Conceptual Structures for STEM Research and Education 20th Inter

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2013, held in Mumbai, India, in January 2013. The 22 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions for inclusion in

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LNAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

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Heather D. Pfeiffer Dmitry I. Ignatov Jonas Poelmans Nagarjuna Gadiraju (Eds.)

Conceptual Structures for STEM Research and Education 20th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2013 Mumbai, India, January 10-12, 2013 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 Heather D. Pfeiffer Akamai Physics, Inc., Las Cruces, NM 88005, USA Email: [email protected] Dmitry I. Ignatov National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow 109028, Russia E-mail: [email protected] Jonas Poelmans Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium E-mail: [email protected] Nagarjuna Gadiraju Tata Institute of Fundamental Reseach Mumbai 400088, India E-mail: [email protected]

ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-35785-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-35786-2

e-ISSN 1611-3349 e-ISBN 978-3-642-35786-2

Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012954289 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.3-4, I.2.6, I.2.8, G.2.2, H.2.4, H.2.8, H.3.4, I.5.4, I.5.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface

This volume contains the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2013), 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 current 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 s