26-31 July 2009
Moscow, Russia
===First Call for Papers===
ICCS'09 Conceptual Structures: Leveraging Semantic Technologies
26 - 31 July 2009, State University Higher School of Economics (SU
HSE) , Moscow, Russia
http://www.iccs.info
The 17th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2009)
is the latest in a series of annual conferences that have been held in
Europe, Australia, and North America since 1993. The focus of the
conference has been the representation and analysis of conceptual
knowledge for research and practical application. ICCS brings together
researchers and practioners in information and computer sciences as
well as social science to explore novel ways that conceptual
structures can be deployed.
Arising from the research on knowledge representation and reasoning
with Conceptual Graphs, over the years ICCS has broadened its scope to
include innovations from a wider range of theories and related
practices, among them other form of graph-based reasoning systems like
RDF or Existential Graphs, Formal Concept Analysis, Semantic Web
Technologies, Ontologies, Concept Mapping and more. Accordingly, ICCS
represents a family of approaches related to conceptual structures
that build on the successes with techniques derived from artificial
intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, applied
mathematics and lattice theory, computational linguistics, conceptual
modeling and design, diagrammatic reasoning and logic, intelligent
systems and knowledge management. The activity of the field is
witnessed by two recently published books ("Conceptual Structures in
Practice", ed. by Hitzler and Schrfe and "Graph-based Knowledge
Representation: Computational Foundations of Conceptual Graphs" by
Chein and Mugnier) as well as by an ISO standard ("Common Logic", ISO/
IEC 24707) which orginated in this community.
The 2009 ICCS's theme "leveraging semantic technologies" hints to the
large overlap of the research fields of semantic technologies and
conceptual structures, and emphasizes the goal of closer connecting
these two areas in order to obtain a mutual benefit.
Papers for ICCS 2009 are invited on, but not restricted to, the
following topics:
* conceptual structures - theory and applications
* semantic technologies and conceptual structures[FD6]
* the interplay of conceptual structures with language, semantics,
semiotics and pragmatics
* conceptual data processing, analysis and conceptual logic
* modeling, representation and visualization of concepts
* conceptual knowledge acquisition
* knowledge representation and reasoning with conceptual structures
* applied conceptual structures including data mining and knowledge
discovery
* theory and applications of formal ontologies
* graph-based knowledge representation and reasoning
Authors are invited to submit papers describing both theoretical and
practical research outcomes. 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 recommend
the use of LaTeX2e for the final version. For more details see http://www.s
pringer.de/comp/lncs
. Position papers (up to 4 pages) are also welcome.
Deadlines
* Monday January 5, 2009: a one page abstract submitted via conference
website (Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and
conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper.)
* Monday January 12, 2009: full paper (not more than 14 pages) in PDF
format submitted via conference website
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/l
ncs)
. A precondition for publication is that the final version is in full
compliance with Springer's format.
== Conference Chairs ==
General Chair
* Sergei Kuznetsov (State University Higher School of
Economics, Moscow, Russia)
skuznetsov@yandex.ru
Program Chairs
* Frithjof Dau (SAP Research CEC Dresden, Germany)
frithjof.dau@sap.com
* Sebastian Rudolph (Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe,
Germany)
rudolph@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de