[iaoa-general] Final Announcement: SHAPES 2.0 - The Shape of Things, Uni

[Oliver Kutz <okutz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

SHAPES 2.0 - THE SHAPE OF THINGS 

www. http://cindy.informatik.uni-bremen.de/cosy/events/shapes2/

An Initiative of the:

Special Interest Group on Design Semantics. www.designsemantics.org

International Association for Ontology and its Application. www.iaoa.org

co-located with the World Congress and School on Universal Logic IV

March 29 - April 7, 2013 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

UniLog. http://www.uni-log.org/

PROGRAM: 

Keynotes, Research Presentations, Demos

- ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Oliver Kutz (University of Bremen, Germany)

Mehul Bhatt (University of Bremen, Germany)

Paulo Santos (Centro Universitario da FEI, Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Stefano Borgo (LOA, ISTC-CNR, Trento; KRDB Free University of Bolzano, Italy)

- SHAPES 2.0 PROCEEDINGS

Book of Abstracts

Download PDF: http://tinyurl.com/shapes-book-of-abstracts

Full Papers / Proceedings

forthcoming; see http://tinyurl.com/shapes-proceeding

- INVITED KEYNOTE TALKS:

1.  Prolegomena to an Ontology of Shape

- Antony Galton (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)

2. Lines, Shapes, and Meaning

- Barbara Tversky (Stanford University, and Columbia Teachers College, United States)

3. Blueprint for knot logics

- Roberto Casati (Institut Nicod, France)

4. Graph-based pattern recognition and applications

- Roberto M. Cesar Jr (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)

5. On Shape Poems and the Shape of Poems - A Computational Creativity Perspective

- Simon Colton (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)

- SHAPES 2.0 - CONTRIBUTED TALKS

6. Sketch Learning by Analogy        

- Ahmed Abdel-Fattah, Tarek Besold, Helmar Gust, Ulf Krumnack, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Martin Schmidt, Stefan Schneider, and Angela Schwering

7. The Shape of Empty Space

- Mehul Bhatt and Carl Schultz

8. A new Molyneux's problem: Sounds, shapes and arbitrary cross modal correspondences

- Ophelia Deroy

9. Structure, Similarity and Spaces

- Sandro Rama Fiorini, Mara Abel, and Peter Gärdenfors: 

10. Local Qualities, Quality Fields, and Quality Patterns

- Nicola Guarino

11. Shape Perception in Chemistry

- Janna Hastings, Colin Batchelor, and Mitsuhiro Okada

12. Shapes as property restrictions and property-based similarity

- Silvia Likavec

13. The Shape of Absolute Coincidences. Salmon's Interactive Fork Model as shape of coincidental processes

- Alessandra Melas

14. Representing numbers and figures in problem-solving activities in mathematics

- José Gustavo Morales and Matías Saracho

15. Shaping up: The Phenotypic Quality Ontology and Cross Sections

- Robert J. Rovetto

16. Dynamic Assembly of Figures in Visuospatial Reasoning

- Stefan Schneider, Ulf Krumnack, and Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

17. Declarative Computing with Shapes, and their Shadows

- Carl Schultz and Mehul Bhatt

18. Mental ``structures'' in the Berlin school of Gestalt Psychology: can sensation be described as ``structural''?

- Eric Tremault

19. Statistical Invariants of Spatial Form: From Local AND to Numerosity

- Christoph Zetzsche, Konrad Gadzicki and Tobias Kluth

- SPONSORSHIPS:

SHAPES 2.0 is generously sponsored by:

- CAPES - Brazilian Federal Agency; http://www.capes.gov.br/

- CNPq - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development; CNPq - http://www.cnpq.br/

- IAOA - International Association for Ontology and its Application; IAOA supported event (www.iaoa.org)

- ORGANIZING AND SUPPORTING INSTITUTIONS:

Spatial Cognition Research Center (SFB/TR 8), Universities of Bremen and Freiburg, Germany

Cognitive Systems (CoSy), University of Bremen, Germany

Centro Universitario da FEI, Sao Paulo, Brazil

LOA, ISTC-CNR, Trento; KRDB Free University of Bolzano, Italy

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