Call for Extended Abstracts
CONCEPTS 2024
1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures
28th Intl. Conf. on Conceptual Structures (ICCS)
18th Intl. Conf. on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA)
17th Intl. Conf. on Concept Lattices and their Applications (CLA)
September 9–13 2024, Cádiz, Spain
Website: https://concepts2024.uca.es
Email contact address: concepts24(a)lists.cs.uni-kassel.de
The 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures (CONCEPTS) is a merger of the three conferences CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA, which have been essential venues for researchers and practitioners working on theoretical and applied aspects of formal concept analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge, as well as closely related areas, such as data mining, information retrieval, knowledge management and discovery.
This new conference aims to continue the tradition and standards of previous conferences and become a key annual meeting to take along all members of the three communities of CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA and to keep abreast of the advances and new challenges in the field.
Main topics include but are not limited to
- Formal concept analysis: concept lattices, implications, algorithms and computational complexity
- Conceptual graphs, graph-based models for human reasoning
- Knowledge spaces and learning spaces
- Ontologies, semantic web, knowledge graphs
- Conceptual structures in natural language processing and linguistics
- Conceptual knowledge acquisition and management
- Conceptual knowledge discovery, data analysis, and visualization
- Probabilistic approaches to conceptual knowledge representation and knowledge discovery
- Approximation techniques in application to conceptual structures
- Bridging conceptual structures to information sciences, artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, database theory, software engineering, and other areas of computer science
- Understanding real-world data and modeling real-world phenomena with conceptual structures
With this call, we invite the authors of recently published papers (in 2023 or 2024) relevant to the conference to submit extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) of these papers. If accepted, the authors will have an opportunity to present their work at the conference on par with regular submissions and have the abstract included in the CONCEPTS 2024 Book of Abstracts.
We will consider abstracts of papers published in a Scopus-indexed journal or presented at a CORE-ranked conference in 2023 or 2024. Papers from previous editions of CONCEPTS 2024 ancestor conferences (CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA) are not eligible.
Please upload your submissions of up to two pages at https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/CONCEPTS2024 <https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/CONCEPTS2024>.
Please select the category for your submitted manuscript as “Extended abstract”. (the categories “regular paper” or “short paper” are no longer available).
Please format your submissions according to Springer’s style:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…
Please include a reference to the paper on which the abstract is based. If possible, please indicate a link to the online version of the paper or submit the paper or its draft version together with the abstract.
Submission deadline: May 3, 2024
Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2024
Organization:
General and Conference Chair:
Jesús Medina, University of Cádiz, Spain
Program Chairs:
Inma P. Cabrera, University of Málaga, Spain
Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France
Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany
Local organizer Committee:
María José Benítez Caballero, University of Cádiz, Spain
Fernando Chacón-Gómez, University of Cádiz, Spain
Samuel José Molina Ruiz, University of Cádiz, Spain
Francisco José Ocaña Alcázar, University of Cádiz, Spain
Executive Board:
Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Radim Belohlavek, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Tanya Braun, University of Münster, Germany
Madalina Croitoru, University of Montpellier, France
Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France
Sergei Kuznetsov, HSE University, Moscow, Russia
Rokia Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France
Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany
Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, University of Malaga, Spain
Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
Program Committee:
Cristina Alcalde, University of Basque Country, Spain
Alexandre Bazin, LIRMM, Montpellier, France
Sadok Ben Yahia, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Karell Bertet, La Rochelle University, France
Peggy Cellier, IRISA/INSA Rennes, France
Pablo Cordero, University of Málaga, Spain
Maria Eugenia Cornejo Piñero, University of Cádiz, Spain
Miguel Couceiro, University of Lorraine, France
Christophe Demko, La Rochelle University, France
Xavier Dolques, Université de Strasbourg, France
Bernhard Ganter, Ernst-Schröder--Zentrum für Begriffliche Wissensverarbeitung e.V., Darmstadt, Germany
Mohamed Hamza Ibrahim, University of Quebec in Outaouais, Canada
Tom Hanika, University of Kassel, Germany
Dmitry Ignatov, HSE University, Moscow, Russia
Jan Konecny, Palace University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Francesco Kriegel, TU Dresden, Germany
Markus Krötzsch, TU Dresden, Germany
Leonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Florence Le Ber, University of Strasbourg, France
Domingo López-Rodríguez, University of Málaga, Spain
Pierre Martin, University of Montpellier, France
Jesús Medina, University of Cádiz, Spain
Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, University Clermont Auvergne, France
Jan Outrata, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Eloisa Ramírez-Poussa, University of Cádiz, Spain
Sebastian Rudolph, TU Dresden, Germany
Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Baris Sertkaya, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Henry Soldano, Université Paris 13, France
Martín Trnecka, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Petko Valtchev, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Francisco J. Valverde-Albacete, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
***CoKA: Call for Contributions***
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Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition: Challenges, Opportunities, and Use Cases
Workshop at the 1st International Joint Conference on
Conceptual Knowledge Structures (CONCEPTS 2024)
September 9–13 2024, Cádiz, Spain
Workshop Website: https://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/coka/
Conference website: https://concepts2024.uca.es
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Formal concept analysis (FCA) can help make sense of data and the underlying
domain --- provided the data is not too big, not too noisy, representative of
the domain, and if there is data in the first place. What if you don’t have such
data readily available but are prepared to invest in collecting it and have
access to domain experts or other reliable queryable sources of information?
