CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES: FROM INFORMATION TO INTELLIGENCE

Call for Proposals for Tutorials

The mission of the 18th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS2010) is to bring together researchers and practitioners in information and computer sciences as well as social science to explore novel ways that conceptual structures can be deployed. ICCS2010 builds on the success of the former International Conference on Conceptual Structures series, but seeks to extend its focus by engaging with other communities.

The 18th ICCS will present the latest results in research and applications of Conceptual Structures technologies. In addition to the regular research and workshop programme, ICCS2010 invites tutorials on relevant topics of interest (see this call). A tutorial should present the state of the art in a Conceptual Structures area, enabling attendees to fully appreciate the current issues, main schools of thought and possible application areas.

ICCS2010 tutorials may be either for a full day or for a half day. Unless there is a clear rationale, we will give preference to half day tutorials over full day tutorials.

Tutorials proposed for ICCS2010 should cover mature methods on a topic in appropriate depth, and present it in a manner that enables attendees to fully comprehend and apply Conceptual Structures technologies. We encourage including hands-on sessions, while of course, tutorials can focus entirely on theoretical aspects when appropriate. In case of tutorials that employ tools that need an Internet connection, we appreciate some “plan B” devised in the proposals, in case of connection failure. We finally require proposers to consider tutorials as educational events first, which means that accepted tutorials should provide the attendees with appropriate and complete references to the state-of-the-art work in their respective fields, not only in a specific approach.

Important Dates

Proposal Submissions: March 15, 2009
 
Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 15, 2010
Tutorial camera-ready notes submissions: May 30, 2010
Tutorial days at the conference: July 26 - 27, 2010

For accepted tutorials, the presenters will need to submit the material for hand-outs (the slide sets and / or additional information; software installation and usage guides for practical hands-on sessions) to the organization committee for preprinting and placement on the ICCS2010 website.

Submission

Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages and should contain the following information:

  • abstract (200 words maximum, for inclusion on the ICCS2010 website)
  • tutorial description (aims, target audience, presentation method, technical requirements)
  • justification for the tutorial, including timeliness and relevance to ICCS2010
  • outline of the tutorial content and schedule
  • information on presenters (name, affiliation, expertise, experiences in teaching and in tutorial presentation)

Tutorial proposals are to be submitted as single PDF files by email to Daniel Bahls (Email: daniel.bahls@mimos.my)

Submitted proposals that follow the above guidelines will be reviewed by the ICCS2010 organizing committee with respect to relevance and maturity of the topic, content and presentation method, and presenters’ expertise.

Tutorial chairs

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Daniel Bahls (MIMOS BEHAD, Malaysia)

Conference Topics of Interest and Area Keywords

Topics of interest for ICCS2010 tutorials include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Graph based knowledge representation and reasoning;
    Conceptual knowledge acquisition;
  • Conceptual data processing, analysis and conceptual logic;
  • Interplay of conceptual structures with language, semantics, semiotics and pragmatics;
  • Representation and reasoning with conceptual structures;
  • Applied conceptual structures.