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mercoledì, maggio 13, 2009

Conference Announcement
(Please excuse multiple sendings) 
THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTER GAMES 2009

We are pleased to announce the fourth conference  on the Philosophy of Computer Games, to be held  in Oslo, Norway 13-15 August 2009.
The keynote speakers include Kendall Walton,  author of "Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the  Foundations of the Representational Arts"  (Harvard University Press, 1993), Miguel Sicart,  author of "The Ethics of Computer Games" (The MIT  Press, 2009) and Grant Tavinor, author of "The  Art of Video Games" (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming  in October 2009).


For the Call for Papers, registration and more details about the conference, please visit www.gamephilosophy.org.


Deadline for submission of abstracts is June 1.

The conference is a part of an effort to develop  discussions about philosophical issues that arise  in the study of computer games. The topics for  this years conference include fictionality,  definitions of computer games and ethical and political issues. 

The target audience is media researchers and  philosophers, but the conference is open to  anyone with with a professional interest in  computer games.
Nordic Game Research Network is organizing a  pre-conference workshop for Ph.d. students on  August 12.

With best regards 

Olav Asheim
Miguel Sicart
Frans Mäyrä
Patrick Coppock
Sten Ludvigsen
Ole Ertløv Hansen
Stephan Günzel
Rune Klevjer
John Richard Sageng
Ragnhild Tronstad


Organizational partners:


Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of  Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo, Norway  (Main conference host)
Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway
Digital Games Research Center, University of Potsdam, Germany
Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative  Science at the University of Modena & Reggio  Emilia, Italy
Nordic Game Research Network
Intermedia, University of Oslo, Norway
Games Research Lab, University of Tampere, Finland
Center for Computer Games Research at the IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Philosophical Project Centre, Oslo, Norway
Department of Information Science and Media  Studies, University of Bergen, Norway

