Conceptual Structures: Standards and Practices 7th International
With all of the news about the Internet and the Y2K problem, it is easy to forget that other areas of computer science still exist. Reading the newspaper or watching the television conveys a very warped view of what is happening in computer science. This
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen
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William Tepfenhart Walling Cyre (Eds.)
Conceptual Structures: Standards and Practices 7th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS'99 Blacksburg, VA, USA, July 12-15, 1999 Proceedings
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jorg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbriicken, Germany
Volume Editors William M. Tepfenhart Software Engineering Department, Monmouth University West Long Branch, NJ 07764-1898, USA E-mail", [email protected] Walling Cyre Virginia Tech, Automatic Design Research Group The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA E-mail: [email protected] Cataloging-in-Publication data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIF-Einheitsau&ahme Conceptual structures : standards and practices, proceedings / 7th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS "99, Blacksburg, VA, USA, My 12 - IS, 1999. William M. Tepfenhart ; Walling Cyre (ed.). -Berlin ; Heidelberg; New York; Barcelona; Hong Kong; London; Milan; Paris; Singapore; Tokyo: Springer, 1999 (Lectiure notes in computer science ; Vol. 1640 : Lecture notes in artificial intelligence) ISBN 3-540-66223-5
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Preface With all of the news about the Internet and the Y2K problem, it is easy to forget that other areas of computer science still exist. Reading the newspaper or watching the television conveys a very warped view of what is happening in computer science. This conference illustrates how a maturing subdiscipline of computer science can continue to grow and integrate within it both old and new approaches despite (or perhaps due to) a lack of public awareness. The conceptual graph community has basically existed since the 1984 publication of John Sowa's book, "Conceptual Structures: Information Processing In Mind and Machine." In this book, John Sowa laid the foundations for a knowledge representation model called conceptual graphs based on semantic networks and the existential
