First Workshop
COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF ONTOLOGY DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT (CODE)
within
SECOND BI-ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE
June 9–13, 2006, St. Petersburg
Call for Papers
The Russian Association for Cognitive Studies and Russian Association for Artificial Intelligence
invite submissions for the First Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Ontology Design and Development
(CODE ) to be held on June13, 2006, in St. Petersburg.
Categorization, classification, ontologies are key components of any information analysis process
or other intelligent mental activity. CODE is the first of what we hope will be many workshops that bring
together researchers and practitioners in areas such as philosophical ontology, cognitive science,
information structuring, intelligent systems development, e-learning to discuss the role of ontological
engineering for foundational and lightweight ontologies in different applications.
This workshop focuses on issues related to the cognitive aspects of ontology design, development
and application. Workshop approaches these problems from a different perspective, among which
Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Educational and Tutoring systems, Webbased Educational systems. Appropriate topics, defined for each of them, can be approached from
different perspectives: theoretical, systems engineering, application, case study and system evaluation,
etc. The Workshop encourages submissions on topics including (but not limited to) the following:
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Categorization of Vocabularies
Ontological Engineering
Objects definitions and semantic relations
Laddering procedures and ontology design
Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling
Vocabularies and Foundational Ontologies for applications (knowledge management, elearnig, KBS)
The workshop focuses on the issues of ontological engineering. The goal of the workshop is
twofold:
- To discuss the current state-of-the-art of the methodology and technologies of ontological
engineering.
- To attract the interest of the related research communities to the problems ontology design and
development and to create platform for knowledge exchange and cooperation between
researchers.
SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: November 15, 2005
ADDRESS FOR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS:
cogsci06@cs.msu.su
There are two categories for submission:
PAPERS (20- or 30-minute spoken presentations) and POSTERS.
Novel research papers are invited on any topic related to cognition. Submitted abstracts should be
in Russian or English and no longer than 2 pages (single-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 type size),
including illustrations and references. They will be evaluated through peer review with respect to several
criteria, including originality, quality, and significance of research, relevance to a broad audience of
cognitive science researchers, and clarity of presentation. One author cannot participate in more than two
submitted papers (only once as a first author).
Papers accepted for oral presentation will be presented at the conference as scheduled talks. Papers
accepted for poster presentation will be presented at a poster session at the conference. All papers may
present results from completed but original unpublished research as well as report on current research
with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives.
FORMAT: MS Word file attached to an e-mail message. At the beginning of an abstract please
indicate the following information:
- the title of the paper
- the author(s) information, including:
o full name
o affiliation
o degree or educational status (undergraduate student, graduate student, Ph.D., etc.)
o postal address
o phone number
o e-mail address
- 5 to 7 keywords
Ensuring that each submission received solid reviews takes considerable time, and the Program
Committee will inform the authors of its decisions on the acceptance by February 15, 2006. Abstracts of
the papers accepted for publication will be published by the beginning of the conference. Authors of toprated conference papers will be invited to prepare expanded versions of their papers for publication in a
special volume.
Workshop chair:
Prof. Tatiana Gavrilova (Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University), tgavrilova@gmail.com