CfP 1. International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics

Call for Papers

First International Workshop on
Philosophy and Informatics

Cologne (Germany), 31. March - 1. April 2004

Target Groups

Scientists from Philosophy, Computer Science (Informatics) or from related subjects with interest in a trans-disciplinary discourse on foundations of Artificial Intelligence.

Submission languages are English and German. The workshop will be held in English.

Goals

This workshop will be the first meeting of the SIG "Philosophy and Informatics" founded as part of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik GI).

The workshop should encourage the trans-disciplinary discourse on foundations of Artificial Intelligence. In this discourse, Interfaces between philosophical points of view and points of view in informatics in should be discussed. First steps to build a common vocabulary of philosophers and computer scientists should be taken.

Topics

We are looking for contributions that propose new approaches or identify conceptual problems with one of the following aspects:

Relations between ontologies as a concept of Artificial Intelligence and ontology as a philosophical discipline
Epistemology and ontologies, ontologies and taxonomy
The paradigm of domains: Problems of isolation (frame problem), transfer problem ("Eigengesetzlichkeit" of domains), problems of adaptation of logic (modal logic)
Thinking ("Denken") vs. knowledge ("Wissen"), process vs. result: Propositional vs. non-propositional knowledge, associative vs. structural thinking
Semantics and knowledge representation
Phenomenology, tacit or implicit knowledge
Philosophical aspects of knowledge management
Evaluation of knowledge: qualitative and quantitative aspects
Individualisation of knowledge

Submissions

This workshop solicits full research papers and statements of interest.

Full papers (max. 8 pages) discuss innovative problems from one of the areas sketched above.
Statements of interest (max. 1 page) should describe the motivation of a workshop participant, his background, proposed questions and/or expected results.

Members of the program committee will review all research papers.

Formatting

Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX and the Springer llncs class files available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. While the pages in the final camera-ready form of a paper must be unnumbered (this is the default in llncs style), numbered pages are preferred for reviewing. Page numbering can be turned on using the LaTeX command \pagestyle{plain}

Please, mail a PDF version of your paper to Thomas.Roth-Berghofer@dfki.uni-kl.de and do not hesitate to contact him for questions.

Workshop Proceedings

We plan to publish the accepted papers as CEUR workshop proceedings at www.ceur-ws.org.

Important dates

5. December 2003: Submission deadline for workshop papers
23. January 2004: Notification of acceptance
20. February 2004: Deadline for final camera-ready copy of workshop papers

Workshop Schedule

The schedule will be published on the SIG Philosophy and Informatics Homepage http://www.nt.fh-koeln.de/philosophyandinformatics/.

Workshop organizers

Prof. Dr. Gregor Büchel, mailto:Gregor.Buechel@fh-koeln.de
Fachhochschule Köln, Betzdorfer Str.2, 50679 Köln, Germany

Dipl.-Ing. Bertin Klein, mailto:Bertin.Klein@dfki.de
DFKI GmbH, Postfach 2080, 67608 Kaiserslautern, Germany

Dr. Thomas Roth-Berghofer, mailto:Thomas.Roth-Berghofer@dfki.uni-kl.de
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern / DFKI GmbH, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

Program committee

Daniela Bailer-Jones, University of Bonn, Germany
Thomas Börnchen, Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Pierre Grenon, IFOMIS, University of Leipzig, Germany
Ruth Hagengruber, University of Koblenz and Landau, Germany
John D. Haynes, University of Central Florida, USA
Norbert Jastroch, MET Communications GmbH, Bad Homburg, Germany
Jürgen Müller, University of Cooperative Education, Mannheim, Germany
Michael Paetau, University of Essen, Germany
Steve Probert, Cranfield University, Swindon, United Kingdom
Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France
Francis Rousseaux, IRCAM - Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique Musique – Paris, France
Steve Russ, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Barry Smith, IFOMIS, University of Leipzig, Germany
Marcus Spies, University of Munich, Germany
Boris Wyssusek, Technical University Berlin, Germany

First International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics