List,
Some may be interested in the following announcement of a Tool
Interoperability Workshop to be held in conjunction with the 2006 ICCS
conference at Aalborg University, Denmark.
Gary
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
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
Both contributions with a theoretical and a practical focus welcome. Papers are limited to 14 pages in Springer's LNCS format. For more details see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs.
See http://www.iccs-06.hum.aau.dk/tools.htm for the submission procedure. In
case you have any problems with the submission, or for any other questions,
please contact the workshop chairs at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or through their
individual e-mail addresses.
Papers will be reviewed for adherence to the workshop scope and quality by the
chairs and additional reviewers. Accepted papers will be published in a
separate ISBN-numbered proceedings by Aalborg University Press. If accepted,
the paper must be presented at the workshop.
In addition to the papers, a CD with tools, data, documentation and other
relevant material will be made available. Authors are encouraged to provide
such material with their accepted submissions.
* Dates
• Paper submission deadline: Sunday, April 9, 2006
• Acceptance notification: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
• Paper final version due: Sunday, May 28, 2006
• Additional CD materials due: Sunday, June 25, 2006
• Workshop: Sunday, July 16, 2006
* Program Chairs
• Aldo de Moor, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium ([EMAIL
PROTECTED])
• Simon Polovina, Sheffield Hallam University, UK ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
• Harry Delugach, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA ([EMAIL
PROTECTED])
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