lunedì, aprile 03, 2006

>CALL FOR PAPERS
>ECAI'2006 Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories
>
>Riva del Garda, Italy, August 28 or 29, 2006
>http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/ECAI2006-OM/call.html
>
>
>Knowledge Management (KM) is one of the key progress factors in
>organizations. It aims at capturing explicit and
>tacit knowledge of an organization in order to
>facilitate the access, sharing, and reuse of
>that knowledge as well as creation of new
>knowledge and organizational learning. KM must
>be guided by a strategic vision to fulfill its
>primary organizational objectives: improving
>knowledge sharing and cooperative work inside
>the organization; disseminating best practices;
>improving relationships with the external world;
>preserving past knowledge of the organization
>for reuse; improving the quality of projects and
>innovations; anticipating the evolution of the
>external environment; and preparing for
>unexpected events and managing urgency and crisis
>situations.
>
>One approach for KM consists of building a corporate memory or
>organizational memory (OM). Several techniques
>can be considered, according to the type of
>organization, its needs and its culture:
>knowledge-based approaches, document-based
>approaches, workflow-based approaches, CBR-based
>approaches, CSCW and cooperative approaches,
>ontology-based approaches, corporate Semantic
>Webs, Web-based
>approaches, agent-based approaches, distributed OMs, etc.
>
>Several scenarios of KM can be tackled through
>OMs: project memory, skills management,
>communities of practice, strategic or
>technological watch, e-learning, e-government,
>etc. The workshop aims at gathering researchers
>from multiple disciplines, industrial
>participants and students in order to discuss
>models, methodologies, techniques and
>application dealing with these scenarios and
>approaches.
>
>
>Papers are welcome in any area concerning knowledge management.
>Examples of interesting topics are:
>
>SCENARIOS FOR OMs :
>* Skill management
>* Project memory
>* Community memory
>* Strategic or technological watch, Business Intelligence
>* E-learning
>* E-government
>* Inter-organization cooperation
>* ?
>
>MODELS FOR KM and OMs:
>* Organizational dimensions of KM
>* Enterprise modelling and business process modelling
>* ?
>
>TECHNIQUES
>* Knowledge-based approaches
>* Document-based approaches
>* Workflow-based approaches
>* Process-oriented approaches
>* CBR-based approaches
>* CSCW and cooperative approaches
>* Ontology-based approaches
>* Corporate Semantic Webs
>* Web-based approaches
>* Agent-based approaches
>* Peer-to-peer approaches
>* Distributed approaches
>* ?
>
>APPLICATIONS
>* Design
>* Medical domain
>* Biology
>* Telecommunications
>* Aeronautics and space
>* Automobile
>* Building sector
>* ?
>
>
>Important dates
>
>Submission deadline:
>April 15, 2006
>Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2006
>Early registration deadline
>May 18, 2006
>Camera (Web)-ready: May 24, 2006
>Workshop: August 28-29, 2006
>
>
>Submission format
>
>Contributions are invited in the form of a full
>paper (max. 20 pages), following the formatting
>style for ECAI-2006 . The title page should
>include name, affiliation, and e-mail address of
>the contributor. Papers will be judged according
>to their contribution to the discussion. They
>should be submitted electronically (in
>PostScript or pdf) to
>OM2006@sophia.inria.fr
>The title, authors and list of keywords should
>also be sent in ascii by E-mail. The best papers
>will be published later in a book, as for the
>previous ECAI/IJCAI workshops on KM & OM from
>1999 to 2001.
>
>
>Remark: All workshop participants must register for ECAI-2006
>
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>
>
>Workshop organizing committee
>
>Jean Paul Barthss
>Address: University of Technology of Compiegne,
>Departement of Genie Informatique, BP.60319
>60203 Compisgne Cedex France
>E-mail: barthes@utc.fr
>
>
>Rose Dieng-Kuntz (co-chair)
>Address: INRIA Acacia Project, 2004 route des Lucioles, BP 93
>06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex FRANCE
>E-mail: Rose.Dieng@sophia.inria.fr <mailto:Rose.Dieng@sophia.inria.fr>
>
>Knut Hinkelmann
>Address: University of Applied Sciences Solothurn
>Riggenbachstrasse 16
>CH-4600 Olten
>Email: knut.hinkelmann@fhso.ch
>
>Ann Macintosh
>Address: International Teledemocracy Centre
>Napier University
>10 Colinton Road
>Edinburgh, EH10 5DT
>Email: A.Macintosh@napier.ac.uk
>
>Nada Matta (co-chair)
>Address: Universits de Technologie de Troyes (GSID/Tech-CICO)
>12, rue Marie Curie BP. 2060,
>10010 Troyes Cedex France
>E-mail:nada.matta@utt.fr
>
>Ulrich Reimer
>Adress: Business Operations Systems, Switzerland
>E-mail: Ulrich.Reimer@top-logic.com
>
>Carla Simone
>Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication
>University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy)
>E-mail: simone@di.unito.it
>
>
>Programme committee
>
>Andreas Abecker, DFKI, Germany (to be confirmed)
>Marie-Hslsne Abel, UTC
>Mark Ackerman, University of California, Irvine (USA) (to be
>confirmed)
>Klaus-Dieter Althoff (to be confirmed)
>Imed Boughzala (INT)
>Joost Breuker (Univ. Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
>S Buckingham Shum, Open University (UK) (to be confirmed)
>Jessica Chen-Burger, University of Edinburgh, UK
>Jeff Conklin, Corporate Memories systems (USA)
>John Debenham, University of Technology, (Sydney, Australia) (to
>be confirmed)
>Jean-Louis Ermine, CEA, (Paris, France)
>Fabien Gandon, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (France)
>Michel Grundstein, MG Conseil (France)
>Robert Jasper (USA) (to be confirmed)
>Gilles Kassel, LARIA, Amiens (France)
>Alain Lsger, France Telecom R&D
>Myriam Lewkowicz, Tech-CICO, UTT (Troyes, France)
>Alain Mille, Univ. Lyon (to be confirmed)
>Myriam Ribisre, Motorola (France)
>David G. Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) (to be confirmed)
>Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux, LAMSADE, Paris-Dauphine, (France)
>Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, (Germany)
>
>Manuel Zacklad, Tech-CICO, UTT (Troyes, France)

sabato, marzo 25, 2006


*** Call for Papers ***

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

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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.

Please submit your paper through http://extra.shu.ac.uk/cs-tiw2006. In
case you have any problems with the submission, or for any other
questions, please contact the workshop chairs at
cstiw06@starlab.vub.ac.be, 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

=== Invited Speaker

"Philosophy Meets Design"

. Gary Richmond, City University of New York, USA:

=== Program Chairs

. Aldo de Moor, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
(ademoor@vub.ac.be)

. Simon Polovina, Sheffield Hallam University, UK (S.Polovina@shu.ac.uk)

. Harry Delugach, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
(delugach@cs.uah.edu)

sabato, marzo 18, 2006

C A L L F O R P A P E R S

International Workshop on

Planning under Uncertainty and Execution Control for Autonomous Systems

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 17TH 2006!

