1st CALL FOR PAPERS ICCS 2005 13th International Conference on Conceptual Structures: Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge July 18 - 22, 2005, Kassel, Germany * Important Dates Abstract Submission Deadline: January 10, 2005 Paper Submission Deadline: January 17, 2005 Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: February 7, 2005 Paper author notifications: March 3, 2005 Camera-Ready Copy Deadline: April 18, 2005 * Aims and Scope The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) has been= held annually in Europe, Australia, and North America since 1993. The central focus is the formal representation and analysis of conceptual knowledge with research and business applications focusing on artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and related areas of computer science. Historically, a group of researchers working on the theory and applications of Conceptual Graphs founded the ICCS. Over the years, they have broadened the scope to include a wider range of theories, among them Formal Concept Analysis, Description Logics, Semantic Web, Ontologies, and related techniques. Papers for ICCS 2005 are invited on the following topics: conceptual structures (theory, applications, and experience with case studies); their interplay with language, semantics and pragmatics; formal methods for concept analysis and contextual logic, modeling, representation, and visualization of concepts; conceptual knowledge acquisition; and the theory and applications of formal ontologies. 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, knowledge use, reuse, and integration, and business product tools descriptions are all of high interest. The conference will focus on the use of conceptual structures in formalizing and processing semantical content of ontologies, in particular in relation with the semantic web technologies. Papers on the ICCS 2005 theme of "Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge" are particularly encouraged. Of special interest is the question to which extent formal representations of conceptual structures can support human communication and knowledge creation. Papers which discuss such research or applications in the area of bringing together Formal Concept Analysis and Contextual Logic, Conceptual Graphs, formal ontologies within the Semantic Web or other areas are strongly encouraged, as well as papers linking conceptual structures to other fields or applications. 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. * Authors' Information Papers are limited to 14 pages in Springer's format. We strongly recommend the use of LaTeX2e for the final version. For more details see . Position papers (2 pages) are also welcome. For all papers, a one page abstract in PostScript or PDF format must be received by Monday January 10, 2005. Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. The electronic submission of the full paper in Postscript or PDF format must be received on or before Monday January 17, 2005. Submit your abstract and your paper via email to the program chairs at= with ICCS2005 in the subject line. Please include your name and your full address. In case you have= problems with electronic submission, contact Gerd Stumme as early as possible. An address is given below. 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 ). Position papers and papers which are not included in the LNAI volume, but are of sufficient quality and interest to the community, will be published in supplementary proceedings. A precondition for publication (for all papers) is that the final version is in full compliance with Springer's format. * Call for Workshop Proposals Workshop proposals for ICCS 2005 are invited on any of the areas of interest to the Conceptual Structures community, including specialized= sub-areas. Previous workshops have included CG tools, PORT Pragmatic Web and Concept lattice-based Knowledge Discovery. The deadline for submission of workshop proposals to the program chairs at is February 7, 2005. * Conference Chairs and Editorial Board General Chair: Gerd Stumme (University of Kassel, Germany) Program Chairs: Frithjof Dau (Darmstadt Technical University, Germany) Marie-Laure Mugnier (LIRMM, France) Editorial Board: Galia Angelova (Bulgaria) Michel Chein (France) Aldo de Moor (Netherlands) Harry Delugach (USA) Peter Eklund (Australia) Bernhard Ganter (Germany) Mary Keeler (USA) Sergei Kuznetsov (Russia) Wilfried Lex (Germany) Guy Mineau (Canada) Bernard Moulin (Canada) Heather D. Pfeiffer (USA) Uta Priss (UK) John Sowa (USA) Rudolf Wille (Germany) Karl-Erich Wolff (Germany) * Further Information This call for papers and the latest information regarding the conference can be found on the World Wide Web at: -- Gerd Stumme Chair of Knowledge & Data Engineering Department of Mathematics & Computer Science University of Kassel Germany Tel. ++49 561/804-6251 Fax ++49 561/804-6259 http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de