CALL FOR PAPERS ICCS 2001 9th International Conference on Conceptual Structures: Broadening the Base July 30 - August 3, 2001, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, U.S.A. sponsored by the Stanford Knowledge Systems Lab (KSL) and the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University. http://www.ksl.Stanford.EDU/iccs2001/ The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) have been held annually in Europe, Australia, and North America since 1993. The central focus is the formal analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge with applications to 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, including formal concept analysis, description logics, situation theory, discourse representation theory, SNePS, and other related techniques. Papers for ICCS'01 are invited on the following topics: conceptual structures (theory, applications, and experience with case studies); natural language processing with emphasis on semantics and pragmatics; conceptual analysis, modeling, representation, and visualization; knowledge acquisition; and the theory and applications of ontology. Comparisons of methods and representations on the basis of reasoning ability, expressiveness, ease of use, and computational performance are welcome. ICCS 2001 will hold a joint session with the 2001 International Workshop on Description Logics, which will be held at Stanford from August 1st to 3rd. We encourage authors to submit papers to the joint session. For more information about the DL workshop, see http://www.ksl.Stanford.EDU/dl2001 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. Author's Information Papers are limited to 14 pages, single column in US letter format. Position papers (2 pages) are also welcome. A one page abstract in PostScript or PDF (preferred) format must be received by delugach@cs.uah.edu by Sunday January 7, 2001. The electronic submission in Postscript or PDF (preferred) format must be received on or before Sunday, January 14, 2001, at delugach@cs.uah.edu. See the conference website for further details. Papers accepted for publication will appear in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series by Springer-Verlag. Editors of the volume are Harry Delugach (Huntsville) and Gerd Stumme (Karlsruhe). Papers accepted for presentation only and position papers will appear in supplementary proceedings. Call for Workshop Proposals ICCS 2001 invites proposals for workshops. Workshops will be held on July 31, 2001. They will provide an informal setting where workshop participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Workshops at the boundaries between different topics are particularly encouraged. All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, to stumme@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, in plain ASCII text, as soon as possible but no later than December 9, 2000. Prospective organizers will be notified of the decision of the Editorial Board no later than January 15, 2001. Proposals for workshops should contain the following information: (a) a brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop goals and the technical issues that will be its focus; (b) a brief discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest; (c) a preliminary workshop agenda and a proposed schedule for organizing the workshop (deadlines, etc.); (d) whether the workshop is expected to take up half a day or an entire day; (e) the organizers' plan for preparing camera-ready copy for a workshop proceedings (if appropriate); (f) a list of tentatively confirmed attendees; the names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses (if available) of the proposed workshop organizing committee. The workshop organizing committee should consist of three or four people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. See the conference website for further details. Conference Chairs General Chair: Robert Levinson Program Chairs: Harry Delugach, Gerd Stumme Local Chair: Robert Spillers Editorial Board Galia Angelova (Bulgaria) Michel Chein (France) Peter Eklund (Australia) John Esch (U.S.A) Bernhard Ganter (Germany) Roger Hartley (U.S.A) Lotfi Lakhal (France) Wilfried Lex (Germany) Deborah McGuinness (U.S.A.) Guy Mineau (Canada) Bernard Moulin (Canada) Marie-Laure Mugnier (France) Heather Pfeiffer (U.S.A) Uta Priss (U.S.A) John Sowa (U.S.A) Bill Tepfenhart (U.S.A) Rudolf Wille (Germany) Program Committee Jean-François Baget (France) Tru Cao (U.K.) Dan Corbett (Australia) Judy Dick (Canada) David Genest (France) Olivier Gerbé (Canada) Carole Goble (U.K.) Robert Godin (Canada) Michel Habib (France) Ollivier Haemmerlé (France) Adil Kabbaj (Morocco) Mary Keeler (U.S.A) Adalbert Kerber (Germany) Sergei Kuznetsov (Germany) Pavel Kocura (U.K.) Wolfgang Lenski (Germany) Graham Mann (Australia) Philippe Martin (Australia) João P. Martins (Portugal) Ralf Moeller (Germany) Aldo de Moor (Netherlands) Peter Øhrstrøm (Danmark) Silke Pollandt (Germany) Richard Raban (Australia) Anne-Marie Rassinoux (Switzerland) Daniel Rochowiak (U.S.A.) Eric Salvat (France) Ulrike Sattler (Germany) Stuart Shapiro (U.S.A) Finnegan Southey (Canada) Thanwadee Thanitsukkarn (Thailand) Petko Valtchev (Canada) Michel Wermelinger (Portugal) Further Information This call for papers and the latest information regarding the conference can be found on the World Wide Web after November 3rd at: http://www.ksl.Stanford.EDU/iccs2001/ Further information is also available from Bob Spillers at Robert Spillers 136 Bardet Road Woodside, CA 94062 U.S.A. +1 650-851-1135 spillers@csli.stanford.edu -- ======================= Deborah L. McGuinness Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist Knowledge Systems Laboratory Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 dlm@ksl.stanford.edu voice 650 723 9770 fax 650 725 5850 2001 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2001) Call for Papers Stanford University, California, USA Wednesday 1 August - Friday 3 August, 2001 (approximate) homepage: http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/dl2001 The 2001 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2001) continues the tradition of international workshops devoted to discussing developments and applications of knowledge representation formalisms based on Description Logics. DL2001 will be part of the ICCS2001 (International Conference on Conceptual Structures), which will be held in Stanford, California, USA, 31 July to 3 August 2001 (approximate). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS To be determined ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS We invite submissions of technical papers of 8 pages and short position papers (for people that want to participate in the workshop without giving talks). Authors of accepted technical and position papers will be invited to participate in the workshop (participation will be by invitation only). Accepted technical papers will be included in the workshop proceedings as normal papers (8 pages) or long papers (12 pages). The workshop proceedings will be distributed in paper form at the workshop, and will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission TN-deadline: 16 April 2000 Notification of acceptance: 21 May 2000 Camera ready papers due: 18 June 2000 Workshop: 1 August - 3 August, 2001 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE The focus of DL2001 will be on ``Applying DL to the Semantic Web'' including DL languages for ontologies, DL systems for reasoning with information in or about the web, and .... including DL languages for ontologies, DL systems for reasoning with information in or about the web, and .... In addition to papers related to this focus topic, we invite contributions on all other aspects of Description Logics. Possible subjects include -- Foundations of Description Logics, including distinguishing features of Description Logics with respect to other formalisms, expressive power of Description Logics, decidability and complexity of reasoning, and novel inference problems and reasoning techniques for solving these problems. -- Extensions of Description Logics, including, but not limited to, closed world reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, and query languages. -- Integration of Description Logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems. -- Use of Description Logics in applications or areas such as natural language, planning, learning, databases, document management systems, semi-structured data, and ontology design, with special emphasis on the pros and cons of choosing Description Logics. -- Building systems based on Description Logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS Interested parties are invited to submit a technical paper not exceeding 8 pages that is formated according to the guidelines to be found at http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/dl2001/submission.txt or a short position paper indicating interest in Description Logics and the workshop. Email submissions as self-contained standard Postscript attachments should be sent by 16 April 2001 to dl2001@ksl.stanford.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE Carol Goble Deborah L. McGuinness (co-chair) Ralf F. Moeller Peter F. Patel-Schneider (co-chair) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES * Information regarding costs, travel information, hotels, etc. will be distributed later. Check the WWW page of the workshop at http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/dl2001 for updates. * Enquiries about the DL2001 workshop can be made by mailing to the organizing committee: dl2001@ksl.stanford.edu * The official Description Logics WWW home page is at http://dl.kr.org/dl/ * Patrick Lambrix has a nice collection of DL references, researchers, etc. at: http://www.ida.liu.se/labs/iislab/people/patla/DL/index.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------