June 6-10th, 2006: The English Lake District, Cumbria, United Kingdomn

Held in conjunction with ICAPS'06: 16th International Conference on
Automated Planning & Scheduling

-- Overview

The variety of autonomous systems is increasing both in industry and academia
(AUV, UGV, UAV, Robots, Space Probes), which addresses a broad range of
missions (space exploration, search and rescue, defense and
security,...). Such systems must operate with limited human intervention in a
changing environment and behave efficiently in spite of mission updates,
failure recovery or resource scheduling concerns. Recent experiences show
that simple planning and execution control techniques may endanger the system
when uncertain information or limited knowledge about the environment is
available. In order to achieve a consistent or optimized behavior, planning
and execution control problems, addressed separately in the past, have to be
solved in a combined and coordinated way. The environment being partially
known by an autonomous system, plan generation and execution must consider
uncertain information, biased data, unpredicted or contingent
events. Moreover, planning and execution control have to satisfy different
time scales, depending on mission, system and environment tempos. Lastly,
uncertainty may result from approximations at the planning level or unexpected
events may occur due to a lack of control. Various theoretical and practical
aspects of planning and execution control have been studied so far (Constraint
solving, combinatorial optimization, Markov decision processes, controllable
networks, Petri nets...). However, a broad range of hybrid algorithms,
architecture designs and alternative approaches may be explored during the
workshop.

-- Scope

This multi-disciplinary workshop invites submissions from researchers in
industry and academia. Submissions on planning and execution control
techniques as well as practical experiences with experimental or deployed
systems (including undersea, ground and aerospace systems ...) are
particularly encouraged. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

Planning, scheduling and execution control techniques with uncertain,
incomplete or biased data, temporal uncertainty, spatial uncertainty or
geolocalisation issues. Robust planning, scheduling and execution control.
Uncertainty and constraints in AI planning, constraint based models,
constraint solving for planning under uncertainty, constrained optimization
techniques and specific consistency management methods (model decomposition,
propagation algorithms, arc-consistency...). Search techniques for planning
under uncertainty, including anytime, online and continuous search; generic
versus domain specific heuristics; hybrid search techniques (local search,
branch and bound, binary searches, greedy algorithms, global search, repair,
.). Time-constrained and time-dependent search techniques. Hybridized
planning approaches: planning and scheduling, planning and execution,
scheduling and execution monitoring, energy-aware planning; planning and
control methods, including model-predictive or adaptive control. Planning
with domain constraints of activities (land, air, undersea, space and other
systems of interest with autonomous behaviors). Real-world applications in
various domains, including undersea, land, air and space. Decision theoretic
planning with uncertainty for autonomous systems. Probabilistic approaches,
Markov Decision Processes, Modeling with Bayesian networks. Planning in
multi-agent systems, including planning for cooperative/collaborative agents;
plan coordination under uncertainty; and robust distributed planning /
execution control / scheduling.

-- Format

The workshop format will consist of technical presentations based on accepted
papers, followed by a discussion session on each paper, led by an assigned
moderator. As for "Planning Under Uncertainty for Autonomous Systems (2005)",
a commentary process will be implemented inspired from the "Int. Workshop on
P&S of Space (2000)". This process allows authors to have relevant feedback on
the paper. This is also an excellent way to initiate discussions between
author and attendees. Position papers will be briefly presented.

-- Submissions

Submissions may be regular papers (10 pages) or short position papers (2
pages). Position papers should focus on relevance to application domain,
positioning, and innovative ideas. For all papers, the format should conform
to the AAAI style template. Papers will be reviewed by at least two referees.

Submissions, in PDF format only, should be sent by email to
mailto:christophe.guettier@sagem.com using the subject line ICAPS'06 Workshop
Submission.

All workshop attendees must be registered for ICAPS'06.

