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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@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Submissions are invited on significant, original (previously unpublished) research on the topics of the conference: 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. Please select the appropriate category for your submitted manuscript, “regular paper” or “short paper”. Please visit the page Information for authors 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