Call for Participation - ICCS'08 in Toulouse - France

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ICCS'08 – International Conference on Conceptual Structures
Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning
7-11 July, Toulouse, France

Call for Participation
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Information and registration: http://www.iccs.info


PURPOSE
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The 16th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2008)
is the latest in a series of annual conferences on Conceptual Structures
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 in information and computer sciences as well as
social science to explore novel ways that conceptual structures can be
deployed.

Conceptual Structures are motivated by C.S. Peirce's Existential Graphs
and over the years ICCS has broadened scope to include innovations from
a wider range of theories and related practices, among them Formal
Concept Analysis, Existential Graphs, Description Logics, 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, visual
reasoning and logic, intelligent systems and knowledge management.

In 2008 ICCS's theme is Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning with an
emphasis to connect the theory and practice of conceptual structures to
its original visual forms of diagrammatic reasoning.


TOPICS
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* conceptual structures  - theory and applications;
* the interplay of conceptual structures with language, semantics,
semiotics and pragmatics;
* conceptual data processing, analysis and conceptual logic;
* modeling, representation and visualizing conceptual structures;
* conceptual knowledge acquisition;
* knowledge representation with conceptual structures
* automated Reasoning and Conceptual Structures
* applied conceptual structures including data mining and knowledge
discovery
* the theory and applications of formal ontologies.


PROGRAM
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MONDAY, JULY 7
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10h – 17h Workshop CS-TIW Workshop
18 h – ICCS Cheese and wine welcome aperitif

TUESDAY, JULY 8
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8h30 – 9h30 Registration
9h30 – 10h Opening ceremony
10h – 11h Keynote speaker 1
•	Diagrammatic Reasoning Systems, John Howse (UK)
11h – 11h30 Coffee break
11h30 – 12h30 Session 1
•	Employing a Domain Specific Ontology to Perform Semantic Search,
Maxime Morneau and Guy W. Mineau
•	Using Concept Lattices as a Visual Assistance for Attribute Selection,
Jean Villerd, Sylvie Ranwez, Michel Crampes
•	A Framework for Ontology Evaluation, Muhammad Fahad, Muhammad Abdul Qadir
12h30 – 14h Lunch
14h – 15h30 Session 2
•	Fair(er) and (almost) serene committee meetings with Logical and
Formal Concept Analysis, Mireille Ducassé and Sébastien Ferré
•	Concept Similarity and Related Categories in SearchSleuth, Frithjof
Dau, Jon Ducrou and Peter Eklund
•	An FCA classification of durations of time for textual databases,
Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen
•	Operational Specification for FCA using Z, Simon Andrews and Simon
Polovina
15h30 – 16h Coffee break
16h – 17h30 Session 3
•	Conceptual Spider Diagrams, Frithjof Dau and Andrew Fish
•	Flexible querying of fuzzy RDF annotations using fuzzy conceptual
graphs, Patrice Buche, Juliette Dibie-Barthélemy and Gaëlle Hignette
•	Spatial information fusion: Coping with uncertainty in conceptual
structures, Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr, Robert Jeansoulin, Henri Prade
•	Ontology Mapping Using Fuzzy Conceptual Graphs and Rules, Patrice
Buche, Juliette Dibie-Barthlemy, Liliana Ibanescu
18h Civic reception, guided visit of Toulouse

WEDNESDAY, JULY 9
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9h – 10h Keynote speaker 2
•	Web, Graphs and Semantics, Olivier Corby (France)
10h – 10h30 Coffee break
10h30 – 12h Session 4
•	Attribute Exploration Using Implications with Proper Premises, Heiko Reppe
•	Sorting Concepts by Priority Using the Theory of Monotone Systems,
Ants Torim and Karin Lindroos
•	Scenario argument structure vs individual claim defeasibility: what is
more important for validity assessment?, Boris A. Galitsky and Sergei O.
Kuznetsov
•	Incorporating Probabilistic Knowledge in HealthAgents: a Conceptual
Graph Approach, Madalina Croitoru, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, Paul Lewis
•	Modelling a dynamic process in the conceptual graph model: extension
needed?, Jean-Rémi Bourguet, Bernard Cuq, Amadou Ndiaye, Rallou Thomopoulos
12h30 – 14h Lunch
14h _ 19h Social Event
14h visit to Albi (guided visit of Albi, the Toulouse Lautrec museum and
Cathedral of Sainte Cécile)
19h Conference dinner on the Tarn’s bank

