To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net From: cecilia@umiacs.umd.edu (Cecilia Kullman) Subject: CFP: ICCS'94 SECOND INTL CONFERENCE ON CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES Date: 14 Sep 1993 13:52:55 -0400 ICCS'94 CALL FOR PAPERS SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES August 16th to 20th, 1994 University of Maryland - College Park, MD. Conceptual graphs are a logic-based formalism for knowledge representation based on the existential graphs of Charles S. Pierce and semantic networks. ICCS'94 marks their tenth anniversary. Over the past ten years, they have been widely used as a semantic representation for natural language and as a graphic system of logic for expert systems, theorem provers, and database design. Gains have been made in the storage and retrieval of DBMS information coupled with knowledge-based system problem solving capability. Researchers have developed a software base and continue to build upon it. A workshop devoted to conceptual graphs software will follow the conference, along with a workshop on enterprise modeling. Successful implementations include: rule-based systems, database systems, knowledge-based systems, knowledge engineering tools, enterprise modeling, management information systems, conceptual information retrieval and natural language applications, among others. Conceptual graphs are being proposed as a basis for the normative language for conceptual schemas by the ANSI X3H4 Committee on Information Resource Dictionary Systems. We encourage the submission of position papers in cognitive science regarding conceptualization, the formation of conceptual structures and conceptual modeling using conceptual graphs. ICCS'94 is the forum for discussion which will influence the direction of conceptual graphs development during the second, crucial decade. TOPICS Substantive papers are invited on any aspect of concept analysis, representation, or manipulation involving conceptual graphs. The following topics are of particular interest but others, concerned with conceptual graphs, will be welcome as well. Theory Technical developments Natural language understanding Applications Graph notation AUTHORS' INFORMATION Authors are requested to submit five (5) copies of each paper. Authors are further requested to attach title pages to their submissions bearing their names, addresses, telephone numbers, FAX numbers and e-mail addresses. In addition, authors are asked to include abstracts of approximately twenty (20) lines with each paper, and a list of short phrases descriptive of the content. Each paper may not exceed five thousand (5,000) words. Shorter, substantive papers will be welcome. All papers must be double-spaced. Papers must be received by midnight, Wednesday December 15th, 1993. The Program Chairs will exercise their discretion and reject late papers at will. Address: ICCS'94 UMIACS A.V. Williams Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A. IMPORTANT DATES submission deadline December 15, 1993. notification of acceptance February 18, 1994 camera-ready copy March 25, 1994 PUBLICATION OF PAPERS Accepted papers will appear in the conference "Proceedings" to be published, provisionally, by Springer-Verlag of Berlin. CONFERENCE INFORMATION Honorary Chair: John F. Sowa General Chair: Judith P. Dick Program Committee Co-Chair: Pavel Kocura and William M. Tepfenhart The list of Program Committee members will be forwarded in early September. WORKSHOPS Two workshops will be held in conjunction with the Conference and information concerning those programs will be issued at a later date. PIERCE Workshop Chair Gerard Ellis August 19th-20th. ENTERPRISE MODELING Workshop Chair Alex Bejan August 19th. afternoon. LOCATION ICCS'94 will be held at the Center for Adult Education of the University of Maryland at College Park. The College Park campus is within the boundary of Metropolitan Washington, within the Beltway. Participants are invited to enjoy the advantages of proximity to the nation's capital, The Smithsonian Institution and other items of interest. Baltimore, Annapolis and the Chesapeake Bay are within easy travel distance. Also, our famous Maryland crabs will be in season in August. Article 5250 of news.announce.conferences: Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:5250 Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sparky!rick From: cecilia@umiacs.umd.edu (Cecilia Kullman) Subject: CFP (final): 2nd International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS'94) Message-ID: <1993Dec10.145400.8625@sparky.sterling.com> Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com (Richard Ohnemus) Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1993 14:54:00 GMT Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Expires: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 08:00:00 GMT Lines: 144 X-Md4-Signature: 