Conceptual Structures Tool Interoperability Workshop (CS-TIW 2006)
In conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Conceptual
Structures (ICCS 2006)
July 16, 2006, Aalborg
University Denmark
Call for Papers
(Closed)
Registration
To register for the
workshop, please go to the
registration page for ICCS. It is possible to register just for
the workshop, but obviously we recommend participants in the
workshop to attend that main conference as well.
The workshop fee (335.00 DDK - equivalent to app. 45 EUR) covers
participation, a copy of the workshop proceedings and lunch at a
neighboring restaurant.
Introduction
Many tools have been
developed in the conceptual structures community to model, represent
and reason about conceptual structures like Conceptual Graphs,
Formal Concepts, and related formalisms. However, such tools in
isolation are not sufficient to build comprehensive, effective
knowledge systems useful to communities and organizations. To this
purpose, these tools need to be able to interoperate with other
conceptual tools and information technologies. The goal of this
workshop is to explore how to improve this interoperability of
conceptual structures tools.
Themes
To explore this goal, the
workshop will have three main themes:
·
Interoperability Requirements
What types of applications
do conceptual structures tools have in real world knowledge systems
and systems development methodologies? What requirements do these
applications impose on conceptual structures tools? What breakdowns
occur in actual application practice? What (ad hoc or more
systematic) solutions have been developed to deal with these
problems?
·
Knowledge
Systems Architectures
What components do effective
knowledge systems have? What is the role of conceptual structures
tools in these systems? How to conceptualize knowledge systems
interoperability in terms of standard information systems and
software engineering methodologies? What architectural principles
should guide knowledge systems design and implementation?
·
Interoperability Standards
What are the most relevant
official and de facto standards affecting conceptual structures
tools interoperability? How should these standards inform knowledge
systems design? How to evaluate the standards in practical knowledge
system implementation? How can practical interoperability
experiences inform the standards setting process?
Topics
Topics to be addressed in
the submissions, include, but are not limited to:
- Interoperability conceptualization
- Requirements analysis
- Software integration and configuration
- Tool interfaces
- Web services
- Architectures
- Converters and wrappers
- Documentation
- Software engineering principles
- Open source methodologies
- Standards (official and de facto)
- Usability
- Evaluation methods
- Benchmarking
- Organizational issues (including
intellectual property rights)
Submission Details
Contributions with a
theoretical or a practical focus are welcome. Papers are limited to
14 pages in Springer's LNCS format. For more details see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs.
Paper submission is now
closed.
Papers were reviewed for
adherence to the workshop scope and quality by the chairs and
additional reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented at the
workshop and published in a separate ISBN-numbered proceedings by
Aalborg University Press.
Dates
·
Workshop: Sunday, July 16, 2006
Program Chairs
-
Aldo de Moor, STARLab,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
(ademoor @ vub.ac.be)
-
Simon Polovina,
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
s.polovina @ shu.ac.uk)
-
Harry Delugach,
University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
(delugach @ cs.uah.edu)
Contact: iccs06
