Conceptual Structures at Work: 12th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2004, Huntsville, AL, USA, July 19-23, 2004. Proceedings

Kelly Parker (auth.), Karl Erich Wolff, Heather D. Pfeiffer, Harry S. Delugach (eds.)3540223924, 9783540223924, 9783540277699

This volume contains selected papers presented at the 12th International C- ference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2004, held in Huntsville Alabama, July 19–23, 2004. The main theme of the conference, “Conceptual Structures at Work”, was chosen to express our intention of applying conceptual structures for hum- centered practical purposes. That invites us to develop not only clear conceptual theories,butalsomethodstosupporthumansintheapplicationofthesetheories in their societies. Some promising steps in this direction are being taken, but the gap between the researchers working on a highly sophisticated level on one side and the practitioners in many ?elds of applications on the other side is usually di?culttobridge.Someofushaveexperiencesinsuchpracticalcooperation,but we need more members of our community to be engaged in “real life problems”. We all know that solutions of complex problems in practice require not only a well-developed formal theory, but also an understanding of the whole context of the given problems. To support our understanding we need general philo- phical methods as well as formal theories for the representation of fundamental structures in practice. We believe that our community has powerful tools and methodsforsuccessfulapplicationsinpractice,butthatwemustdevelopaforum to present our results to a broader audience. First we must understand the s- ni?cant developments in our own group, which has activities in many directions of research.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
The Esthetic Grounding of Ordered Thought….Pages 1-16
Memes as Signs in the Dynamic Logic of Semiosis: Beyond Molecular Science and Computation Theory….Pages 17-30
Graphics and Languages for the Flexible Modular Framework….Pages 31-51
Implicational Concept Graphs….Pages 52-61
Types and Tokens for Logic with Diagrams….Pages 62-93
Concept-Based Data Mining with Scaled Labeled Graphs….Pages 94-108
Iceberg Query Lattices for Datalog….Pages 109-125
‘Particles’ and ‘Waves’ as Understood by Temporal Concept Analysis….Pages 126-141
A Void Type for Medical Language Disambiguation….Pages 142-155
Clustering of Conceptual Graphs with Sparse Data….Pages 156-169
A Cartesian Closed Category of Approximable Concept Structures….Pages 170-185
Implications in Triadic Formal Contexts….Pages 186-195
Exploring Relational Structures Via ${mathcal{F!LE}}$ ….Pages 196-212
An Extension of the Theory of Information Flow to Semiconcept and Protoconcept Graphs….Pages 213-226
Negation in Contextual Logic….Pages 227-241
Using Brandom’s Framework to Do Peirce’s Normative Science: Pragmatism as the Game of Harmonizing Assertions?….Pages 242-260
Improving the Testbed Development Process in Collaboratories….Pages 261-274
Relation Elements for the Semantic Web….Pages 275-286
Poset Ontologies and Concept Lattices as Semantic Hierarchies….Pages 287-302
Concept Types and Coreference in Simple Conceptual Graphs….Pages 303-318
An Exportable CGIF Module from the CP Environment: A Pragmatic Approach….Pages 319-332
Using Conceptual Graphs to Represent Agent Semantic Constituents….Pages 333-345
Improving Generalization Level in UML Models Iterative Cross Generalization in Practice ….Pages 346-360
KNAML: A Knowledge Representation Language for Distributed Reasoning….Pages 361-374
Interoperability of Ontologies Using Conceptual Graph Theory….Pages 375-387
A Priorean Approach to Time Ontologies….Pages 388-401
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