International Workshop on Modeling States, Events, Processes and Scenarios (mseps 2013)

[Dmitry Ignatov]

MSEPS 2013 – Call for Papers
Workshop for
20th International Conference on Conceptual Structures
January 10-12, Mumbai, India
http://iccs2013.hbcse.tifr.res.in/workshops/mseps-workshop

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
MODELING STATES, EVENTS, PROCESSES AND SCENARIOS (MSEPS 2013)

Traditional knowledge representation tools operate over objects with
heavy consideration on either classes or instances. This has proven to
be efficient for a wide range of tasks utilizing the descriptions of
the domain, in which, their properties and relations are considered
fixed – e.g., production units of a factory or biological species.
Nevertheless, there are tasks in natural-scientific and technical
domains that direct analysis not so much at the relations between the
objects but the relationships between combined objects using forms of
statements. These statements are believed to express events or states
of objects, relations between them, individual processes, and chains
of such processes, scenarios of evolution of a domain. Knowledge
expressed in this way has been defined as dynamic knowledge, and
dynamic knowledge engineering therefore should be considered as an
emerging counterpart to the traditional “static” one. However, while
the semantics of object-based methods is well defined, that of
event-based ones remains quite loose and formality of the approaches
ranges from perfect to naught. Moreover, methods that describe events,
processes and scenarios have been scattered in many disciplines, from
computer science to geology, and their discovery in various areas of
science and practice is an important task itself. We welcome
contributions on all event-based methods of knowledge representation
regardless of area of application and type of method – be it Petri
nets, event trees, event bushes, influence diagrams, sequence
diagrams, implicational networks, flowcharts, activity diagrams, and
any other method provided it is demonstrated to depict events,
processes or scenarios. Moreover, authors who have no experience in
representation of knowledge but consider that their domain may provide
tasks and needed applications for these methods, are also highly
welcome. Based on these “customer” contributions, we would like to
investigate some test areas, in which dynamic engineering armory will
be sharpened up. So far, the geosciences have become one such area,
and therefore we particularly welcome contributions, however,
informal, from open-minded geologists, geophysicists and geographers.
Similarly, chemists, biologists and particularly systems biologists
have been modelling the various dynamic phenomena, such as chemical
reactions, biochemical pathways and dynamic systems respectively. We
welcome contributions in these areas as well.

Topics

Main topics include, but are not limited to:
• Conceptual Structures for Modeling States, Events, Processes and Scenarios
• Promising areas and tasks for MSEPS (Geology, Chemistry, Biology, etc.)
• Logical tools for Processes Modeling (Description and Modal Logics, etc.)
• Dynamic knowledge engineering and process modelling
• Visual notations for knowledge representation
• Graph languages and graph semantics
• Semantic science applications
• Event-driven reasoning
• Ontological modeling
• Process mining

Submissions. We invite scientific publications on methodological
aspects of dynamic knowledge engineering, particular methods and tasks
proposing possible solutions. Papers of up to 12 pages may be
submitted in Springer LNCS format. The submission is to be done via
the conference EasyChair account at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mseps2013.
Authors are requested to follow the formatting instructions for the
Springer LNCS style, see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop;
therefore at least one author per paper has to register timely. All
submissions will be refereed, and the workshop proceedings will be
published by Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR) Mumbai
and also will be available online in CEUR-ws series.
The most valuable contributions relating the field of geosciences, in
addition, may be recommended for publication in special issue of
Computers and Geosciences on knowledge engineering in geology and
geography recently suggested for publication by Elsevier.

Important Dates

Submission of papers: December 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance: December 7, 2012
Camera-ready due: December 14, 2012
The Workshop: January 12, 2013

Venue

The workshop will be hosted by Homi Bhabha Centre for Science
Education (TIFR) Mumbai, India, January 10-12, 2013 in conjunction
with the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS
2013) and in parallel with the Fifth International Conference to
review research on Science, Technology and Mathematics Education.

Workshop chairs
• Cyril Pshenichny, cpshe...@yandex.ru, National Research
University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics,
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
• Dmitry Mouromtsev, d.mur...@gmail.com, National Research
University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics,
Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Program committee (to be extended)
• Yuri Zagorulko, Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems (IIS),
Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
• Tatiana Gavrilova, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
• Paolo Diviacco, Istituto di Oceanografia i Geofisica Sperimentale, Italy
• Nagarjuna G., Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR, Mumbai, India
• Michael Piasecki, The City College of New York, USA
• Jonas Poelmans, Kathoelike Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• Heather D. Pfeiffer, Akamai Physics, Inc., USA
• Dmitry Ignatov, National Research University Higher School of
Economics, Moscow, Russia