication gap has led to wide-spread uptake clinical terminologies and
common data models (CDM) promising to provide semantics, semantic integration”,
and knowledge representation. Recently, the demand for integrating and
analyzing increasingly large data sets in clinical and translational research
has led to numerous efforts to harmonize existing CDMs and integrate data curated based on those models. These efforts raise the
question of how to appropriately represent the semantics of data. The question
of how to formally assure that mappings between CDMs are correct is often
overlooked. The answer to these challenges lies in using axiomatically-rich ontologies that allow verifying that terms refer to the
same set of entities using automatic inference. This verification is only
possible by building ontologies that represent the
content of the scientific disciplines in accordance with the reality of the
domain of the disciplines. The presentation will explore how a strong logical
representation of the scientific domain does not only foster harmonization of
CDMs, but also informs and facilitates the transition from data over
information to knowledge and thus, support meaningful use.
Conceptual Models as Ontological Contracts
Language: Portuguese
In the years to come, we will experience an increasing demand for
building Reference Conceptual Models in critical domains in reality, as well as
employing them to address classes of problems, for which sophisticated
conceptual distinctions are demanded. One of these key problems is Semantic
Interoperability. Effective semantic interoperability requires an alignment
between worldviews or, to put it more accurately, it requires the precise
understanding of the relation between the (inevitable) ontological commitments
assumed by different representations and the systems based on them (including sociotechnical systems). In this talk, I argue that,
in this scenario, Reference Conceptual Models should be seen as Ontological
Contracts, i.e., as precise descriptions that explicitly represent the
Ontological Commitments of a collective of stakeholders sharing a certain
worldview. I then elaborate on a number of theoretical, methodological and
computational tools required for building these meaning contracts. Firstly, I
discuss the importance of Formal Ontology in the philosophical sense and, in
particular, I elaborate on the role of foundational axiomatic theories and
principles in the design of conceptual modeling languages and methodologies.
Secondly, I discuss the role played by four types of complexity management
tools that are derived from these foundational theories, namely: (a)
Ontological Design Patterns (ODPs), as methodological mechanisms for encoding
these ontological theories; (b) Ontology Pattern Languages (OPLs), as systems
of representation that take ODPs as higher-granularity modeling
primitives; (c) Pattern-Based Graph Operations that can suitably support
Modularization, Model Abstraction, and Model Recoding in Large-Scale Conceptual
Models; (d) Ontological Anti-Patterns (OAPs), as structures that can be
used to systematically identify possible deviations between the set of valid
state of affairs admitted by a model (the actual ontological commitment) and
the set of state of affairs actually intended by the stakeholders (the intended
ontological commitment); Finally, I illustrate the role played by a
particular type of computer-based visual simulation approach in the validation
of these reference models as well as for anti-pattern elicitation and
rectification.
Knowledge Representation in Oil & Gas
Language: English
Processes in Oil & Gas business are knowledge intensive, having
singular needs for knowledge representation and processing. In this talk, I will
specifically discuss a multimodal knowledge representation framework tailored
for the Oil & Gas domain as well as some aspects related to knowledge-based
machine learning. I will also give a brief overview of KR tools being developed
at IBM Research Brazil to tackle some of these problems.
