Conceptual Structures 2019

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, which grew out of the International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2019), focuses on the formal analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge, at the crossroads of artificial intelligence, human cognition, computational linguistics, and related areas of computer science and cognitive science. Recently, graph-based knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) paradigms are getting more and more attention. With the rise of quasi-autonomous AI, graph-based representations provide a vehicle for making machine cognition explicit to its human users. Conversely, graphical and graph-based models can provide a rigorous way of expressing intuitive notions in computable frameworks. The aim of the ICCS 2019 conference is to build upon its long-standing expertise in graph-based KRR and focus on providing modeling, formal, and application results of graph-based systems.

The Special Issue welcomes contributions from a modeling, application, and theoretical viewpoint:

• Modeling results will investigate concrete real world needs for graph-based representation, for example (but not exclusively) how human cognition can be mapped onto and facilitated by graphical representations, how certain use cases are of interest to the graph community, how using graphs can bring added (business) value, what kind of graph representation is needed for a given case, etc.;
• Papers reporting on application experience will be expected to demonstrate the benefits of the graph-based proposed solutions in the context of the use case studied. Where appropriate, the graph-based solutions are compared to other possible solutions;
• Technical results will include fundamental graph theory based results for novel structures for representation, extensions of existing structures for added expressivity, conciseness, optimization algorithms for reasoning, reasoning explanation, etc.

Prof. Dr. Dominik Endres
Dr. Mehwish Alam
Dr. Diana Florina Sotropa
Guest Editors

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