-- Important Dates

The schedule of important dates for the workshop is as follows:

Paper submission deadline 17 March 2006
Notification of acceptance 7 Avril 2006
Camera-ready version deadline 18 April 2006 (hard)
Workshop date 6-7 June 2006

Workshop Chair
Christophe Guettier
SAFRAN SA
Paris, France
christophe.guettier@sagem.com

Co-Chair :
Mark Boddy
Adventium Labs
USA
mark.boddy@adventiumlabs.org

-- Programme Committee
Roy Turner (University of Maine - USA)
Patrick Fabiani (ONERA, France)
Felix Ingrand (LAAS/CNRS, France)
Wheeler Ruml (Palo Alto Research Center, USA)
David Ferguson (Canergie Mellon University - USA)
Gerard Verfaillie (ONERA, France)
Eric Jacopin (CREC Saint-Cyr - France)
Neil Yorke Smith (SRI International, USA)
Mark Wallace (Monash University - Australia)
Abdel-Illah Mouaddib (Universite de Caen - France)
Alessandro Saffiotti (Orebro University - Sweden)
Mark Wallace (Monash University - Australia)
Russel Knight (Jet Propulsion Lab - USA)
Nicolas Meuleau (NASA Ames Research Center - USA)
--

Patrick J. Coppock
Researcher: Philosophy and Theory of Language
Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative Sciences
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia
Italy
phone: + 39 0522.522404 : fax. + 39 0522.522512
email: coppock.patrick@unimore.it
www: http://coppock-violi.com/work/
faculty: http://www.cei.unimore.it
the voice: http://morattiddl.blogspot.com

sabato, marzo 04, 2006

Dear colleagues
 
We are proud to invite you warmly to the First International Pragmatic Web Conference that will replace the LAP working conference this year with a much broader scope. We hope to see you in Stuttgart and to receive many submissions!
 
CALL FOR PAPERS
First International Pragmatic Web Conference (PragWeb 06)
21-23 September 2006, Stuttgart, Germany
The World Wide Web has been very successful in enabling information sharing among a seemingly unlimited number of people worldwide. The vast and ever-growing amount of documents on the Web, however, results in information overload and makes it often difficult to discover the information that is relevant, because the current Web is a syntactic web. The goal of the Semantic Web is thus to provide the basis for intelligent applications that enable more efficient information retrieval and use by not just providing a set of linked documents but a collection of knowledge repositories with meaningful content and additional logics.
The key elements of the Semantic Web are ontologies representing the basic conceptual knowledge about some domain. Ontologies are not fixed specifications but always depend on the context of use. Therefore, ontologies co-evolve with their communities of use. Members of a community have to negotiate continuously about what they agree to be their shared background. This is especially important in an (inter)organisational context, where participants from different professional, social, or cultural backgrounds need to understand each other in order to collaborate effectively.  In order to enable the use of the Web for communicating, agreeing upon, and cooperatively modifying ontologies, the support provided by the Semantic Web needs to be extended. The crucial questions are first how to model and analyze collaboration, context, organizational commitments, and meaning negotiation; second, how to use these conceptual models in the design and implementation of real-world tools and applications.

This new paradigm for effectively exploring and exploiting the potentials of the Web is called the Pragmatic Web. It constitutes the new challenge that will complement the Semantic Web. The goal is to augment human collaboration effectively by modelling and developing appropriate applications of the Semantic Web, such as systems for ontology negotiations or for ontology-based business interactions.

We call for contributions for the First International Pragmatic Web Conference dealing with  theoretical, methodological, and technological aspects of the Pragmatic Web as well as business, governmental, and other applications.

Topics include but are not limited to:


Theory, methods, and technologies
- Technology acceptance/media choice theories
- Language/action theory
- Evaluation methods
- Communication modelling methods
- Context modelling methods
- Semantic Web technologies
- Web services

Applications
- Organisational communication
- Collaboration
- Decision support
- Knowledge management
- Negotiation
- Community informatics
- Collaborative working environments
- Active knowledge systems
- Appropriate technologies
- E-business, E-government, E-politics, E-health etc.
- Information brokers and mediators

Invited Talk by Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK

Dates
Submission Deadline: 31 May 2006

Submissions to be sent to <pw06@wi1.uni-hohenheim.de>

Notification of Acceptance: 1 July 2006
Final Version: 1 August 2006
Conference: 21-23 September 2006

Conference Chairs
Mareike Schoop, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Aldo de Moor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
--  

Patrick J. Coppock
Researcher: Philosophy and Theory of Language
Department of Social, Cognitive and Quantitative Sciences
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia
Italy
phone: + 39 0522.522404 : fax. + 39 0522.522512
email:   coppock.patrick@unimore.it
www:  http://coppock-violi.com/work/
faculty:  http://www.cei.unimore.it
protesta:  http://morattiddl.blogspot.com