Conceptual Structures at Work

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Talks

   1. The Esthetic Grounding of Ordered Thought

      • Kelly Parker

      Pages 1-16

   2. Memes as Signs in the Dynamic Logic of Semiosis: Beyond Molecular Science and Computation Theory

      • Terrence W. Deacon

      Pages 17-30

   3. Graphics and Languages for the Flexible Modular Framework

      • John F. Sowa

      Pages 31-51

   4. Implicational Concept Graphs

      • Rudolf Wille

      Pages 52-61

   5. Types and Tokens for Logic with Diagrams

      • Frithjof Dau

      Pages 62-93

3. From Data to Conceptual Structures

   1. Concept-Based Data Mining with Scaled Labeled Graphs

      • Bernhard Ganter, Peter A. Grigoriev, Sergei O. Kuznetsov, Mikhail V. Samokhin

      Pages 94-108

   2. Iceberg Query Lattices for Datalog

      • Gerd Stumme

      Pages 109-125

   3. ‘Particles’ and ‘Waves’ as Understood by Temporal Concept Analysis

      • Karl Erich Wolff

      Pages 126-141

   4. A Void Type for Medical Language Disambiguation

      • Christian Jacquelinet

      Pages 142-155

   5. Clustering of Conceptual Graphs with Sparse Data

      • Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Julien Velcin

      Pages 156-169

4. Concept Lattices and Concept Graphs

   1. A Cartesian Closed Category of Approximable Concept Structures

      • Pascal Hitzler, Guo-Qiang Zhang

      Pages 170-185

   2. Implications in Triadic Formal Contexts

      • Bernhard Ganter, Sergei Obiedkov

      Pages 186-195

   3. Exploring Relational Structures Via \({\mathcal{F\!LE}}\)

      • Sebastian Rudolph

      Pages 196-212

   4. An Extension of the Theory of Information Flow to Semiconcept and Protoconcept Graphs

      • Grit Malik

      Pages 213-226

   5. Negation in Contextual Logic

      • Léonard Kwuida, Andreja Tepavčević, Branimir Šešelja

      Pages 227-241

5. Conceptual Frameworks for Applications

   1. Using Brandom’s Framework to Do Peirce’s Normative Science: Pragmatism as the Game of Harmonizing Assertions?

      • Mary Keeler

      Pages 242-260

   2. Improving the Testbed Development Process in Collaboratories

      • Aldo de Moor

      Pages 261-274

   3. Relation Elements for the Semantic Web

      • Cartik R. Kothari, David J. Russomanno

      Pages 275-286

   4. Poset Ontologies and Concept Lattices as Semantic Hierarchies

      • Cliff Joslyn

      Pages 287-302

This volume contains selected papers presented at the 12th International C- ference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2004, held in Huntsville Alabama, July 19–23, 2004. The main theme of the conference, “Conceptual Structures at Work”, was chosen to express our intention of applying conceptual structures for hum- centered practical purposes. That invites us to develop not only clear conceptual theories,butalsomethodstosupporthumansintheapplicationofthesetheories in their societies. Some promising steps in this direction are being taken, but the gap between the researchers working on a highly sophisticated level on one side and the practitioners in many ?elds of applications on the other side is usually di?culttobridge.Someofushaveexperiencesinsuchpracticalcooperation,but we need more members of our community to be engaged in “real life problems”. We all know that solutions of complex problems in practice require not only a well-developed formal theory, but also an understanding of the whole context of the given problems. To support our understanding we need general philo- phical methods as well as formal theories for the representation of fundamental structures in practice. We believe that our community has powerful tools and methodsforsuccessfulapplicationsinpractice,butthatwemustdevelopaforum to present our results to a broader audience. First we must understand the s- ni?cant developments in our own group, which has activities in many directions of research.

• Information
• UML models
• Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• calculus
• cognition
• cognitive science
• cognitive technologies
• computational linguistics
• concept graphs
• contextual logic
• formal methods
• knowledge representation
• logic
• ontology
• semantic web
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

• Mathematics and Science Faculty, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany

  Karl Erich Wolff

• New Mexico State University,  

  Heather D. Pfeiffer

• Computer Science Department, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville

  Harry S. Delugach

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