Conceptual exploration comes to the rescue!
Conceptual exploration is a family of knowledge-acquisition techniques within
FCA. The goal is to build a complete implicational theory of a domain (with
respect to a fixed language) by posing queries to a domain expert. When properly
implemented, it is a great tool that can help organize the process of scientific
discovery.
Unfortunately, proper implementations are scarce and success stories of using
conceptual exploration are somewhat rare and limited in scope. With this
workshop, we intend to analyze the situation and, maybe, find a solution. If
- you succeeded in acquiring new knowledge about or building a satisfying
conceptual representation of some domain with conceptual exploration before;
- you attempted conceptual exploration in application to your problem but failed
miserably;
- you want to use conceptual exploration to analyze some domain, but you don’t
know where and how to start;
- you are aware of alternatives to conceptual exploration;
then come to the workshop to share your experiences, insights, ideas, and
concerns with us!
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Keywords and Topics
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Knowledge Acquisition and Capture
Conceptual Exploration
Design Patterns and Paradigmatic Examples
successful use cases and real-world applications
challenges and lessons learned
application principles
missing theoretical foundations
missing technical infrastructure
integration with other theories and technologies
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Duration, Format, and Dates
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We invite contributions in the form of an extended abstract of up to two pages.
In addition, supplementary material, such as data sets, detailed descriptions,
or visualizations, may be submitted.
The workshop is planned for half a day within the conference dates and at the
same venue. It will consist of several short presentations each followed by a
plenary discussion.
Please send your contributions until *July 10, 2024* to
tom.hanika(a)uni-hildesheim.de. If you are not sure whether your contribution
matches the topics or the format of the workshop, you are welcome to contact the
organizers prior to submitting the abstract. An acceptance notification will be
sent within two weeks upon receiving the submission.
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Workshop Organizers
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- Tom Hanika, University of Hildesheim
- Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden
- Bernhard Ganter, Ernst-Schröder-Zentrum, Darmstadt
--
Dr. Tom Hanika
Universität Kassel Tel.: +49 (0) 561 804 6252
https://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/hanika
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*** Last Call for Papers - deadline extension***
CONCEPTS 2024
1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures
28th Intl. Conf. on Conceptual Structures (ICCS)
18th Intl. Conf. on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA)
17th Intl. Conf. on Concept Lattices and their Applications (CLA)
September 9–13 2024, Cádiz, Spain
Website:https://concepts2024.uca.es <https://concepts2024.uca.es>
Email contact address: concepts24(a)lists.cs.uni-kassel.de
<mailto:concepts24@lists.cs.uni-kassel.de>
The 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge
Structures (CONCEPTS) is a merger of the three conferences CLA, ICCS,
and ICFCA, which have been essential venues for researchers and
practitioners working on theoretical and applied aspects of formal
concept analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge, as well as
closely related areas, such as data mining, information retrieval,
knowledge management and discovery.
This new conference aims to continue the tradition and standards of
previous conferences and become a key annual meeting to take along all
members of the three communities of CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA and to keep
abreast of the advances and new challenges in the field.
Main topics include but are not limited to
- Formal concept analysis: concept lattices, implications, algorithms
and computational complexity
- Conceptual graphs, graph-based models for human reasoning
- Knowledge spaces and learning spaces
- Ontologies, semantic web, knowledge graphs
- Conceptual structures in natural language processing and linguistics
- Conceptual knowledge acquisition and management
- Conceptual knowledge discovery, data analysis, and visualization
- Probabilistic approaches to conceptual knowledge representation and
knowledge discovery
- Approximation techniques in application to conceptual structures
- Bridging conceptual structures to information sciences, artificial
intelligence, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval,
database theory, software engineering, and other areas of computer science
- Understanding real-world data and modeling real-world phenomena with
conceptual structures
Submission details:
Submissions are invited on significant, original (previously
unpublished) research on the topics of the conference:
*
*
* /*journal-track papers up to 26 pages*//(submission closed)/
**
*
regular papers up to 16 pages and short papers up to 8 pages, to be
published by Springer in the LNAI series as a proceedings volume.
All submissions will be subject to single-blind peer review. Accepted
papers have to be presented at the conference on-site. Therefore, at
least one author per paper has to register timely and attend the
conference on-site.
Important dates and submission instructions:
***Regular and short papers***
- Abstract submission: March 25, 2024 (extended dealine)(AoE)
- Full paper submission: April 2, 2024 (extended deadline)(AoE)
- Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2024
- Camera-ready papers due: May 30, 2024
Submission link:
https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/CONCEPTS2024
<https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/CONCEPTS2024>. Please
select the appropriate category for your submitted manuscript, “regular
paper” or “short paper”. Please visit the page Information for authors
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>on
Springer's website for templates and formatting style.
Organization:
_General and Conference Chair:_
Jesús Medina, University of Cádiz, Spain
_Program Chairs:_
Inma P. Cabrera, University of Málaga, Spain
Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France
Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany
_Local organizer Committee:_
María José Benítez Caballero, University of Cádiz, Spain
Fernando Chacón-Gómez, University of Cádiz, Spain
Samuel José Molina Ruiz, University of Cádiz, Spain
Francisco José Ocaña Alcázar, University of Cádiz, Spain
_Executive Board: _
Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Radim Belohlavek, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Tanya Braun, University of Münster, Germany
Madalina Croitoru, University of Montpellier, France
Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France
Sergei Kuznetsov, HSE University, Moscow, Russia
Rokia Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France
Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany
Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, University of Malaga, Spain
Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
_Program Committee:_
**
Cristina Alcalde, University of Basque Country, Spain
Alexandre Bazin, LIRMM, Montpellier, France
Sadok Ben Yahia, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Karell Bertet, La Rochelle University, France
Peggy Cellier, IRISA/INSA Rennes, France
Pablo Cordero, University of Málaga, Spain
Maria Eugenia Cornejo Piñero, University of Cádiz, Spain
Miguel Couceiro, University of Lorraine, France
Christophe Demko, La Rochelle University, France
Xavier Dolques, Université de Strasbourg, France
Bernhard Ganter, Ernst-Schröder--Zentrum für Begriffliche
Wissensverarbeitung e.V., Darmstadt, Germany
Mohamed Hamza Ibrahim, University of Quebec in Outaouais, Canada
Tom Hanika, University of Kassel, Germany
Dmitry Ignatov, HSE University, Moscow, Russia
Jan Konecny, Palace University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Francesco Kriegel, TU Dresden, Germany
Markus Krötzsch, TU Dresden, Germany
Leonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Florence Le Ber, University of Strasbourg, France
Domingo López-Rodríguez, University of Málaga, Spain
Pierre Martin, University of Montpellier, France
Jesús Medina, University of Cádiz, Spain
Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, University Clermont Auvergne, France
Jan Outrata, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Eloisa Ramírez-Poussa, University of Cádiz, Spain
Sebastian Rudolph, TU Dresden, Germany
Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Baris Sertkaya, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Henry Soldano, Université Paris 13, France
Martín Trnecka, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Petko Valtchev, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Francisco J. Valverde-Albacete, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
*
We look forward to meeting you in Cádiz.
Please, feel free to contact us for any further information.
Sincerely yours,
*Inma P. Cabrera, Sébastien Ferré, Sergei Obiedkov*
*CONCEPTS 2024 Program chairs*
(Apologies for cross postings)
[FOIS2024][CfP] FOIS 2024 deadline extension main track
NEWS:
- new deadline submission: 18 March 2024 (AoE)
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14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024)
15-19 July 2024 (Enschede, Netherlands) - 08-09 July 2024 (online)
Website: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/
Paper submission deadline (extended): 04 March 2024 (AoE)
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**Definition & scope**
The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers interested in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations comprising the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. The conference encourages the submission of high-quality, not previously published results on both theoretical issues and practical advancements. FOIS 2024 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies.
FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA), a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology.
FOIS 2024 will be held both online and in Enschede, the Netherlands, by the Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services group of the University of Twente.
**Submission types**
FOIS 2024 seeks three types of full-length (14 pages) high-quality papers on a wide range of topics:
* Foundational papers address content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, and their relevance to some aspect of information systems.
* Application and Methods papers address novel systems, methods, and tools related to building, evaluating, or using ontologies, emphasizing the impact of ontology contents.
* Domain ontology papers describe a novel ontology for a specific realm of interest, clarifying ontological choices against requirements and foundational theory, and showing ontology use.
For more information on the submission instructions, please visit: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/calls/#submission-instructions
As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press.
**Topics of interest**
Foundational Issues:
* Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts, events/processes
* Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation
* Vagueness and granularity
* Space, time, and change
Methodological issues:
* Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies
* Role of reference ontologies
* Ontology similarity, integration, alignment, matching and entity reconciliation
* Ontology modularity, patterns, and contextuality
* Ontology evaluation, quality, reuse, adaptation, and evolution
* Ontology compliance with FAIR principles
* Formal comparison among ontologies
* Relationship between conceptual modeling and ontologies
* Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, and context
* Connections between knowledge graphs and ontologies
* Methodological issues in the applications of ontologies
* Social issues, such as trust or bias, with respect to ontologies
Applications:
* Technical applications of ontologies, such as:
* Semantic Web
* Other areas of AI (Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Rules)
* Qualitative modeling
* Systems applications of ontologies, such as:
* Ontology-driven information systems design
* Ontology-based data access
* Knowledge managementInformation retrieval
* Computational linguistics
* Metadata management
* Domain applications of ontologies, such as:
* Ontologies for business modeling
* Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics, etc.)
* Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture, etc.
* Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, etc.
* Ontologies for the social sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology, etc.
* Ontologies for Open Science and dataset sharing
Domain-specific ontologies:
* Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, etc.)
* Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells, etc.)
* Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions, cognition, etc.)
* Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles
* Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, etc.)
**Organisation**
General Chairs
Giancarlo Guizzardi; University of Twente; The Netherlands
Program Committee Chairs
Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France
Daniele Porello, University of Genova, Italy
Local Organisation Chair
Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, The Netherlands
JOWO Chairs
Claudenir M. Fonseca, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Guendalina Righetti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Online Chairs
Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK
FAIR Chairs
Luiz Olavo Bonino, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Journal-first Chairs
Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Italy
Adrien Barton, IRIT & CNRS, France
Ontology Showcase Chairs
Laura Daniele, TNO, The Netherlands
João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Demonstration Chairs
Pawel Garbacz, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Project Exhibition Chair
Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden
Industry Chairs
Jan Voskuil, Taxonic, The Netherlands
Mara Abel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Tutorial Chairs
Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Veruska Zamborlini, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Early Career Symposium Chairs
Zubeida Dawood, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
Pedro Paulo F. Barcelos, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Publicity Chairs
Mattia Fumagalli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Greta Adamo, Basque Centre for Climate Change, Spain
Proceedings Chairs
Pedro Paulo F. Barcelos, University of Twente, The Netherlands
The book "Formal Concept Analysis -- Mathematical Foundations" is to receive
a second, expanded edition. A first version is available, and it would help
me if some colleagues could look at it and let me know what they think.
It's not just about typos or math errors. You are also welcome to check
whether
your contributions have been taken into account and are cited correctly.
If you are interested, please e-mail me to bernhard.ganter(a)tu-dresden.de
In coordination with the publisher, I will then send you a personalized pdf
and hope for your feedback.
Kind regards,
Bernhard Ganter
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*** 3rd Call for Papers ***
CONCEPTS 2024
1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures
28th Intl. Conf. on Conceptual Structures (ICCS)
18th Intl. Conf. on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA)
17th Intl. Conf. on Concept Lattices and their Applications (CLA)
September 9–13 2024, Cádiz, Spain
Website:https://concepts2024.uca.es <https://concepts2024.uca.es>
Email contact address: concepts24(a)lists.cs.uni-kassel.de
<mailto:concepts24@lists.cs.uni-kassel.de>
The 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge
Structures (CONCEPTS) is a merger of the three conferences CLA, ICCS,
and ICFCA, which have been essential venues for researchers and
practitioners working on theoretical and applied aspects of formal
concept analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge, as well as
closely related areas, such as data mining, information retrieval,
knowledge management and discovery.
