CFP: ICCS 2003: Final Call for Papers
Aldo de Moor
ICCS 2003
11th International Conference on Conceptual Structures:
Conceptual Structures for Knowledge Creation and Communication
July 21 - 25, 2003, Dresden, Germany
http://www.math.tu-dresden.de/~iccs/
* Aims and Scope
The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) have been
held annually in Europe, Australia, and North America since 1993. Their
central focus is the formal representation and analysis of conceptual
knowledge with applications to 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 2003 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 are
all of high interest at ICCS 2003.
Papers on the ICCS 2003 theme of "Knowledge Creation and Communication"
are particularly encouraged. ICCS 2003 will focus on the interplay between
meaning and formalization of conceptual structures, and on the relation
between data, information, and knowledge. 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 Tuesday *January 7, 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 Thursday, *January 9, 2003*. See
the conference website for further details.
(http://www.math.tu-dresden.de/~iccs/)
Submit your abstract and your paper via email to Aldo de Moor
(ade...@uvt.nl) with ICCS2003 in the subject line. Please include your
name and your full address. In case you have problems with electronic
submission, contact Bernhard Ganter 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 2003 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 Chairs is *February 1, 2003*
* Important dates (revised!)
- Abstract submission : Tuesday January 7, 2003
- Paper submission : Thursday January 9, 2003
- Notification to authors : Saturday March 1, 2003
- Final paper submission : Tuesday April 15, 2003
* Conference Chairs
General Chair: Bernhard Ganter (TU Dresden, Germany)
Program Chairs: Aldo de Moor (Tilburg University, The Netherlands),
Wilfried Lex (TU Clausthal, Germany)
* Editorial Board:
Galia Angelova (Bulgaria)
Michel Chein (France)
Dan Corbett (Australia)
Harry Delugach (USA)
Peter Eklund (Australia)
Mary Keeler (USA)
Sergei Kuznetsov (Russia)
Lotfi Lakhal (France)
Guy Mineau (Canada)
Bernard Moulin (Canada)
Marie-Laure Mugnier (France)
Heather Pfeiffer (USA)
Uta Priss (UK)
John Sowa (USA)
Gerd Stumme (Germany)
Bill Tepfenhart (USA)
Rudolf Wille (Germany)
* Program Committee
Jean-Francois Baget (France), David Benn (Australia), Tru Cao (Vietnam),
Claudio Carpineto (Italy), Frithjof Dau (Germany), John Esch (USA), David
Genest (France), Oliver Gerbe (Canada), Robert Godin (Canada), Ollivier
Haemmerle (France), Roger Hartley (USA), Pavel Kocura (UK), Wolfgang
Lenski (Germany), Philippe Martin (Australia), Engelbert Mephu Nguifo
(France), Rokia Missaoui (Canada), Peter Ohrstrom (Denmark), Simon
Polovina (UK), Silke Pollandt (Germany), Anne-Marie Rassinoux
(Switzerland), Gary Richmond (USA), Eric Salvat (France), Janos Sarbo
(The Netherlands), Finnegan Southey (Canada), Thanwadee Thanitsukkarn
(Thailand), Petko Valtchev (Canada), Karl Erich Wolff (Germany)
* Further Information
This call for papers and the latest information regarding the conference
can be found on the World Wide Web at:
http://www.math.tu-dresden.de/~iccs/
Bernhard Ganter
Institut fuer Algebra
TU Dresden
D-01062 Dresden
Germany
<gan...@math.tu-dresden.de>
Phone: +49-351-463-35063
Fax: +49-351-463-34235
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