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*** 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)