1f4b0c257bec8339b6621d4213fe8bcc ICCS'94 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES August 16 - 20, 1994 University of Maryland - College Park, MD. Conceptual graphs are a logic-based formalism for knowledge representation based on the existential graphs of Charles S. Peirce and semantic networks. ICCS'94 marks their tenth anniversary. Over the past ten years, they have been widely used as a semantic representation for natural language and as a graphic system of logic for expert systems, theorem provers, and database design. Gains have been made in the storage and retrieval of DBMS information coupled with knowledge-based system problem solving capability. Researchers have developed a software base and continue to build upon it. A workshop devoted to conceptual graphs software will follow the conference, along with a workshop on enterprise modeling. Successful implementations include: rule-based systems, database systems, knowledge-based systems, knowledge engineering tools, enterprise modeling, management information systems, conceptual information retrieval and natural language applications, among others. Conceptual graphs are being proposed as a basis for the normative language for conceptual schemas by the ANSI X3H4 Committee on Information Resource Dictionary Systems. We encourage the submission of position papers in cognitive science regarding conceptualization, the formation of conceptual structures and conceptual modeling using conceptual graphs. ICCS'94 is the forum for discussion which will influence the direction of conceptual graphs development during the second, crucial decade. TOPICS Papers are invited on any aspect concept analysis, representation, or manipulation involving conceptual graphs. Theory Technical developments Natural language understanding Applications Graph notation PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are requested to submit five (5) copies of each paper along with an abstract of approximately 20 lines and a list of short phrases descriptive of the content. Each paper may not exceed 5,000 words and should have a title page which includes names, addresses, telephone numbers, FAX numbers and e-mail addresses. Shorter, substantive papers will be welcome. All papers must be double-spaced. Papers are to be submitted by December 15, 1993 to: ICCS'94 UMIACS A. V. Williams Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline December 15, 1993. Notification of acceptance March 1, 1994 Camera-ready copy April 15, 1994 WORKSHOPS Two workshops will be held in conjunction with the Conference and information concerning those programs will be issued at a later date. PIERCE Workshop Chair Gerard Ellis August 19th-20th. ENTERPRISE MODELING Workshop Chair Alex Bejan August 19th. afternoon. CONFERENCE INFORMATION Honorary Chair: John F. Sowa, State Univ. of New York, sowa@turing.pacs.binghampton.edu General Chair: Judith P. Dick, Univ. of Maryland, dick@eng.umd.edu Program Committee Chairs: Pavel Kocura, Loughborough Univ. of Technology William Tepfenhart, AT&T Bell Laboratories Program Committee: Alex Bejan Barbara Brunson Michael Chein Peter Creasy Veronica Dahl Bonnie Dorr John Eddy Bruno Emond John Esch Jean Fargues Tim Finin Norman Foo Helen Gigley James Hampton John Heaton Jim Hendler Graeme Hirst Fritz Lehman Guy Mineau Bernard Moulin M.L. Mugnier Sung Myaeng Peter Oehrstroem Ghassan Qada Stephen Regoczei Doug Skuce Dagobert Soergel Eileen Way Amy Weinberg M.H. Williams LOCATION ICCS'94 will be held at the Center for Adult Education of the University of Maryland at College Park. The College Park campus is within the boundary of Metropolitan Washington, within the Beltway. Participants are invited to enjoy the advantages of proximity to the nation's capital, The Smithsonian Institution and other items of interest. Baltimore, Annapolis and the Chesapeake Bay are within easy travel distance. Also, our famous Maryland crabs will be in season in August. Article 21417 of comp.ai: Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:21417 Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!noc.near.net!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!its.csiro.au!