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Conceptual Structures for Knowledge Creation and Communication 11th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2003 Dresden, Germany, July 21-25, 2003 Proceedings

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editors Aldo de Moor Tilburg University Infolab, Dept. of Information Systems and Management P.O.Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] Wilfried Lex Technische Universit¨at Clausthal Institut f¨ur Informatik Julius-Albert-Str.4, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Bernhard Ganter Technische Universit¨at Dresden Institut f¨ur Algebra 01062 Dresden, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek. Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the Internet at .

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Preface

This volume contains the proceedings of ICCS 2003, the 11th International Conference on Conceptual Structures. This conference series continues to be the main forum for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art research on conceptual structures. The theories, methodologies, and techniques presented here have grown considerably in scope in recent years. On the other hand, solid bridges spanning the boundaries between such diverse fields as Conceptual Graphs, Formal Concept Analysis, and others are increasingly being built in our community. The theme of this year’s conference was “Conceptual Structures for Knowledge Creation and Communication”. In our increasingly (Inter)networked world,