*** 2nd 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
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Submissions are invited on significant, original (previously unpublished) research on the topics of the conference. All accepted submissions will be refereed, by following three different modalities:

• journal track papers, up to 26 pages, to be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR);
• 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 6, 2024
- 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 Reasoning online submission system (Editorial Manager®): 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 Authors to prepare your manuscript: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-journal-of-approximate-reasoning/0888-613X/guide-for-authors.
See also LaTeX instructions:
https://www.elsevier.com/researcher/author/policies-and-guidelines/latex-instructions.

***Regular and short papers***

- Abstract submission: March 18, 2024
- Full paper submission: March 25, 2024
- 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