[DL] ICCS 2014 - Call for Papers

[Robert Jäschke]

                     ICCS 2014 - Call for Papers

        21st International Conference on Conceptual Structures
            -- Graph-based Representation and Reasoning --

                   27 - 30 July 2014, Iasi, Romania
                    http://iccs2014.info.uaic.ro/

# Scope and Significance

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 Iasi, Romania at the Al. I. Cuza University,
the oldest higher education institution in Romania. The university was
founded  one  year  after  the  establishment of  the  Romanian  state
in  1860.  Iasi 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
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and not
exceed  the page limit.  The submission  is to  be done  via EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs20141).           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, Iasi,
Romania.
Further information is available at http://iccs2014.info.uaic.ro/.


# Organisation

- General Chair: Madalina Croitoru, University of Montpellier 2, France
  http://www.lirmm.fr/~croitoru/
- Program Chairs:
  - Nathalie Hernandez, University of Toulouse, France
    http://www.irit.fr/~Nathalie.Hernandez/
  - Robert Jäschke, University of Hannover, Germany
    http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~jaeschke/
- Local Chair: Cornelius Croitoru, Al. I. Cuza University, Iasi, Romania
  http://profs.info.uaic.ro/~croitoru/
- Local Co-Chair: Lenuta Alboaie, Al. I. Cuza University, Romania
  http://www.uaic.ro/uaic/bin/view/Main/WebHome


# ICCS Steering Committee

- Madalina Croitoru, University of Montpellier 2, France
  http://www.lirmm.fr/~croitoru/
- Frithjof Dau, SAP Research Dresden, Germany http://dr-dau.net/
- Ollivier Haemmerlé, University of Toulouse, France
  http://www.irit.fr/~Ollivier.Haemmerle/
- Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
  http://www.upriss.org.uk/
- Sebastian Rudolph, Technical University Dresden, Germany
  http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/?node_id=3383


# Program Committee

- Simon Andrews, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
- Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Peggy Cellier, IRISA, Rennes, France
- Dan Corbett, Optimodal Technologies, Washington DC, USA
- Cornelius Croitoru, University Al. I. Cuza, Iasi, Romania
- Juliette Dibie-Barthelemy, INRA-Met at risk, Paris, France
- Pavlin Dobrev, ProSyst Labs EOOD, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Florent Domenach, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
- Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, LIG, France
- Catherine Faron Zucker, Université de Nice, France
- Jerome Fortin, LIRMM, Montpellier, France
- Cynthia-Vera Glodeanu, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- Ollivier Haemmerlé, IRIT, Toulouse, France
- Siegfried Handschuh, DERI Galway, Ireland
- Jan Hladik, SAP Research Dresden, Germany
- Rinke Hoekstra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- John Howse, University of Brighton, UK
- Adil Kabbaj, INSEA, Rabat, Morocco
- Hamamache Kheddouci, LIRIS, Lyon, France
- Leonard Kwuida, Université du Quebec Outaouais, Canada
- Jérôme Lang, Lamsade, Paris Dauphine, France
- Dickson Lukose, MIMOS BHD, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Pierre Marquis, CRIL-CNRS, Lens, France
- Philippe Martin, Université de La Réunion, Saint Denis, Réunion
- Tomasz Michalak, University of Oxford, UK
- Bernard Moulin, Université de Laval, Quebec, Canada
- Sergei Obiedkov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
- Yoshiaki Okubo, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Nir Oren, University of Aberdeen, UK
- Nathalie Pernelle, LRI, Paris, France
- Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
- Marie-Christine Rousset, IMAG, Grenoble, France
- Sebastian Rudolph, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- Fatiha Sais, LRI, Paris, France
- Eric Salvat, IMERIR, Perpignan, France
- Iain Stalker, University of Manchester, UK
- Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton, UK
- Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Annette ten Teije, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Michael Thomazo, LIRMM, Montpellier, France
- Francisco Valverde-Albacete, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain
- Srdjan Vesic, CRIL, Lens, France
- Martin Watmough, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
- Karl Erich Wolff, Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany
- Stefan Woltran, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
- Pierre-Henri Wuillemin, LIP6, Paris, France
- Gq Zhang, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

(to be extended)

-- 
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Robert Jäschke
L3S Research Center/Leibniz University Hannover
http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~jaeschke/
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