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Subject: Call For Papers - ICCS2004 Date: Saturday 13 December 2003 18:03 From: "Heather D. Pfeiffer" hdp@cs.nmsu.edu To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org Cc: hdp@maverick.cs.nmsu.edu
HI. This is the call for papers for ICCS2004. Please feel free to forward it to any and all people that you think would be interested :-)
-Heather, Karl Erich and Harry
CALL FOR PAPERS
ICCS 2004
12th International Conference on Conceptual Structures: Conceptual Structures at Work
July 19 - 23, 2004, Huntsville, Alabama http://concept.cs.uah.edu/
* Aims and Scope
The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) has been held annually in Europe, Australia, and North America since 1993. The central focus is the formal representation and analysis of conceptual knowledge with research and business applications focusing on artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and related areas of computer science.
Historically, a group of researchers working on the theory and applications of Conceptual Graphs founded the ICCS. Over the years, they have broadened the scope to include a wider range of theories, among them Formal Concept Analysis, Description Logics, Situation Theory, Discourse Representation Theory, and related techniques.
Papers for ICCS 2004 are invited on the following topics: conceptual structures (theory, applications, and experience with case studies); their interplay with language, semantics and pragmatics; formal methods for concept analysis and contextual logic, modeling, 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, knowledge use, reuse, and integration, and business product tools descriptions are all of high interest at ICCS 2004. Papers on the ICCS 2004 theme of "Conceptual Structures at Work" are particularly encouraged. The conference will focus on applications of conceptual structures in knowledge processing in practice oriented fields, mainly in all kinds of industrial applications, with special emphasize on practically successful conceptual formalizations.
Of special interest is the question to which extent formal representations of conceptual structures can support human communication and knowledge creation. Papers which discuss such research or applications in the area of bringing together Formal Concept Analysis and Contextual Logic, Conceptual Graphs, formal ontologies within the Semantic Web or other areas are strongly encouraged, as well as papers linking conceptual structures to other fields or applications.
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.
* Authors' Information
Papers are limited to 14 pages in Springer's format. We strongly recommend the use of LaTeX2e for the final version. For more details see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Position papers (2 pages) are also welcome.
For all papers, a one page abstract in PostScript or PDF format must be received by Monday December 29, 2003. Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper.
The electronic submission of the full paper in Postscript or PDF format must be received on or before Friday, January 9, 2004. Submit your abstract and your paper via email to Heather D. Pfeiffer (hdp@cs.nmsu.edu) with ICCS2004 in the subject line. Please include your name and your full address. In case you have problems with electronic submission, contact Harry Delugach as early as possible. An address is given below.
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. Position papers and papers which are not included in the LNAI volume , but are of sufficient quality and interest to the community, will be published in supplementary proceedings. A precondition for publication (for all papers) is that the final version is in full compliance with Springer's format.
* Call for Workshop Proposals
Workshop proposals for ICCS 2004 are invited on any of the areas of interest to the Conceptual Structures community, including specialized sub-areas. Previous workshops have included CG tools, PORT Pragmatic Web and Concept lattice-based Knowledge Discovery. The deadline for submission of workshop proposals to the Program Chair Heather Pfeiffer, hdp@cs.nmsu.edu, is February 1, 2004.
* Conference Chairs and Editorial Board
General Chair: Harry Delugach (University of Alabama Huntsville, USA) Program Chairs: Heather D. Pfeiffer (New Mexico State University, USA), Karl Erich Wolff (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Editorial Board: Galia Angelova (Bulgaria) Michel Chein (France) Dan Corbett (Australia) Aldo de Moor (Netherlands) Peter Eklund (Australia) Bernhard Ganter (Germany) Mary Keeler (USA) Sergei Kuznetsov (Russia) Lotfi Lakhal (France) Wilfried Lex (Germany) Guy Mineau (Canada) Bernard Moulin (Canada) Marie-Laure Mugnier (France) Uta Priss (UK) John Sowa (USA) Gerd Stumme (Germany) Bill Tepfenhart (USA) Rudolf Wille (Germany)
* Further Information
This call for papers and the latest information regarding the conference can be found on the World Wide Web at: http://concept.cs.uah.edu/%3E
Harry Delugach, PhD. Computer Science Department Technology Hall N-351 University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, AL 35899 U.S.A.
delugach@cs.uah.edu Phone: 1-256-824-6614 Fax: 1-256-824-6239
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