CIGAR 2014 - Workshop on Concept Invention, Generation, Adaptation, and Representation

Concepts, their acquisition representation, generation, and adaptation stand in the focus of research in several different areas spanning a very diverse range of fields and disciplines: From artificial intelligence and computational creativity, through cognitive science, psychology and the learning sciences/pedagogics, to theoretical and formal philosophy.
In this workshop we want to shed light on several different key aspects of a concept's life cycle:
Ontological status and corresponding mode of existence
Formal ontologists' understanding of concepts: Psychological entities, aspects of reality, categories posited by on antology,...
Concept representation: Suitable KR paradigms/formalisms in a computational context, "natural" concept representation the mind or brain from a psychological/neuroscientific point of view,...
Concept generation: Automatic creation of concept descriptions in a computational context, concept acquisition in a psychological context/the learning sciences,...
Concept invention, semantic content generation, concept formation, concept combination,...
Concept adaptation to altered environments/contexts, effects of context changes for concepts, relationship between concept and context,...
Due to the mutually interlinked nature of the different questions, we are convinced that an interdisciplinary approach (including all different perspectives represented within the FOIS community) to answering them will provide a meaningful basis for valuable discussions addressing both the individual issues as well as the deeply rooted connections between them.