Common Semantics For Sharing Knowledge: Contributions To Iccs 2005: 13th International Conference On Conecptual Structures, Iccs 2005 Kassel, Germany, July 2005

Frithjof Dau, Marie-Laure Mugnier, Gerd Stumme (Eds.) Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge: Contributions to ICCS 2005 13th International Conference on Conecptual Structures, ICCS 2005 Kassel, Germany, July 2005 kassel university press Editors Frithjof Dau Technische Universität Darmstadt FB Mathematik, AG 1 Schloßgartenstr. 7 D-64289 Darmstadt Germany Marie-Laure Mugnier LIRMM (CNRS & University of Montpellier II) 161, rue ADA 34392 Montpellier Cedex 5 France Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/~dau Tel: (++49) (0)6151-163095 Fax: (++49) (0)6151-163317 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.lirmm.fr/~mugnier/ Tel: (++33) (0)67 41 85 39 Fax: (++33) (0)67 41 85 00 Gerd Stumme Universität Kassel Fachbereich Mathematik/Informatik Fachgebiet Wissensverarbeitung Wilhelmshöher Allee 73 34121 Kassel Germany Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/stumme Tel.: (++49) (0)561 804-6251 Fax.: (++49) (0)561 804-6259 Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationabibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the Internet at http://dnb.ddb.de ISBN 3-89958-138-5 URN urn:nbn:de:0002-1383 2005, kassel university press GmbH, Kassel www.upress.uni-kassel.de Cover: Bettina Brand Grafikdesign, München Printed in Germany by Unidruckerei der Universität Kassel Preface The 13th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2005) will be held in Kassel, Germany, during July 17–22, 2005. Information about the conference can be found at http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/conf/iccs05 . This volume consists of contributions complementing the main proceedings of ICCS 2005, entitled“Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge” (F. Dau, M.-L. Mugnier and G. Stumme (Eds.), LNAI 3596, Springer, 2005). The title “Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge” of this year’s conference was chosen to emphasize one hand the overall aim of any knowledge representation formalism: to support the sharing of knowledge; and on the other hand the importance of a common semantics to avoid distortion of the meaning. We understand that both aspects are of equal importance for a successful future of the research area of conceptual structures within the next years. We are thus happy that the papers presented at ICCS 2005 address both applications and theoretical foundations. “Sharing knowledge” can also be understood in a separate sense. Thanks to the German Research Foundation DFG we were able to invite nine internationally renowned researchers from adjacent research areas. We are looking forward to stimulating presentations and lively discussions, with the hope of bidirectional knowledge sharing. Eventually even the ground can be laid for establishing common semantics between the respective theories. We wish to express our appreciation to all the authors of submitted papers, to the members of the editorial board and the program committee, and to the external reviewers for making ICCS 2005 a valuable contribution to the knowledge processing research field. July 2005 Frithjof Dau Marie-Laure Mugnier Gerd Stumme Organization The International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) is the annual conference and principal research forum in the theory and practice of conceptual structures. Previous ICCS conferences have been held at the