Connectionists: [CFP-Extended] 24th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS’19)

[Dominik Endres]

[Apologies for multiple postings.]
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Call for Papers: 24th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2019)
“Graphs in Human and Machine Cognition”
July 1st - July 4th, 2019, Marburg, Germany.


Website: https://iccs-conference.org
Twitter: @iccs_confs
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/conceptualstructures/
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About ICCS:
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The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) focus on the formal 
analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge, at the crossroads of artificial 
intelligence, human cognition, computational linguistics, and related areas of computer 
science and cognitive 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.  With the rise of quasi-autonomous AI, 
graph-based representations provide a vehicle for making machine cognition explicit to its 
human users. Conversely, graphical and graph-based models can provide a rigorous way 
of expressing intuitive notions in computable frameworks. The aim of the ICCS 2019 
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.


The conference welcomes contributions from a modelling, application and theoretical 
viewpoint:


- Modelling results will investigate concrete real world needs for graph-based 
representation,
for example (but not limited to) how human cognition can be mapped onto and facilitated 
by graphical representations, 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.


- 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. Where 
appropriate, the graph-based solutions are compared to other possible solutions.


- 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.


General Chair: Dominik Endres, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany


Program Chairs:
Mehwish Alam, ST-Lab, ISTC, CNR, Rome, Italy
Diana Sotropa, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania


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The main research topics are:
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- Graph-based models and tools for human reasoning,
- Existential and Conceptual Graphs
- Formal Concept Analysis
- Philosophical, neural, and didactic investigations of conceptual, graphical 
representations
- Knowledge architecture and management,
- Human and machine reasoning under inconsistency,
- Human and machine knowledge representation and uncertainty,
- Contextual logic,
- Constraint satisfaction,
- Decision making and Argumentation,
- Ontologies,
- Semantic Web, Web of Data, Web 2.0,
- Social network analysis,
- Conceptual knowledge acquisition,
- Data and Text mining,
- Conceptual structures in natural language processing and linguistics
- Metaphoric, cultural or semiotic considerations,
- Resource allocation and agreement technologies.


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Dates
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- Abstract submission deadline: November 30, 2018
- Full paper submission deadline: December 7, 2018
- Poster submission deadline: December 21, 2018 (Posters do not require advanced 
abstract submission)
- Paper Reviews Sent to Authors: January 18, 2019
- Rebuttals Due: January 25, 2019
- Notification to authors: February 1, 2019
- Camera-ready papers due: February 22, 2019


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Submission Information
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We invite scientific papers of up to fourteen pages, short contributions up to eight pages 
and extended poster abstracts of up to three pages.

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