Call for Papers

ONTOBRAS 2023 - 16th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil

(held with the 14th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology - ICBO 2023)

August 28 to September 01, 2023, Brasília – DF, Brasil

https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras/



The Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil (ONTOBRAS) aims to bring together the community of researchers and students investigating Ontology in Computer Science and Information Science, as well as professionals in the information industry, providing opportunities and a scientific environment to exchange knowledge on theories, methods, languages and tools for ontology engineering and experiences in applying ontologies to solve various problems.

ONTOBRAS aims to expand and strengthen the Ontology community in Brazil, through the exchange of experiences among researchers, students and professionals, and by encouraging proximity between Academia and Industry, allowing cutting-edge solutions designed in these environments to influence real applications in different sectors.

Additionally, students whose research regards ontologies will have in the Doctoral and Masters Consortium on Ontologies (WTDO) a tailored opportunity to discuss their proposals with experts and receive feedback to advance their works.

This year, ONTOBRAS will be held with the 14th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2023).

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit theoretical, technical, and practical research contributions that directly or indirectly deal with the topics of interest presented in the call for papers. Papers ranging from philosophical and theoretical foundations to new technologies and innovative applications are welcome.


IMPORTANT DATES

Main Track

Submission Deadline: June 14, 2023
Author notification: : July 12, 2023
Camera ready: July 21, 2023

WTDO

Submission Deadline: June 18, 2023
Author notification: : July 12, 2023
Camera ready: July 21, 2023

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest for ONTOBRAS 2023 include, but are not limited to:

Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling:
Ontological foundations for conceptual modeling and metamodeling
Foundational and upper ontologies
Semantic consistency
Ontology-based conceptual modeling tools and environments
Ontologies and knowledge organization:
Facet Theory and Theory of Concepts
Terminology, Folksonomies, Thesauri, Taxonomies, Metadata
Documentary languages
Knowledge discovery and reasoning
Knowledge representation and management
Ontology governance
Ontology Engineering:
Methodologies, techniques,practices, languages and tools
Composition and modularity
Interoperability between ontologies, integration, mapping and alignment
Ontological language interoperability
Ontology patterns and anti-patterns
Ontology evaluation and validation
Integration problems, practices and methods
Ontology Enrichment and semantic enrichment
(Semi-)automated ontology development
Semantic Web:
Modeling
Information retrieval
Ontology-based search
Linked open data (LOD) applications
Ontology and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Linguistic ontologies applied to text processing
Computational linguistics
Access, integration and exchange of data based on databases and ontologies on the Web
Knowledge graphs (construction, maintenance, reasoning) and virtual knowledge graphs
Social and human aspects of the Semantic Web
Ontology Applications:
Ontology for e-science, life sciences, e-business, multimedia and cultural heritage
Domain ontologies (Education, Health, Smart Cities, Government and others)
Ontology-driven information system design
Ontology-driven business modeling
Ontology tools: construction, reasoning, evaluation
Data management and FAIR principles
Ontologies and data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence
Ontology Visualization

The complete call for papers, containing details for paper submission, are available on the ONTOBRAS website (https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras/).


ORGANIZATION

General Chairs
Luan Fonseca Garcia (UFRGS, Brazil)
Rita Berardi (UTFPR, Brazil)

Program Committee Chairs
João Rebelo Moreira (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Monalessa Perini Barcellos (UFES, Brazil)

WTDO Chairs
Amanda Damaceno de Souza (FUMEC University, Brazil)
Claudenir M. Fonseca (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Publicity Chairs
Amanda Damaceno de Souza (FUMEC University, Brazil)
Jordana Sarmenghi Salamon (UFES)