2nd International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics (WSP I2005)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Second International Workshop on
PHILOSOPHY AND INFORMATICS (WSPI 2005)
April 10-13, 2005, Kaiserslautern (Germany)
http://wm2005.iese.fhg.de/workshop15-en.html
Paper submission deadline: September 3rd, 2004
The Second International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics is
organized by the Special Interest Group "Philosophy and Informatics" of
the German Informatics Society (Arbeitskreis "Philosophie und
Informatik"
der Gesellschaft für Informatik GI). You can find out more about the
SIG here: http://www.nt.fh-koeln.de/philosophyandinformatics/.
GOAL AND AIMS
The workshop encourages the trans-disciplinary discourse on
philosophical
foundations of Informatics, especially regarding the foundations of
Artificial Intelligence. The major goal of the workshop is to bring
researchers, scientists from both philosophy and informatics, and
representatives from different communities together to study,
understand,
and explore philosophical points of view and points of view in
informatics
in order to develop an interface between both disciplines. Steps to
build
a common vocabulary of philosophers and computer scientists should be
taken.
As a result, a common understanding on some of the topics mentioned
below
shall originate.
Besides paper presentations, this workshop offers organized and open
spaces
for targeted discussions. It aims at offering a forum for the
presentation
and discussion of new directions and interesting work in progress.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
In general, scientists from Philosophy, Informatics (Computer Science)
or
from related subjects with interest in a trans-disciplinary discourse on
foundations of Artificial Intelligence. The workshop is the annual
meeting
platform of the members of the SIG "Philosophy and Informatics".
WORKSHOP LANGUAGE
Submission languages are English (preferred) and German. The workshop
will
be held in English.
TOPICS
We are looking for contributions that propose new approaches or identify
conceptual problems addressing one or more of the following aspects:
* Relations between ontologies as a concept of Artificial Intelligence
and ontology as a philosophical discipline
* Epistemology and ontologies, ontologies and taxonomy
* Translation of ontologies
* The paradigm of domains: Problems of isolation (frame problem),
transfer problem ("Eigengesetzlichkeit" of domains), problems of
adaptation of logic (modal logic)
* Thinking ("Denken") vs. knowledge ("Wissen"), process vs. result:
associative vs. structural thinking; phenomenology, tacit or
implicit
knowledge
* Philosophical contributions to knowledge representation
* Semantics and knowledge representation
* Explanation and understanding
* Evaluation of knowledge: qualitative and quantitative aspects
* Individualization of knowledge
* Hierarchies of knowledge
* Knowledge in software (Question of reliability of programs,
knowledge, etc.)
* Philosophical aspects of knowledge management
* Philosophical aspects of context in informatics
* Realistic vs. idealistic modes of evaluation of ontology/ies-based
applications in informatics
SUBMISSIONS
This workshop solicits full research papers. Full papers (max. 8 pages)
discuss innovative problems from one of the areas sketched above.
Formatting
Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX and the Springer llncs
class files available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
While the pages in the final camera-ready form of a paper must be
unnumbered (this is the default in llncs style), numbered pages are
preferred for reviewing. Page numbering can be turned on using the LaTeX
command \pagestyle{plain}.
Please, mail a PDF version of your paper to
mailto:wspi2005@dfki.uni-kl.de.
Do not hesitate to contact us for further questions.
Workshop proceedings
It is intended to publish all accepted workshop contributions in a
joined conference proceedings volume within the series Lecture Notes
in Computer Science of Springer.
Review process
All submissions will be subject to review by the WSPI Program Committee.
The workshop organizers have final authority over the review process and
all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Review criteria include
originality of ideas, technical soundness, significance of results, and
quality of presentation. It is intended to have three reviews per
submission. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers
will be mailed to the corresponding author.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: September 3, 2004
Notification of acceptance: October 11, 2004
Camera-ready copy: November 22, 2004
Workshop: April 11.-13, 2005
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
The workshop schedule will be announced at the conference website.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Prof. Dr. Gregor Büchel, mailto:gregor.buechel@fh-koeln.de,
Fachhochschule Köln, Betzdorfer Str.2, 50679 Köln
Dipl.-Ing. Bertin Klein, mailto:bertin.klein@dfki.de,
DFKI GmbH, Erwin-Schrödinger-Str. 57, 67663 Kaiserslautern
Dr. Thomas Roth-Berghofer, mailto:trb@dfki.de,
TU Kaiserslautern / DFKI GmbH,
Erwin-Schrödinger-Str. 57, 67663 Kaiserslautern
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Stephan Baumann, Music Cognition Lab, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern,
Germany
Pierre Grenon, IFOMIS, University of Leipzig, Germany
Ruth Hagengruber, University of Koblenz and Landau, Germany
John D. Haynes, University of Central Florida, USA
Norbert Jastroch, MET Communications GmbH, Bad Homburg, Germany
Klaus Kornwachs, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus,
Germany
Jürgen Müller, University of Cooperative Education, Mannheim,
Germany
Steve Probert, Cranfield University, Swindon, United Kingdom
Michael M. Richter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France
Francis Rousseaux, IRCAM - Institut de Recherche et de Coordination
Acoustique Musique - Paris, France
Barry Smith, IFOMIS, University of Leipzig, Germany
Marcus Spies, University of Munich, Germany
Boris Wyssusek, Queens University of Technology, Australia
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