Time
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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8:30-9:00
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Subscription
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9:00-10:30
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Full articles presentation session 1
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Full articles
presentation session 3
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Course:
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Lecture:
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10:30-11:00
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Coffee break
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Coffee break
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Coffee break
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Coffee break
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11:00-12:30
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Speech:
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WTDO 1
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Course:
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Course:
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12:30-14:00
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Lunch
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Lunch
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Lunch
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Lunch
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14:00-15:30
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Short papers presentation session
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WTDO 2
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Speech:
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Course:
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15:30-16:00
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Coffee break
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Posters presentation
session 1
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Coffee break
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Posters presentation
session 2
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Coffee break
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Posters presentation
session 3
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Coffee break
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16:00-17:00
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Articles presentation
session
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WTDO 3
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Pannel:
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Full articles
presentation session 4
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17:00-17:30
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Event’s Closure
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17:30-18:30
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Ontobras 2019 Opening
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Speech:
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Steering commitee
pannel
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19:30
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Event’s Dinner
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Full paper presentation sessions:
Session |
Session
1 |
Session
2 |
Session
3 |
Session
4 |
Day |
Monday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Thursday |
Schedule |
9:00-10:30 |
16:00-17:30 |
9:00-10:30 |
15:00-16:00 |
Papers |
An Ontological
Model for Turbidite Channel Migration - Fabricio H. Rodrigues, Luan
Fonseca Garcia, Renata Dos Santos Alvarenga Kuchle and Mara Abel |
Matching BFO, DOLCE, GFO and SUMO: an empirical
evaluation of OAEI 2018 matching systems - Daniela Schmidt, Cassia Trojahn and Renata Vieira |
Reconhecimento
de Atividades em Ambientes de Vivência Assistida: uma Proposta Explorando um
Modelo Ontológico - Roger Machado, Felipe Luzzardi
Rosa, Eduardo Abreu, Ana Marilza Pernas e Adenauer Yamin |
Extending SUMO to Geological Times - Alexandre Tessarollo, Alexandre Rademaker and Adam
Pease |
A Category-theoretic Approach for the Detection of Conservativity Violations in Ontology Alignments - Cauã Roca Antunes, Alexandre Rademaker and Mara
Abel |
Análise
de Desempenho de Ferramentas para Persistência de Dados Ontológicos em
Triplas: Experimentos e Resultados - Felipe Luzzardi
da Rosa, Roger Machado, Tiago Thompsen Primo, Adenauer Corrêa Yamin e Ana Marilza Pernas |
Representação
Ontológica de Frameworks de Mapeamento Objeto/Relacional - Félix Zanetti,
Camila Z. Aguiar and Vitor E. Silva Souza |
Applying
Multi-Level Theory to an Information Security Incident Domain Ontology - Marta Faria,
Glaucia Figueiredo, Kelli Cordeiro, Maria Claudia
Cavalcanti and Maria Luiza Campos |
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A
knowledge organization
system for image classification
and retrieval in petroleum exploration domain - Mara Abel, Eduardo Simões Lopes Gastal, Cassiana Roberta Lizzoni Michelin, Luiza Gonçalves Maggi,
Bruno Eduardo Firnkes, Felix Eduardo Huaroto Pachas and Renata dos Santos Alvarenga |
Ontological Anti-Patterns in Taxonomic Structures -
Tiago Prince Sales and Giancarlo Guizzardi |
Measurement
Task Ontology - Lucas
Santos, Monalessa Barcellos, Ricardo Falbo, Cássio Reginato and Patrícia Campos |
Poster
presentation sessions:
Session |
Session
1 |
Session
2 |
Session
3 |
Day |
Monday |
Monday |
Wednesday |
Schedule |
15:30-16:00 |
15:30-16:00 |
15:30-16:00 |
Papers |
Connecting Open Data and Sustainable Development
Goals using a Semantic Knowledge Graph approach - José Eduardo Eguiguren Palacios and Nelson Piedra |
Proposta
de ontologia de apoio a classificação de processos
judiciais com o uso da Metodologia Methontology -
Luciane Adolfo and Aires Rover |
WebMBO:
Uma Ontologia para Comportamento de Malware Web - Alann Perini, Rodrigo Bonacin and Andre Gregio |
Proposta
