Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge 19th Internation
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2011, held in Derby, UK, in July 2011. The 18 full papers and 4 short papers presented together with 12 workshop papers were carefully reviewed and s
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Simon Andrews Simon Polovina Richard Hill Babak Akhgar (Eds.)
Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge 19th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2011 Derby, UK, July 25-29, 2011 Proceedings
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Simon Andrews Simon Polovina Babak Akhgar Sheffield Hallam University 153 Arundel St., Sheffield, S1 2NU, UK E-mail: {s.andrews;s.polovina;b.akhgar}@shu.ac.uk Richard Hill University of Derby Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 1GB, UK E-mail: [email protected]
ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-22687-8 e-ISBN 978-3-642-22688-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-22688-5 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011932224 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.2, I.5, I.2.7, I.2.4, F.4.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence
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Preface
This volume contains the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2011), the latest in a series of annual conferences that have been held in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America since 1993. Details of these events are available at www.conceptualstructures.org, and www.iccs.info points to the latest conference in this prestigious series. ICCS focuses on the useful representation and analysis of conceptual knowledge with research and business applications. It brings together some of the world’s best minds in information technology, arts, humanities, and social science to explore novel ways that information and communication technologies can leverage tangible business or social benefits. This is because conceptual structures (CS) harmonize the creativity of humans with the productivity of computers. CS recognizes that organizations work w
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