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!metro!grivel!peirce.une.edu.au!lukose From: lukose@peirce.une.edu.au (Dickson Lukose) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: CFP: ICCS'94 Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition using CG Theory Message-ID: <4027@grivel.une.edu.au> Date: 21 Mar 94 23:10:17 GMT Sender: usenet@grivel.une.edu.au Organization: University of New England, Armidale, Australia Lines: 139 Nntp-Posting-Host: peirce.une.edu.au C A L L F O R P A P E R S A N D P A R T I C I P A T I O N S ICCS'94 Workshop On Knowledge Acquisition using Conceptual Graph Theory August 19th, 1994 University of Maryland - College Park, MD 1. Topics and Issues Knowledge Acquisition can be defined as the process by which knowledge engineers discover the knowledge that the domain experts use to perform the task of interest. It is the task of gathering information from any source, and the transfer of these knowledge into a given expert system shell. Some knowledge engineers have defined it as the interactive modelling of a domain, or alternatively, as the transfer and transformation of expertise from knowledge source into a form that can be executed by a knowledge-based system to perform expert tasks . The proposed workshop would be first one held as part of the International Conference of Conceptual Structures (ICCS'94). This workshop proposes to concentrate on the application of the Conceptual Graph Theory and operators within this theory, for knowledge acquisition. The topics of this workshop include, but are not limited to: o Knowledge Acquisition Methodologies o Analysis and Comparisons of Different Knowledge Acquisition Techniques o Prototypical Knowledge Structures for Knowledge Acquisition Processes o Domain Modelling o Knowledge Level Modelling o Knowledge Acquisition Tools and Mechanisms o Ontology o Applications The major issues to be discussed at the workshop are when, how, and where particular knowledge acquisition paradigm work successfully. This discussion will consequently focus on the prototypical knowledge structures requisite for the knowledge acquisition process, and the conceptual graph operators and the different knowledge processing activities that will enable the encoding of the domain knowledge into knowledge base systems. A better understanding of when, how , and where questions will no doubt help to lay a solid foundation for development of new and innovative knowledge acquisition paradigms based on conceptual graph theory. 2. Workshop Organising Committee Dickson Lukose (Chair) University of New England, Australia lukose@peirce.une.edu.au Marie-Laure Mugnier LIRMM (CNRS et Universite Montpellier II) mugnier@lirmm.fr Mark Willems Free University of Amsterdam willems@cs.vu.nl Brain Gaines Knowledge Science Institute, University of Calgary gaines@fsc.cpsc.ucalgary.ca 3. Paper Submission Format Authors are invited to submit original papers describing experimental and/or theoretical results form all areas of knowledge acquisition using the conceptual graph theory. An electronic copy of the *full* paper with no more than 25 12pt single-spaced pages should be submitted to the following electronic mail address: Electronic mail address: lukose@peirce.une.edu.au Papers should be submitted before 10th. June 1994. All papers should be typed in single columns. Notification to authors will be sent out on the 30th. June 1994. The revised final papers should be submitted before 15th. July 1994 in order to be included in the proceedings. The proceedings will be available at the workshop. Each paper will be carefully reviewed by organising committee in the content areas on the paper's title page. Questions that will appear on the review form have been reproduced below. Authors are advised to bear these questions in mind while writing their papers: How important is the work reported? Does it attack an important/difficult problem or a peripheral/simple one? Does the approach offered advance the state of the art? Has this or similar work been previously reported? Are the problems and approaches completely new? Is this a novel combination of familiar techniques? Does the paper point out differences from related research? Is it re-inventing the wheel using new terminology? Is the paper technically sound? Does it carefully evaluate the strengths and limitations of its contribution? How are its claims backed up? Is the paper clearly written? Does it motivate the research? Does it describe he inputs, outputs and basic algorithms employed? Does the paper describe previous work? Are the results described and evaluated? Is the paper organised in a logical fashion? 4. Journal Publication of Selected Papers The workshop organising committee is currently negotiating with Academic Press for the publication of a special issue of the journal "Knowledge Acquisition", containing selected papers from this workshop. 5. Fees A US $35.00 fee will be charged to all attendees. This will include refreshments during the workshop break and a copy of the proceedings. A student fee of US $25.00 is available. 6. Important Dates 10th. June 1994 Submission of full paper 30th. June 1994 Notification of acceptance/rejection to authors 15th. July 1994 Submission of revised final papers 7. Further Information All enquires regarding this workshop should be directed to the following address: Dr. Dickson Lukose Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science The University of New England Armidale, N.S.W., 2351 AUSTRALIA E-mail: lukose@peirce.une.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)67 73 2302 Fax: +61 (0)67 73 3312