de uma ontologia para o sistema eleitoral brasileiro - Jefferson de Oliveira
Chaves and José Leomar Todesco |
Um
Modelo Ontológico para Auxiliar os Educadores na Avaliação do Desempenho
Acadêmico de Alunos no Ensino a Distância - Laecio
Costa, Leandro Sanches, Laís Salvador and Marlo Souza |
Short papers’
flash-presentations:
Session |
Session
1 |
Day |
Monday |
Schedule |
14:00-15:30 |
Papers |
Connecting Open Data and Sustainable Development
Goals using a Semantic Knowledge Graph approach - José Eduardo Eguiguren Palacios and Nelson Piedra |
Proposta
de uma ontologia para o sistema eleitoral brasileiro - Jefferson de Oliveira
Chaves and José Leomar Todesco |
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Proposta
de ontologia de apoio a classificação de processos
judiciais com o uso da Metodologia Methontology -
Luciane Adolfo and Aires Rover |
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Um
Modelo Ontológico para Auxiliar os Educadores na Avaliação do Desempenho
Acadêmico de Alunos no Ensino a Distância - Laecio
Costa, Leandro Sanches, Laís Salvador and Marlo Souza |
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WebMBO:
Uma Ontologia para Comportamento de Malware Web - Alann Perini, Rodrigo Bonacin and Andre Gregio |
WTDO presentation
sessions:
Session |
Session
1 |
Session
2 |
Session
3 |
Day |
Tuesday |
Tuesday |
Tuesday |
Schedule |
11:00-12:30 |
14:00-15:30 |
16:00-17:00 |
Papers |
Representações formais, métodos linguísticos e de
governança aplicados à integração de terminologias clínicas (Tese de
doutorado) - Jeanne Louize Emygdio
and Maurício Barcellos Almeida |
Arquitetura Inteligente para Integração Semântica de
Dados do Setor de Energia Elétrica (Tese de doutorado) - Joao
Luiz Barbosa and Marcelo Bax |
Arandu,
um Chatbot para construção de
Ontologias guiado por uma Ontologia de Topo (Tese de doutorado) -
Adriano Costa and Fred Freitas |
Análise de dados clínicos textuais de Prontuários
Eletrônicos do Paciente para integração com terminologias médicas
padronizadas (Tese de doutorado) - Amanda Souza and
Mauricio Almeida |
Método de Integração Semântica Incremental de Dados
Científicos Baseado em Ontologias (Tese de doutorado) - Marcello Peixoto Bax and José Eugênio de Assis
Gonçalves |
Um modelo de ontologias folksonomizadas
para a auditoria em instituições financeiras no Brasil (Tese de doutorado) -
Isa Salgado |
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Identificação e classificação de casos de violência com
o uso de Data Science (Dissertação de mestrado) -
Eduardo Duarte, Anilton Garcia, Jair Silva and Edleusa Cupertino |
Um modelo de notações customizáveis
para representação de ontologias (Dissertação de mestrado) - Wander Limeira and Dilvan Abreu Moreira |
September
2nd-5th, 2019 – Porto Alegre – RS, Brazil
In
2019, the 12a edition of ONTOBRAS has two tracks:
·
Main track:
articles describing research contributions in ontologies
theory, development and applications.
·
3o
Masters Consortium on Ontologies (WTDO): articles
describing master or doctoral ongoing research project on ontologies,
whose theses and dissertations have not been presented on the date of the
event.
Ontology
is a cross-disciplinary field concerned 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, Linguistics, Knowledge Management, Semantic Web and
many others.
The
Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil (ONTOBRAS) foresees an opportunity and
provides a scientific environment in which researchers and professionals in the
areas of Information Science and Computer Science can exchange knowledge about
theories, methodologies, languages, tools and experiences related to
theoretical basis, to the development and application of ontologies.
In addition, Masters and PhD students whose research is focused on Ontologies will have in the Masters Consortium on Ontologies (WTDO) a space specially designed to discuss
their proposals with specialists, receive feedback on methodological issues and
develop an important network of contacts with the community.
In
its 12th edition, ONTOBRAS 2019 is part of a tradition that has been in place
since 2005 in Brazil, and was defined by the brazilian ontology community as a unique forum, highly
qualified scientifically, for the presentation and discussion of ontologies and cases of application in Brazil. The WTDO is
in its 3rd edition and has been consolidating as a rich space for discussion
among researchers from different generations, contributing to the expansion and
renewal of the ontology researchers community in
Brazil.
Therefore,
we provide a non-comprehensive list of areas and researchers communities from
which we expect to receive submissions:
·
Conceptual
modeling: conceptual methods and tools for formal representation of concepts in
ontologies.
·
Information
Science: construction and use of taxonomies, thesauri, knowledge organization
systems, information indexing and other applications.
·
Logic and
Reasoning: languages and systems of formal representation applied to
representation and reasoning with ontologies.
·
Philosophy:
philosophical aspects that support ontological modeling, top ontologies, mereology, essence
and identity, among others.
·
Software
engineering: ontology representation languages, system architectures,
methodologies for developing systems based on ontologies.
·
Linguistics
and natural language processing: extraction of concepts, determination of
meaning.
·
Artificial
Intelligence: integration of ontologies and other approaches
of AI, such as learning, agents, knowledge based systems, among others.
·
Ontology
applications in semantic web, databases, business modeling, information
retrieval, various areas purposes (such as e-science, life sciences,
e-business, e-government, culture, education).
Researchers
and practitioners are invited to submit theoretical, technical and
practical research contributions that directly or indirectly address the
issues above. We welcome submissions from philosophical and theoretical
foundations to new technologies and innovative applications.
