ICCS 2019 Call for papers

[Apologies for multiple postings.]

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Call for Papers: 24th International Conference on Conceptual Structures 
(ICCS 2019)
July 1st - July 4th, 2019, Marburg, Germany.

Website: https://iccs-conference.org
Twitter: @iccs_confs
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/conceptualstructures/
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About ICCS:
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The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) focus on 
the formal analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge, at the 
crossroads of artificial intelligence, human cognition, computational 
linguistics, and related areas of computer science and cognitive 
science. The ICCS conferences evolved from a series of seven annual 
workshops on conceptual graphs, starting with an informal gathering 
hosted by John F. Sowa in 1986. Recently, graph-based knowledge 
representation and reasoning (KRR) paradigms are getting more and more 
attention. With the rise of quasi-autonomous AI, graph-based 
representations provide a vehicle for making machine cognition explicit 
to its human users.  The aim of the ICCS 2019 conference is to build 
upon its long standing expertise in graph-based KRR and focus on 
providing modelling, formal and application results of graph-based systems.
The conference welcomes contributions that address graph-based 
representation and reasoning paradigms (e.g. Bayesian Networks (BNs), 
Semantic Networks (SNs), RDF(S), Conceptual Graphs (CGs), Formal Concept 
Analysis (FCA), CP-Nets, GAI-Nets, Graph Databases, Diagrams, etc.) from 
a modelling, theoretical and application viewpoint:

- Modelling results will investigate concrete real world needs for 
graph-based representation, how certain use cases are of interest to the 
graph community, how using graphs can bring added (business) value, what 
kind of graph representation is needed for a given case, etc.
- Technical results will include fundamental graph theory based results 
for novel structures for representation, extensions of existing 
structures for added expressivity, conciseness, optimisation algorithms 
for reasoning, reasoning explanation, etc.
- Papers reporting on application experience will be expected to 
demonstrate the benefits of the graph-based proposed solutions in the 
context of the use case studied. Where appropriate, the graph-based 
solutions are compared to other possible solutions.

General Chair:

- Dominik Endres, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

Program Chairs:

- Mehwish Alam, ST-Lab, ISTC, CNR, Rome, Italy
- Diana Sotropa, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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The main research topics are:
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- Knowledge Management,
- Knowledge Architectures,
- Reasoning under Inconsistency,
- Knowledge Representation and Uncertainty,
- Contextual Logic,
- Constraint Satisfaction,
- Decision Making,
- Argumentation,
- Ontologies,
- Semantic Web,
- Web of Data,
- Web 2.0,
- Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition,
- Data Mining,
- Text Mining,
- Natural Language Processing,
- Linguistics,
- Metaphoric, Cultural or Semiotic Considerations,
- Resource Allocation and Agreement Technologies.

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Dates
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- Abstract submission deadline: November 30, 2018
- Full paper submission deadline: December 7, 2018
- Poster submission deadline: December 21, 2018 (Posters do not require 
advanced abstract submission)
- Paper Reviews Sent to Authors: January 18, 2019
- Rebuttals Due: January 25, 2019
- Notification to authors: February 1, 2019
- Camera-ready papers due: February 22, 2019


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Submission Information
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We invite scientific papers of up to fourteen pages, short contributions 
up to eight pages and extended poster abstracts of up to three pages.

Papers and posters must be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS style 
guidelines and not exceed the page limit. The submission is to be done 
via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs19 .
All paper submissions will be refereed and authors will have the 
opportunity to respond to reviewers’ comments during the rebuttal phase. 
Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, 
published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series.
Poster submissions will also be refereed but will not be included in the 
conference proceedings.
At least one author of each accepted paper or poster must register for 
the conference and present the paper or poster there.
Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by DBLP.