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Conceptual Structures Tool Interoperability Workshop (CS-TIW 2007)
In conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2007)
July 22, 2007, Sheffield University, United Kingdom
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.
Our speaker will be Aldo de Moor (bio below), who will be speaking on The Pragmatic Evaluation of Tool System Interoperability. We are very excited to have Aldo speak as he was one of the first co-program chairs for this workshop and has a large amount of knowledge on the interoperation of systems. This should be a very interesting and valuable talk.
Aldo de Moor
Aldo (ademoor AT communitysense DOT nl) is the owner of CommunitySense, www.communitysense.nl, a research consultancy firm on community informatics. In 1999, he got his Ph.D. in Information Management from Tilburg University, the Netherlands. From 1999-2004, he was an assistant professor at Infolab, Dept. of Information Systems and Management, Tilburg University. In 2005-2006, he was a senior researcher at the Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Aldo's research interests include the evolution of virtual communities, communicative workflow modeling, argumentation support technologies, Language/Action theory, conceptual graph theory, and ontology-guided meaning negotiation. Aldo has been a visiting researcher at the University of Guelph, Canada, and the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Aldo has been Program Co-Chair of the International Conference on Conceptual Structures, the Language/Action Perspective Working Conference on Communication Modeling, and the Pragmatic Web Conference. He has been involved in many projects, including the development of the GRASS group report authoring support system, the MeMo business negotiation support system, the METIS knowledge management measurement approach, and DOGMA-MESS, a community-driven meaning negotiation layer on top of STARLab’s ontology engineering framework DOGMA. Key publications have appeared in journals like Communications of the ACM, Information Systems, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Group Decision and Negotiation, and Information Systems Frontiers.
In the afternoon, this workshop will have a panel featuring:
that will present a challenge to the whole tool community for ICCS'08. Come and learn the specifics!
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?
| Paper submission deadline (extended): | call for papers closed. |
| Acceptance notification: | notifications have been made. |
| Paper final version due: | Sunday, June 3, 2007 |
| Workshop: | Sunday, July 22, 2007 |
Contact hdp AT cs DOT nmsu DOT edu, or the workshop organizers directly for any additional information.
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