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International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2007), Sheffield (UK), July 22-27, 2007

Call for Papers

ICCS'07 Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Architectures for Smart 
Applications

22 - 27 July, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

http://www.iccs.info
http://www.iccs.info/call_for_papers.html

The 15th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2007) is
the latest in a series of annual conferences that have been held in
Europe, Australia, and North America since 1993. The focus of these
conferences has been the representation and analysis of conceptual
knowledge for research and business applications. ICCS brings together
researchers in information technology, arts, humanities and social science
to explore novel ways that can conceptual structures can be employed in
information systems.

Arising originally out of the work of IBM in Conceptual Graphs, and
developed by learned researchers and business organisations such as Boeing
and Microsoft, over the years ICCS has broadened its scope to include a
wider range of theories and practices. Amongst these are Formal Concept
Analysis, Description Logics, the Semantic Web, the Pragmatic Web,
Ontologies, Multi-agent Systems, Concept Mapping, and more. Accordingly
conceptual structures represent a family of approaches that builds on the
successes of artificial intelligence, business intelligence, computational
linguistics, conceptual modelling, information and web technologies, user
modelling, and knowledge management.

ICCS 2007's theme is "Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Architectures for
Smart Applications". From these architectures, smart applications arise
that allow enterprises to share meaning with its interconnected computing
resources, and realise transactions that would otherwise remain as lost
business opportunities. Conceptual structures and smart applications
integrate the creativity of individuals and organisations with the
productivity of computers for a meaningful digital future.

Papers for ICCS 2007 will be invited on the following topics:

    * conceptual structures (theory, applications, and experience with
      case studies);
    * their interplay with human or organisational experience, language,
      semantics and pragmatics;
    * concept analysis and contextual logic,
    * modelling, representation, and visualization of concepts;
    * conceptual knowledge acquisition;
    * and the theory and applications of formal ontologies.

Comparisons of methods and representations on the basis of reasoning
ability, expressiveness, ease of use, and computational performance are
welcome. Integration of methodologies, user interfaces, semantic web
technologies, multi-agent systems, knowledge use, reuse, and integration,
and business product tools are all of high interest.

Authors are invited to submit papers describing both theoretical and
practical research. Papers accepted or under review by other conferences
or journals are not acceptable as submissions to ICCS. The language of the
conference will be English. Submission Details

Papers are limited to 14 pages in Springer's LNCS format. We strongly
recommend the use of LaTeX2e for the final version. For more details see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs. Position papers (up to 4 pages) are also
welcome. Deadlines

    * Friday January 5, 2007: a one page abstract submitted via the
      conference website. (to be advised) Abstracts should clearly state
      the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in
      the final paper.
    * Friday January 12, 2007: full paper in PDF format submitted via the
      conference website. (to be advised)

Final acceptance will be based on the full-length paper, which if
accepted, must be presented at the conference. Papers accepted for
publication will appear in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Series by Springer-Verlag (see http://www.springeronline.com/lncs. A
precondition for publication is that the final version is in full
compliance with Springer's format. Conference Chairs

General Chair:
Simon Polovina, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, S.Polovina @ shu.ac.uk

Program Chairs:
Richard Hill, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, R.Hill @ shu.ac.uk
Uta Priss, Napier University, UK, u.priss @ napier.ac.uk