ICCS 2011
Conference delegates training with the Derbyshire County Cricket Club
I had the chance to exchange ideas, meet new people and learn something new. The conference was an excellent experience.
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The School of Computing and Mathematics recently hosted the 19th annual International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2011). It was the latest in a series of annual conferences that have been held in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America since 1993.
About ICCS
The focus of the conferences has been the representation and analysis of conceptual knowledge for research and business applications. The ICCS brings together researchers in information technology, arts, humanities and social science from across the world to explore novel ways that can conceptual structures can be employed in information systems.
Arising originally out of the work of IBM in Conceptual Graphs, over the years ICCS has broadened its scope to include a wider range of theories and practices, among them Formal Concept Analysis, Description Logics, the Semantic Web, the Pragmatic Web, Ontologies, Multi-agent Systems, Concept Mapping, and more. Accordingly conceptual structures represent a family of approaches that builds on the successes of artificial intelligence, business intelligence, computational linguistics, conceptual modelling, information and web technologies, user modelling, and knowledge management.
ICCS 2011 theme
"Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge"
More and more data is being captured in electronic format (particularly through the web) and it is emerging that this data is reaching such a critical mass that it is becoming the most recorded form of the world around us.
It now represents our business, economic, arts, social, and scientific endeavours to such an extent that we require smart applications that can discover the hitherto hidden knowledge that this mass of data is busily capturing. By bringing together the way computers work with the way humans think, conceptual structures align the productivity of computer processing with the ingenuity of individuals and organisations in a meaningful digital future.
ICCS 2011 Conference overview
The week long conference began with a variety of workshops around aspects of Conceptual Structures. Some of the workshops that took place were:
- International Workshop on the Concept Formation and Extraction in Under-Traversed Domains (CFEUTD-2011)
- The 2nd Conceptual Structures - Learning, Teaching and Assessment (CS-LTA) Workshop
- International Workshop on Task Specific Information Retrieval (TSIR-2011)
- The 1st CUBIST Workshop
- The 5th Conceptual Structures Tool Interoperability Workshop.
The conference also included a variety of guest speakers, a prestigious conference dinner and even a training session with the Derbyshire County Cricket Club.