THURSDAY, JULY 10
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9h – 10h Keynote speaker 3
•	Marie-Christine Rousset (France)
10h – 10h30 Coffee break
10h30 – 12h Session 5
•	An Algorithmic Study of Deduction in Simple Conceptual Graphs with
Classical Negation, Michel Leclère and Marie-Laure Mugnier
•	Grounded Conceptual Graph Models, Harry S. Delugach and Daniel M.
Rochowiak
•	Conceptual Graphs with Relations and Roles, A GFO Coined View onto CGs
Relations, Alexander Heussner
•	Towards a Conceptual Structure based on Type theory, Richard Dapoigny,
Patrick Barlatier
12h – 14h Lunch & editorial board meeting
14h – 15h30 session 6
•	Extending attribute dependencies for lattice-based querying and
navigation, Nizar Messai, Marie-Dominique Devignes, Amedeo Napoli and
Malika Smaïl-Tabbone
•	PACTOLE: A methodology and a system for semi-automatically enriching
an ontology from a collection of texts, Rokia Bendaoud, Yannick
Toussaint and Amedeo Napoli
•	Semantic Networks to Support Learning, Philippe Martin
•	Semantic Annotation of Texts with RDF Graph Contexts, Hacene Cherfi,
Olivier Corby, Catherine Faron Zucker, Khaled Khelif, Minh-Tuan Nguyen
15h30 – 16h Coffee break
16h00 – 17h30 session 7
•	Query-answering CG Knowledge Bases, Michel Leclère and Nicolas Moreau
•	Contextual cognitive map, Lionel Chauvin, David Genest and Stéphane
Loiseau
•	Finite State Automata and Simple Conceptual Graphs with Binary
Conceptual Relations, Galia Angelova, Stoyan Mihov
•	A Set of Criteria to Evaluate Topic Map Building Approaches, Nebrasse
Ellouze
•	On concept lattices and implication bases from reduced contexts,
Vaclav Snasel, Martin Polovincak, Hussam Dahwa, Zdenek Horak
20h30 Gastronomic dinner

FRIDAY, JULY 11
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9h – 10h Keynote speaker 4
•	Pursuing the Goal of Language Understanding, John Sowa (USA)
10h – 10h30 Coffee break
10h30 – 12h Session 8
•	Revelator’s Complex Adaptive Reasoning Methodology for Resource
Infrastructure Evolution, Mary Keeler and Arun Majumdar
•	Griwes: Generic Model and Preliminary Specifications for a Graph-Based
Knowledge Representation Toolkit, Jean-François Baget (France), Olivier
Corby (France), Rose Dieng-Kuntz (France), Catherine Faron-Zucker
(France), Fabien Gandon (France), Alain Giboin (France), Alain Gutierrez
(France), Michel Leclère (France), Marie-Laure Mugnier (France), Rallou
Thomopoulos (France)
•	Representing a Computer Science Research Organization on the ACM
Computing Classification System, Boris Mirkin, Susana Nascimento, Luis
Moniz Pereira
•	ReCollection: a Disposal/Formal Requirement-Based Tool to Support
Sustainable Collection Making, Francis Rousseaux, Alain Bonardi,
Benjamin Roadley
•	Using Automatically Generated Students’ Clickable Conceptual Models
for e-tutoring, Ismael Pascual-Nieto, Diana Pérez-Marén, Pilar
Rodréguez, Mick O’Donnell
12h15 – 13h45 Lunch
13h45 – 15h30 session 9
•	Transdisciplinarity and Generalistic Sciences and Humanities, Rudolf Wille
•	Jacob Lorhard’s Ontology: a 17th Century Hypertext on the Reality and
Temporality of the World of Intelligibles, Peter Øhrstrøm, Henrik
Schärfe and Sara L. Uckelman
•	Information Fusion using Conceptual Graphs: a TV Programs Case Study,
Claire Laudy, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia
•	An Automated Conceptual Catalogue for the Enterprise, Richard Hill,
Simon Polovina
•	A Contribution of a Multi-Viewpoints Semiotics to Knowledge
Representation Issues, Daniel Galarreta
15h30 – 16h Closing ceremony

Received on Thursday, 12 June 2008 14:34:57 UTC