[Sigkm-l] CFP ICCS2013

[Heather D. Pfeiffer]

CALL FOR PAPERS

ICCS'13: Conceptual Structures for Knowledge Representation for STEM 
Research and Education 10th - 12th January, Mumbai, India
(www.iccs.info)


The 20th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2013)
is the latest in a series of annual conferences that have been held in
Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America since 1993.  The focus of
these conferences has been the representation and analysis of
conceptual knowledge for research and business applications. ICCS
brings together researchers in information technology, arts,
humanities and social science to explore novel ways that can
conceptual structures can be employed in information systems.

Arising originally out of the work of IBM in Conceptual Graphs, over
the years ICCS has broadened its scope to include a wider range of
theories and practices, among them Formal Concept Analysis,
Description Logics, the Semantic Web, the Pragmatic Web, Ontologies,
Multi-agent Systems, Concept Mapping, and more. Accordingly conceptual
structures represent a family of approaches that builds on the
successes of artificial intelligence, business intelligence,
computational linguistics, conceptual modeling, information and web
technologies, user modeling, and knowledge management.

ICCS 2013's theme is "Conceptual Structures for Knowledge
Representation for STEM Research and Education".  Science, technology,
engineering and mathematics (STEM) have, in recent decades, emerged as
lively new research areas. More and more data is being captured in
these areas (particularly through the Web) and how to represent this
data for useful research, searching and education is a real
challenge. This data now represents our business, economic, arts,
social, and scientific endeavors to such an extent that we require
smart applications that can discover the hitherto hidden knowledge and
how to represent that this mass of data. By bringing together the way
computers work with the way humans think, conceptual structures align
the productivity of computer processing with the ingenuity of
individuals and organizations in addressing this highly mathematical
data. The representation of this data can be used for both research
area and for collecting data for improved teaching techniques in these
areas.

Papers for ICCS 2013 are invited but are not limited to the following 
topics:

* conceptual structures (theory, applications, and experience with case 
  studies) for STEM data;
* STEM data interplay with human or organizational experience and 
  language, semantics and pragmatics;
* concept analysis and contextual logic within STEM data;
* capturing concepts through smart data and information processing;
* modeling, representation, and visualization of concepts;
* conceptual knowledge acquisition of STEM data; and
* the theory and applications of formal ontologies for STEM data.

Comparisons of methods and representations on the basis of reasoning
ability, expressiveness, ease of use, and computational performance
are welcome. Integration of methodologies, user interfaces, semantic
web technologies, business intelligence, multi-agent systems,
knowledge use, reuse, and integration, and business productivity tools
are all of high interest.

Authors are invited to submit papers describing both theoretical and
practical research. 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

Long papers are limited to 14 pages in Springer LNAI format. Short
papers are limited to 6 pages in Springer LNAI format. We recommend
the use of LaTeX2e for the final version.  Visit
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs for more details. Papers can be
submitted through the Easychair submission system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs2013

Deadlines

* August 1, 2012:   a one page abstract submitted via conference 
                    website. NB: Abstracts should clearly 
                    state the purpose, results and conclusions of
		    the work to be described in the final paper.
* August 14, 2012:  full paper in PDF format submitted via the 
                    conference website.
* October 1, 2012:  notification of acceptance of papers.
* October 15, 2012: camera ready copies.

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), and the best papers will appear
in a special issue of the IJCSSA journal after the conference. A
precondition for publication is that the final version is in full
compliance with Springer's format.

For the conference there will be a PhD paper competition. To enter the
PhD competition, the first author on the paper must be a current PhD
student and not directly connected with the conference (program
committee, EB, etc.).  To be selected as the best PhD paper, the PhD
student must come present the paper at the conference.  The winning
student will get free registration and a cash price.


Conference Chairs

General Chair:
G. Nagarjuna
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
nagarjun at gnowledge.org

Program Chairs:
Jonas Poelmans
Faculty of Business and Economics, KULeuven, Belgium
jonas.poelmans at econ.kuleuven.be

Heather D. Pfeiffer
Research Faculty, New Mexico State University, USA
hdp at cs.nmsu.edu

Workshop chair:
Dmitrii I. Ignatov
Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
dmitrii.ignatov at gmail.com