ICCS 2014 - 21st International Conference on Conceptual Structures

The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) focus on the formal analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge with applications to artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and related areas of computer 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. The aim of the ICCS 2014 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.
ICCS 2014 will be held in Iaşi, România at the Al. I. Cuza University, the oldest higher education institution in România. The university was founded one year after the establishment of the Romanian state in 1860. Iaşi has a long tradition in higher education and has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Romanian social, cultural, academic and artistic life.
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, Argumentation, Graph Databases, 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 with respect to other possible solutions.
The conference also welcomes papers on the following topics: Knowledge Management, Knowledge Architectures, Reasoning under Inconsistency, Knowledge Representation and Uncertainty, Contextual Logic, Metaphoric, Cultural or Semiotic Considerations, Ontologies, Semantic Web, Web of Data, Web 2.0, Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition, Data Mining, Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Constraint Satisfaction, Decision Making, Resource Allocation and Agreement Technologies.
Submission and Publication
We invite scientific publications of up to fourteen pages. For each paper, an abstract must be submitted by March 2nd, 2014. Papers must be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS style guidelines and not exceed the page limit. The submission is to be done via EasyChair. All submissions will be refereed, and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series - both online and printed. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper there.
Important dates
Abstract Submission: March 2nd, 2014
Paper Submission: March 9th, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: April 14th, 2014
Camera Ready Paper: April 30th, 2014
ICCS 2014 Conference Date: 27 - 30 July, 2014
The conference will be hosted by the Al. I. Cuza University, Iaşi, România. Further information is available here .
Organisation
General Chair: Madalina Croitoru, University Montpellier 2, France
Program Chair, Nathalie Hernandez, IRIT, France
Program Chair: Robert Jäschke, University of Hannover
Local Chair: Cornelius Croitoru, University Al. I. Cuza, România