This new conference aims to continue the tradition and standards of
previous conferences and become a key annual meeting to take along all
members of the three communities of CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA and to keep
abreast of the advances and new challenges in the field.
Main topics include but are not limited to
- Formal concept analysis: concept lattices, implications, algorithms
and computational complexity
- Conceptual graphs, graph-based models for human reasoning
- Knowledge spaces and learning spaces
- Ontologies, semantic web, knowledge graphs
- Conceptual structures in natural language processing and linguistics
- Conceptual knowledge acquisition and management
- Conceptual knowledge discovery, data analysis, and visualization
- Probabilistic approaches to conceptual knowledge representation and
knowledge discovery
- Approximation techniques in application to conceptual structures
- Bridging conceptual structures to information sciences, artificial
intelligence, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval,
database theory, software engineering, and other areas of computer science
- Understanding real-world data and modeling real-world phenomena with
conceptual structures
Submission details:
Submissions are invited on significant, original (previously
unpublished) research on the topics of the conference:
*
journal-track papers up to 26 pages, to be published in a special
issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR)
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-approximate-…>;
*
regular papers up to 16 pages and short papers up to 8 pages, to be
published by Springer in the LNAI series as a proceedings volume.
All submissions will be subject to single-blind peer review. Accepted
papers have to be presented at the conference on-site. Therefore, at
least one author per paper has to register timely and attend the
conference on-site.
Important dates and submission instructions:
***Journal-track submissions***
- Full paper submission: March 17, 2024 (AoE)
- Paper reviews sent to authors: May 3, 2024
- Revised submission: June 3, 2024
- Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2024
Manuscripts must be submitted via the International Journal of
Approximate Reasoningonline submission system (Editorial Manager®):
https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/ija/default2.aspx
<https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/ija/default2.aspx>
Please select the article type “VSI: CONCEPTS 2024” when submitting your
manuscript online.
Please refer to the Guide for Authorsto prepare your manuscript:
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-approximate-reas…
<https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-approximate-reas…>
See also LaTeX instructions:
https://www.elsevier.com/researcher/author/policies-and-guidelines/latex-in…
<https://www.elsevier.com/researcher/author/policies-and-guidelines/latex-in…>.
***Regular and short papers***
- Abstract submission: March 18, 2024 (AoE)
- Full paper submission: March 25, 2024 (AoE)
- Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2024
- Camera-ready papers due: May 30, 2024
Submission link:
https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/CONCEPTS2024
<https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/CONCEPTS2024>. Please
select the appropriate category for your submitted manuscript, “regular
paper” or “short paper”. Please visit the page Information for authors
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>on
Springer's website for templates and formatting style.
Organization:
_General and Conference Chair:_
Jesús Medina, University of Cádiz, Spain
_Program Chairs:_
Inma P. Cabrera, University of Málaga, Spain
Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France
Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany
_Local organizer Committee:_
María José Benítez Caballero, University of Cádiz, Spain
Fernando Chacón-Gómez, University of Cádiz, Spain
Samuel José Molina Ruiz, University of Cádiz, Spain
Francisco José Ocaña Alcázar, University of Cádiz, Spain
_Executive Board: _
Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Radim Belohlavek, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Tanya Braun, University of Münster, Germany
Madalina Croitoru, University of Montpellier, France
Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France
Sergei Kuznetsov, HSE University, Moscow, Russia
Rokia Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France
Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany
Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, University of Malaga, Spain
Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
_Program Committee:_
Alexandre Bazin, LIRMM, Montpellier, France
Karell Bertet, La Rochelle University, France
Peggy Cellier, IRISA/INSA Rennes, France
Maria Eugenia Cornejo Piñero, University of Cádiz, Spain
Christophe Demko, La Rochelle University, France
Xavier Dolques, Université de Strasbourg, France
Bernhard Ganter, Ernst-Schröder--Zentrum für Begriffliche
Wissensverarbeitung e.V., Darmstadt, Germany
Mohamed Hamza Ibrahim, University of Quebec in Outaouais, Canada
Tom Hanika, University of Kassel, Germany
Dmitry Ignatov, HSE University, Moscow, Russia
Francesco Kriegel, TU Dresden, Germany
Markus Krötzsch, TU Dresden, Germany
Leonard Kwuida, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Pierre Martin, University of Montpellier, France
Jesús Medina, University of Cádiz, Spain
Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, University Clermont Auvergne, France
Jan Outrata, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Sebastian Rudolph, TU Dresden, Germany
Christian Sacarea, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Baris Sertkaya, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Henry Soldano, Université Paris 13, France
Petko Valtchev, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
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We look forward to meeting you in Cádiz.