ONTOBRAS
this year will feature the following keynote speeches:
·
Nicola Guarino
(LOA, Itália)
·
Mathias Brochhausen (University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences, EUA) e
·
Giancarlo Guizzardi
(Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Itália e UFES,
Brasil).
Submissions:
·
MAIN TRACK: May 7th (abstract) – May 13th
(paper)
·
WTDO: May
13th
·
Notification of acceptance for presentation: NEW
DATE June 17th, 2019
·
Submission of publication version: June 24th,
2019
Suggested
topics of interest for the event include, but are not limited to:
Ontology and
Conceptual Modeling:
·
Ontological
foundations for conceptual modeling and metamodeling
·
Foundational
and 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
·
Ontology design
patterns and anti-patterns
·
Ontology
validation
·
Integration
methods, problems and practice
Semantic Web:
· Modelling
· Information retrieval
· Ontology Search
· LOD
applications
·
Ontology and
Natural Language Processing:
·
Linguistic ontologies applied to text processing
· Computational Linguistics
Ontology applications:
·
Ontology for
e-science, life-sciences, e-business and cultural applications
· Knowledge management
·
Ontologies and semantic technologies in education
· Ontology-driven information
systems design
· Business
modeling
· Ontology Visualization
Submissions
(maximum of 12 pages) must be written in PORTUGUESE, SPANISH or ENGLISH. All
submissions will be reviewed by experts in the field. Based on reviewers’
assessments, a submission may be recommended to be accepted for oral
presentation (typically well-evaluated articles that describe research with
clear results) or for quick oral and poster presentation (usually
well-evaluated articles describing work in progress).
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, OpenOffice and
Latex can be downloaded at:
Submissions
to the main track must be made via Easychair using
the following URL:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontobras2019
The
conference proceedings will be published in the online journal CEUR-WS.
WTDO
2019 will accept research proposals at master and doctoral level, and will be
held during Ontobras 2019, in Porto Alegre. Master or PhD students interested in participating in
detailed discussions about their ongoing research at WTDO are invited to submit
their research proposal
and research sheet.
The
Research Sheet must appear on the first 2 pages of the submission, in which the
student must fill in the template on
this link.
The
Research Proposal should appear on the 3rd page of the submission, and should
occupy a maximum of 6 additional pages, including references (each submission
must contain a maximum of 8 pages, including the research sheet and proposal).
The pages of the research proposal must follow the TEMPLATE of the Brazilian
Computing Society (SBC). Templates for MS Word, LibreOffice
and LaTeX can be downloaded from the SBC website:
Submissions
should be written in PORTUGUESE, SPANISH or ENGLISH, in a PDF file. The
research proposals accepted for presentation in WTDO will be published next to
the proceedings of Ontobras.
Submissions
must be done through Easychair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wtdo2019
In
addition, the research advisers should send an e-mail to wtdo2019@easychair.org
stating that they are aware of and agree to the submission of work to WTDO
2019.
The
same manuscript (text or title) can not be submitted
on both Ontobras tracks. Research papers already
defended or with a date of defense planned for before the event will not be
considered.
The
proposals submitted will be analyzed by the Ontobras
steering committee. The review will take into account both its originality,
clarity and relevance in defining the problem and the purpose of the research,
the analysis of the state of the art and related works, the adequacy of the
research method used, the quality of the text, the research potential to
advance the area of research in Ontologies and if the
work is in a phase where the student can benefit from participating in the
Workshop (research proposals that are already concluded or defended will not be
accepted). Submissions not selected for presentation at WTDO will also receive
feedback from reviewers.
Accepted
papers must be presented
exclusively by the candidate student, at the Workshop during Ontobras. The student will receive feedback from a board of
senior researchers in the area, and the session will be open to all Ontobras participants. All presenters should attend all of
the Workshop sessions in order to create a qualified venue for good
discussions. The schedule will provide the presenters with substantial time for
discussions and questions by participating researchers and other students.
WTDO
2019 presentations will be evaluated in
loco by previously designated area experts, and the results of
evaluations (considering both submission and presentation) will serve as a
basis for selection of the 2 best papers (1 at master level and 1 at doctoral
level) of WTDO 2019. The best papers will be announced during the event, and
will receive as a prize the exemption of the registration fee in the next
edition of Ontobras, valid exclusively for the
student author of the selected research.