- From: Manuel Möller <manuel.moeller@dfki.de>
- Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:54:48 +0100
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********************************************************************* We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Workshop on Philosophy an Informatics (WSPI2008) http://wspi2008.workshop.hm Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 1./2., 2008 Paper Submission deadline: December 15, 2007 ********************************************************************* GOALS AND AIMS The workshops are designed to encourage interdisciplinary exchange on the philosophical foundations of informatics. They seek to bring together researchers from philosophy, informatics and neighbouring disciplines in order to explore common points of interest and to intensify the exchange between the disciplines and a common vocabulary. The workshop also serves as the annual meeting platform of the members of the Special Interest Group on Philosophy and Informatics. The 2008 Workshop has a special focus on the area of conceptualization and representation in both computer science and philosophy. INTENDED AUDIENCE Philosophers and informaticians/computer scientists or representatives of related disciplines with an interest in the cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas. WORKSHOP LANGUAGE The workshop will be held in English. TOPICS WSPI 2008 focuses on conceptualizations, but contributions on philosophy and informatics in general are also invited. The main topics are: * Philosophical ontology in informatics o Ontology, terminology, and taxonomy o Recent trends in ontology engineering o Rormal Representations for Concepts * Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence o Application of Formal Representations o Reasoning in Semantic Technologies o Cognition as Inference and Induction * Logical Approaches to Formal Representations o Philosophical contributions o Epistemology in informatics and bioinformatics * Philosophically motivated reflections on representation formalisms in informatics * Limitations in formal representations * Common Grounds between Informatics and Philosophy IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: December 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2008 Camera-ready versions: February 20, 2008 Workshop: April 1 - 2, 2008 WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS All accepted papers will be published as a DFKI technical report (with ISSN) as well as electronically at http://CEUR-WS.org (past workshops: http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-130/, http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-112/). REVIEW PROCESS All submissions will be subject to review by the WSPI Program Committee. The workshop chairs and the organizing committee have final authority over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Review criteria include originality of ideas, technical soundness, significance of results, and quality of presentation. The intention is to have three reviews per submission. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the corresponding authors. SUBMISSIONS AND STYLE Workshop submission will be electronic, in pdf format only. A submission system will be available at the workshop website in due time. Submitted papers must not exceed 12 pages and should conform to Springer LNCS style (see below). Papers must be written in English. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the contribution in order to be published in the workshop proceedings. Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX and the Springer llncs class files available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. While the pages in the final camera-ready form of a paper must be unnumbered (this is the default in llncs style), numbered pages are preferred for reviewing. Page numbering can be turned on using the LaTeX command \pagestyle{plain}. Do not hesitate to contact the workshop chairs for further questions: wspi2008@dfki.uni-kl.de. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For questions regarding workshop schedule, accomodation and travel information and registration please refer to the workshop website located at http://wspi2008.workshop.hm. ORGANIZING INSTITUTIONS The Fifth International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics (WSPI 2008) is organized by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH (http://www.dfki.de), the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kaiserslautern (http://www.uni-kl.de/philosophie/), and the Special Interest Group on Philosophy and Informatics (http://philosophyandinformatics.org) of the German Informatics Society. ORGANISATION COMMITTEE Manuel Möller, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany (Contact Person) http://www.manuelm.org, manuel.moeller@dfki.de Wolfgang Neuser, Department of Philosophy, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany http://www.uni-kl.de/philosophie/, neuser@rhrk.uni-kl.de Thomas Roth-Berghofer, University of Kaiserslautern / DFKI GmbH, Germany http://thomas.roth-berghofer.de, thomas.roth-berghofer@dfki.de PROGRAM COMMITEE MEMBERS Stephen K. Probert, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom Marcus Spies, University of Munich, Germany Denny Vrandecic, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Heinz Müller, University of Cooperative Education, Mannheim, Germany Klaus Wiegerling, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Stephan Baumann, Competence Center Computational Culture, DFKI, Germany Paul Buitelaar, Competence Center Semantic Web, DFKI, Germany Werner Ceusters, European Centre for Ontological Research, Germany Luciano Floridi, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Norbert Jastroch, MET Communications GmbH, Bad Homburg, Germany Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France Francis Rousseaux, IRCAM, Paris, France Stefan Schulz, SCE, Carleton University, Canada Barry Smith, IFOMIS, Saarbrücken, Germany Boris Wyssusek, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Wolfgang Lenski, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Gerhard Heyer, University of Leipzig, Germany Dieter Münch, TU-Berlin, Germany Bertin Klein, DFKI, Germany John D. Haynes, School of Information Technology, Charles Darwin University, Australia -- Manuel Möller -- DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern http://www.manuelm.org -- manuel.moeller@dfki.de phone: +49 631 20575-132 -- fax: +49 631 20575-103 Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics: http://wspi2008.workshop.hm/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender) Dr. Walter Olthoff Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313 -------------------------------------------------------------
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