Please, feel free to contact us for any further information.
Sincerely yours,
*Inma P. Cabrera, Sébastien Ferré, Sergei Obiedkov*
*CONCEPTS 2024 Program chairs*
(Apologies for cross postings)
[FOIS2024][CfP] FOIS 2024 deadline extension main track
NEWS:
- final deadline submission: 04 March 2024 (AoE)
- abstracts were not mandatory on 26 February 2024 (AoE)!!!
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14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024)
15-19 July 2024 (Enschede, Netherlands) - 08-09 July 2024 (online)
Website: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/
Paper submission deadline (extended): 04 March 2024 (AoE)
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**Definition & scope**
The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers interested in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations comprising the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. The conference encourages the submission of high-quality, not previously published results on both theoretical issues and practical advancements. FOIS 2024 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies.
FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA), a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology.
FOIS 2024 will be held both online and in Enschede, the Netherlands, by the Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services group of the University of Twente.
**Important dates**
Paper submission deadline (extended): 04 March 2024 (AoE)
Notifications: 15 April 2024
Virtual conference: 8-9 July 2024
Onsite conference: 15-19 July 2024
Camera-ready papers: 30 July 2024
**Submission types**
FOIS 2024 seeks three types of full-length (14 pages) high-quality papers on a wide range of topics:
* Foundational papers address content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, and their relevance to some aspect of information systems.
* Application and Methods papers address novel systems, methods, and tools related to building, evaluating, or using ontologies, emphasizing the impact of ontology contents.
* Domain ontology papers describe a novel ontology for a specific realm of interest, clarifying ontological choices against requirements and foundational theory, and showing ontology use.
For more information on the submission instructions, please visit: https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/fois2024/calls/#submission-instructions
As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press.
**Topics of interest**
Foundational Issues:
* Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts, events/processes
* Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation
* Vagueness and granularity
* Space, time, and change
Methodological issues:
* Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies
* Role of reference ontologies
* Ontology similarity, integration, alignment, matching and entity reconciliation
* Ontology modularity, patterns, and contextuality
* Ontology evaluation, quality, reuse, adaptation, and evolution
* Ontology compliance with FAIR principles
* Formal comparison among ontologies
* Relationship between conceptual modeling and ontologies
* Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, and context
* Connections between knowledge graphs and ontologies
* Methodological issues in the applications of ontologies
* Social issues, such as trust or bias, with respect to ontologies
Applications:
* Technical applications of ontologies, such as:
* Semantic Web
* Other areas of AI (Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Rules)
* Qualitative modeling
* Systems applications of ontologies, such as:
* Ontology-driven information systems design
* Ontology-based data access
* Knowledge managementInformation retrieval
* Computational linguistics
* Metadata management
* Domain applications of ontologies, such as:
* Ontologies for business modeling
* Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics, etc.)
* Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture, etc.
* Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, etc.
* Ontologies for the social sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology, etc.
* Ontologies for Open Science and dataset sharing
Domain-specific ontologies:
* Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, etc.)
* Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells, etc.)
* Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions, cognition, etc.)
* Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles
* Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, etc.)
**Organisation**
General Chairs
Giancarlo Guizzardi; University of Twente; The Netherlands
Program Committee Chairs
Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France
Daniele Porello, University of Genova, Italy
Local Organisation Chair
Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, The Netherlands
JOWO Chairs
Claudenir M. Fonseca, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Guendalina Righetti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Online Chairs
Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK
FAIR Chairs
Luiz Olavo Bonino, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Journal-first Chairs
Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR Laboratory for Applied Ontology, Italy
Adrien Barton, IRIT & CNRS, France
Ontology Showcase Chairs
Laura Daniele, TNO, The Netherlands
João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Demonstration Chairs
Pawel Garbacz, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Robert Pergl, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Project Exhibition Chair
Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden
Industry Chairs
Jan Voskuil, Taxonic, The Netherlands
Mara Abel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Tutorial Chairs
Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Veruska Zamborlini, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Early Career Symposium Chairs
Zubeida Dawood, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
Pedro Paulo F. Barcelos, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Publicity Chairs
Mattia Fumagalli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Greta Adamo, Basque Centre for Climate Change, Spain
Proceedings Chairs
Pedro Paulo F. Barcelos, University of Twente, The Netherlands
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*Call for Workshops and Tutorials*
*1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures*
*Cádiz (Spain) - September**, 9th-13th, 2024 *
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The 1st International Joint Conference on Conceptual
Knowledge Structures (CONCEPTS) is a merger of the three conferences
CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA, which have been essential venues for researchers
and practitioners working on theoretical and applied aspects of
formal concept analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge, as
well as closely related areas, such as data mining, information
retrieval, knowledge management and discovery.
