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3rd International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics (May 2006, Saarbruecken)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Third International Workshop on
PHILOSOPHY AND INFORMATICS (WSPI 2006)
May 3-4, 2006, Saarbr?cken (Germany)
http://wspi2006.workshop.hm
Paper submission deadline: 16 January 2006
The Third International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics is organize
d
by the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science
(http://ifomis.org) and the Special Interest Group on
Philosophy and Informatics of the German Informatics Society
(http://philosophyandinformatics.org).
GOAL OF THE PHILOSOPHY AND INFORMATICS WORKSHOP SERIES
The workshops are designed to encourage interdisciplinary exchange on the
philosophical foundations of informatics. They seek to bring together
researchers from philosophy and informatics and neighboring disciplines in
order to explore common points of interest and to develop an interface
between the disciplines and a common vocabulary.
The workshop also serves as the annual meeting platform of the members of
the Special Interest Group on Philosophy and Informatics. The 2006 Workshop
has a special focus on the area of bio- and biomedical
informatics.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
Philosophers and informaticians/computer scientists or representatives of
related disciplines with an interest in the crossdisciplinary exchange of
ideas.
WORKSHOP LANGUAGE
The workshop will be held in English.
TOPICS
WSPI 2006 focuses on bioinformatics, but contributions on philosophy
and informatics in general are also invited. The main topics are:
* Philosophical ontology in informatics, with special focus on
bioinformatics
- Ontology, terminology, and taxonomy
- The ontology of the Electronic Health Record
* Philosophy and artificial intelligence
- Knowledge in software
- Reliability
- Cognitions in software agents
* Philosophical aspects of context in informatics and bioinformatics
* The domain problem
- Questions of isolation and transfer
- Adaptation to logics
* Philosophical contributions to knowledge representation in informatics
and bioinformatics
* Epistemology in informatics and bioinformatics
* Philosophical reflections on methods of evaluation in informatics and
bioinformatics
SUBMISSIONS
Workshop submission will be electronic, in pdf format only. A submission
system will be available at the workshop website in due time. Submitted
papers must not exceed 12 pages and should conform to
Springer LNCS style (see below). Papers must be written in English.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop
and present the contribution in order to be published in the workshop
proceedings.
Formatting:
Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX and the Springer llncs
class files available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
While the pages in the final camera-ready form of a paper must be
unnumbered (this is the default in llncs style), numbered pages are
preferred for reviewing. Page numbering can be turned on using the
LaTeX command \pagestyle{plain}.
Do not hesitate to contact the workshop chairs for further questions:
mailto:wspi2006@dfki.uni-kl.de.
Workshop proceedings:
All accepted papers will be published as a technical report (with ISSN)
as well as electronically at http://CEUR-WS.org (for past workshops,
see http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-130/, http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-112/).
Review process:
All submissions will be subject to review by the WSPI Program
Committee. The workshop chairs and the organizing committee have final
authority over the review process and all decisions relating to
acceptance of papers. Review criteria include originality of ideas,
technical soundness, significance of results, and quality of
presentation. The intention is to have three reviews per submission.
Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be
mailed to the corresponding authors.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 16 January 2006
Notification of acceptance: 20 February 2006
Camera-ready copy: 20 March 2006
Workshop: 3-4 May, 2006
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
The workshop schedule will be announced at the workshop website.
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Prof. Ingvar Johansson,
ingvar dot johansson (at) ifomis dot uni-saarland dot de
IFOMIS, Saarland University, 66041 Saarbr?cken, Germany
Dipl.-Ing. Bertin Klein,
bertin dot klein(at) dfki dot uni-kl dot de,
DFKI GmbH, Erwin-Schr?dinger-Str. 57, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Dr. Thomas Roth-Berghofer,
trb (at) dfki dot uni-kl dot de,
University of Kaiserslautern / DFKI GmbH,
Erwin-Schr?dinger-Str. 57, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Prof. Gregor B?chel, University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany
PD Dr. Ruth Hagengruber, University of Paderborn, Germany
Prof. Barry Smith, IFOMIS, Saarbr?cken, Germany
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Stephan Baumann, Competence Center Computational Culture, DFKI
Paul Buitelaar, Competence Center Semantic Web, DFKI, Germany
Werner Ceusters, European Centre for Ontological Research, Germany
Luciano Floridi, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK
Pierre Grenon, IFOMIS, Saarland University, Germany
Nicola Guarino, Lab. for Applied Ontology, Trento, Italy
Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Norbert Jastroch, MET Communications GmbH, Bad Homburg, Germany
Klaus Kornwachs, Brandenburg Univ. of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
Carsten Lutz, University of Dresden, Germany
J?rgen M?ller, Univ. of Cooperative Education, Mannheim, Germany
Steve Probert, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
Michael M. Richter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France
Francis Rousseaux, IRCAM, Paris, France
Stefan Schulz, SCE, Carleton University, Canada
Marcus Spies, University of Munich, Germany
Boris Wyssusek, Queensland University of Technology, Australia