ICCS'09: first cfp

[Dau, Frithjof]

ICCS'09 Conceptual Structures: Leveraging Semantic Technologies
26 - 31 July 2009, State University Higher School of Economics (SU HSE), Moscow, Russia
http://www.iccs.info


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:

* 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
* 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  (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) 
  skuznetsov at yandex.ru

Program Chairs
* Frithjof Dau (SAP Research CEC Dresden, Germany) 
  frithjof.dau at sap.com 
* Sebastian Rudolph (Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany) 
  rudolph at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

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Dr. Frithjof Dau
Researcher
SAP Research CEC Dresden
SAP AG
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mailto:frithjof.dau at sap.com
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