This new conference aims to continue the tradition and standards
of previous conferences and become a key annual meeting to take along
all members of the three communities of CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA and to
keep abreast of the advances and new challenges in the field.
Main topics include but are not limited to:
- Formal concept analysis: concept lattices, implications,
algorithms and computational complexity
- Conceptual graphs, graph-based models for human reasoning
- Knowledge spaces and learning spaces
- Ontologies, semantic web, knowledge graphs
- Conceptual structures in natural language processing and linguistics
- Conceptual knowledge acquisition and management
- Conceptual knowledge discovery, data analysis, and visualization
- Probabilistic approaches to conceptual knowledge representation and
knowledge discovery
- Approximation techniques in application to conceptual structures
- Bridging conceptual structures to information sciences, artificial
intelligence, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval,
database theory, software engineering, and other areas of computer science
- Understanding real-world data and modeling real-world phenomena with
conceptual structures.
*_Workshops and Tutorials_*
We cordially invite you to submit proposals for both*workshops and
tutorial* in current and emerging research lines in (or related to) the
main topics of CONCEPTS (https://concepts2024.uca.es/cfp/). The
workshops and tutorials provide an opportunity to discuss novel topics
in an interactive atmosphere. They can concentrate in-depth on research
topics, but can also be devoted to application issues. Proposals will be
submitted by email to concepts2024(a)uca.es.
Workshops and tutorials will be scheduled on September 9-10, 2024.
*_Submissions _*
Workshops and tutorials proposal: February 28, 2024.
Notification of acceptance workshops and tutorials: March 4, 2024.
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*_General and Conference Chair_**__*
Jesús Medina, University of Cádiz, Spain
*_Program Chairs_*
Inma P. Cabrera, University of Málaga, Spain
Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France
Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany
*_Workshops and Tutorials chair_*
Eloísa Ramírez Poussa, University of Cádiz, Spain
*_Executive Board_*
Jaume Baixeries, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Radim Belohlavek, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Tanya Braun, University of Münster, Germany
Madalina Croitoru, University of Montpellier, France
Sébastien Ferré, University of Rennes, France
Sergei Kuznetsov, HSE University, Moscow, Russia
Rokia Missaoui, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, Nancy, France
Sergei Obiedkov, TU Dresden, Germany
Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, University of Malaga, Spain
Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
You can find extended information on CONCEPTS24 web page:
https://concepts2024.uca.es/
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contact us at concepts2024(a)uca.es.
We look forward to meeting you in Cádiz. Please, feel free to contact us
for any further information.
Also, submissions for papers for the journal track (deadline on March 6)
and the regular track (deadline on March 25) are still open. For more
information, see the CONCEPTS website:
https://concepts2024.uca.es/submissions/
Sincerely yours,
*Eloísa Ramírez Poussa*
*CONCEPTS 2024 Workshops and Tutorials chair.*
** With apologies for multiple posting **
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Onto4FAIR Workshop at Semantics 2023
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3rd Workshop on Ontologies for FAIR and FAIR Ontologies (Onto4FAIR), in conjunction with Semantics 2023, 20 September 2023, Leipzig, Germany
This is a twin workshop proposal at both FOIS 2023 and Semantics 2023 conferences. The primary aim is to bring the gap between the scientific and the practitioner/industry sides, respectively, where we would take the greatest and latest advances in the state of the art to industry and bring back the practitioners' needs and challenges to the scientific community of figure out a solution.
For more details please check the website: https://onto4fair.github.io/2023-semantics.html
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Presentation
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Making the resources produced by researchers fully reusable and understood requires specific efforts. The Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) principles were elaborated to address these issues, describing a set of requirements for resource reusability and interoperability. These principles have been gaining increasing attention in a range of different areas and applications. One the one hand, a key aspect is the ability of properly and semantically describing resources, in particular with the help of ontologies. On the other hand, ontologies themselves have to be compliant with the FAIR principles.
