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ICCS'09 CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES: LEVERAGING SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES
26-31 июля 2009 г.
Москва
Государственный Университет Высшая Школа Экономики (ГУ-ВШЭ)
http://iccs09.hse.ru
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ICCS'09 CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES: LEVERAGING SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES
26 - 31 July 2009
Moscow, Russia
State University Higher School of Economics (SU HSE)
http://iccs09.hse.ru
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 Schärfe 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:
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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.springer.de/comp/lncs. Position papers (up
to 4 pages) are also welcome.
DEADLINES
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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/lncs). A precondition
for publication is that the final version is in full compliance with Springer's format.
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
General Chair :
Sergei Kuznetsov (SU Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)
Program Chairs:
Frithjof Dau (SAP Research CEC Dresden, Germany)
Sebastian Rudolph (Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany)