26-31 July 2009
Moscow, Russia
===Second 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 t
he
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 be
en
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 nove
l
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 the
m
other form of graph-based reasoning systems like RDF or Existential Graphs,
Formal Concept Analysis, Semantic Web Technologies, Ontologies, Concept Map
ping
and more. Accordingly, ICCS represents a family of approaches related to
conceptual structures that build on the successes with techniques derived f
rom
artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, applied
mathematics and lattice theory, computational linguistics, conceptual model
ing
and design, diagrammatic reasoning and logic, intelligent systems and knowl
edge
management. The activity of the field is witnessed by two recently publishe
d
books ("Conceptual Structures in Practice", ed. by Hitzler and Schrfe an
d
"Graph-based Knowledge Representation: Computational Foundations of Concept
ual
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
* the interplay of conceptual structures with language, semantics, semiotic
s
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 discove
ry
* theory and applications of formal ontologies
* graph-based knowledge representation and reasoning
Authors are invited to submit papers describing both theoretical and practi
cal
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.
== Invited Speakers ==
Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc., USA
Marie-Laure Mugnier, LIRMM, France
John Sowa, VivoMind Intelligence Inc., USA
Rudi Studer, Universitt Karlsruhe, Germany
Rudolf Wille, TU Darmstadt, Germany
== 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.springer.de/comp/lncs. Position papers (up to 4 pages) are also
welcome.
Deadlines
* Monday January 5, 2009: a one page abstract submitted via the submission
site
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs2009
(Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of t
he
work to be described in the final paper.)
* Monday January 12, 2009: full paper (not more than 14 pages) in PDF forma
t
submitted via the submission site
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs2009
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 fo
r
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
_________________________________________________
Dr. Sebastian Rudolph
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe
rudolph@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de phone +49 (0)721 608 7362
www.sebastian-rudolph.de fax +49 (0)721 608 5998