The workshop has the following main goals: (i) to bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to discuss the adoption of FAIR principles in research and real-world requirements. (ii) to serve to inform about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. (iii) to investigate how the FAIR principles are supported by the use of ontologies that ideally are themselves FAIR. (iv) to discuss the challenges and perspectives in adopting FAIR principles.
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Workshop topics
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The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- schemes, ontologies and vocabulaires for FAIR data and metadata;
- domain and cross-domain ontologies for FAIR data;
- making vocabularies and ontologies FAIR;
- alignment of schemes, vocabulaires and ontologies for FAIR;
- data management for FAIR data;
- best practices for implementing the FAIR principles;
- FAIRification process and use cases;
- metrics for FAIRness assessment;
- provenance in FAIR environments;
- FAIR principles and open science;
- FAIR principles and linked open data;
- FAIR in industry, scientific communities (life science, digital humanities, health, smart cities, etc.).
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Important dates
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- Workshop paper submission deadline: July 21, 2023 (extended)
- Author notification: August 07, 2023
- Camera-ready version: August 28, 2023
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Submissions
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- Full research papers: 12 pages (including references)
- Short papers: 6 pages (including references)
Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style of IOS Press template.
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Workshop Chairs
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- Cassia Trojahn, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France
- Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, University of Twente and Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands
- Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, the Netherlands
- Clement Jonquet, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, Mathematics, Informatics and STatistics for Environment and Agronomy research unit, Montpellier, France
Best regards
Cassia Trojahn
Dear friends of FCA,
This mail got longer than anticipated. In short: I propose to create a
repository of formal contexts with machine-readable metadata. You can
find a initial draft here: https://github.com/fcatools/contexts
The long story: Sometimes it would be helpful to have exemplary formal
contexts readily available, for example, for illustrational purposes,
for testing algorithms, for benchmarking, or for beginners to explore
and learn FCA. However, I have not found a comprehensive repository of
example formal contexts. I know that Uta Priss has some classic
contexts on her web page (https://upriss.github.io/fca/examples.html)
and some FCA tools have contexts for unit tests (e.g.,
https://github.com/tomhanika/conexp-clj/tree/dev/testing-data) but
these are neither comprehensive nor easy to find, they have no
machine-readable metadata, they are not integrated into FCA tools or
libraries, and they are sometimes difficult to cite.
What I would like to have for FCA is what popular data science
libraries provide. For example, scikit-learn
(https://scikit-learn.org/) has some basic datasets
(https://scikit-learn.org/stable/datasets/toy_dataset.html) included
which can be accessed with just one line of Python code:
iris = datasets.load_iris()
Similarly, Seaborn's load_dataset() method loads datasets from a git
repository (https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn-data).
As there are many frequently-used exemplary formal contexts, I suggest
to create a git-based repository which contains such contexts together
with machine-readable metadata that describes them. I'd like to follow
the KISS principle and not over-engineer the whole thing, that is,
1. Each context is just a file in a git repository (suitable file
formats are open for discussion, IMHO at least CTX).
2. The metadata for each context is described in file that is
machine-readable and human-editable. My impression is that a
stripped-down version of YAML would be sufficient (that is, just
hierarchical key-value pairs).
An initial draft of such a repository can be found here:
https://github.com/fcatools/contexts
Using Git(Hub) has some benefits, for example, version control, a
workflow for collaboration and contributions (forks, pull requests), a
continous integration pipeline for the automatic generation of
derivatives (e.g., human-readable documentation, statistics, lattice
diagrams), simple programmatic access using HTTP, etc. (I am aware of
research data repositories but I think they are not the best choice
for what I have in mind. Still, snapshots of the git repo could
regularly be published, e.g., on Zenodo, which supports GitHub.)
The repository could easily be integrated into FCA workflows, tools,
and libraries and could simplify the (re)use of FCA (data).
Specifically, I'd like to support maintainers of FCA tools and
libraries to integrate access to the repository such that getting a
context is as simple as it is with other data in scikit-learn or
Seaborn. With a bit more time and effort more would be possible, for
example, a browseable repository of contexts like http://konect.cc/
provides for (social) networks.
Next steps towards the abovementioned goals would be:
1. gather feedback from the community
2. develop a curation policy and metadata schema
2. collect contexts and metadata
4. reach out to authors of FCA tools and libraries
I'd be very glad to get the discussion started and read your comments.
Best regards,
Robert Jäschke
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