Preface
This proceedings contents the papers accepted for presentation at SAOA 2015, the 1st
Argentine Symposium on Ontologies and their Applications (Simposio Argentino de
Ontologías y sus Aplicaciones), held on August 2-3, 2015 in Rosario, Argentina, at the
Universidad Nacional de Rosario - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura
(FCEIA-UNR). SAOA 2015 was part of the 44th JAIIO, the 44th Argentine Conference on
Informatics, organized by SADIO. JAIIO is organized as a series of thematic symposia including
topics such as software engineering, artificial intelligence, technology, agroinformatics, high
performance computing, industrial informatics, free software, law, health, information society,
and a students contest.

The Argentine Symposium on Ontologies and their Applications aims at providing a meeting
point among researchers from different fields as well as professionals from industries having
interest on ontologies. SAOA encourages the submission of original contributions ranging
from academic research to industrial and business applications having a significant impact as
well as lessons learned and best practices in ontology development. This is the first national
symposium on the topic of ontologies. We hope it will provide the motivation needed to
advance research on this interesting and influential topic.

We are very grateful to the authors for submitting their works, to all the program committee
members for doing an excellent job and to all the people involved in the JAIIO organization,
represented by Prof. Diego Milone, from Sinc(i) - FICH-UNL/CONICET, Prof. Pablo Granito,
from CIFASIS - CONICET/UNR; and Prof. Rosita Wachenchauzer, President of SADIO, for
providing the guidance and support along the way.


Our special thanks are also addressed to the invited speakers Prof. Giancarlo Guizzardi and
Prof. João Paulo Andrade Almeida.


September, 2015                                                            Horacio Leone
                                                                           Pablo Fillottrani