MIS '05 - Call for participation

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• Esbjerg, Denmark
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• What is metainformatics?
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Call for Participation

Fourth International Metainformatics Symposium (MIS 2005)

Esbjerg, Denmark, 08-11 November 2005

ukwiil@mip.sdu.dk -- http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~ukwiil/mis05

Metainformatics is a deliberately evocative title for a nascent community concerned with finding common ground shared by researchers and practitioners in many different computer science areas, who may use similar methods to achieve different ends. There is interest in finding useful abstractions, notations, analytical frameworks, formalisms, and systems that improve our understanding of the underlying structure of various disciplines and families of systems within Computer Science. Ideally these constructs should have utility in conveying knowledge and understanding across disciplinary boundaries.

A focus of metainformatics is the discovery, analysis, representation, and manipulation of structure, broadly conceived. For a wide spectrum of {X}, we wish to know, what is the structure of {X}? What is the set of models that can be used to represent this structure? What are the tradeoffs among these structure modeling mechanisms? What systems can model and represent these structures?

Some existing work exemplifies the metainformatic approach:

• The structure of programming languages can be loosely viewed as combining syntactic and semantic elements, with various formalisms available for representing each aspect.

• The process of domain analysis, as practiced in Software Engineering to produce families of software systems, can be viewed as describing important aspects of the structure of a domain of software systems. Domain analyses include vocabulary, requirements, architectural breakdowns, and detailed designs of the program family. These domain analyses can be used by people outside the domain to better understand the domain, and compare it with other domains.

• In the hypertext community, structural computing is an approach dedicated to creating systems for the explicit representation of structures of links, and has been applied to information systems representing biological taxonomy, and networks of word meanings (WordNets).

We actively solicit participation from other researchers interested in extending this metainformatic approach to other disciplines.

Topics

Below is a partial list of topics for submissions. Special consideration will be given to submissions that are multidisciplinary, and explicitly explore the structure of a particular discipline, or system.

Format

The symposium will be structured somewhat differently than many traditional conferences by scheduling sessions intended to foster dialog within small groups of researchers in addition to plenary sessions to stress unifying themes. There will be ample opportunity for in-depth discussions to follow up on ideas presented at larger sessions, as well as several informal gatherings to help foster a sense of community in this new area.

Submissions

All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. Accepted full papers and short papers will be published in an LNCS volume.

Submissions may have the following forms:

Short paper:

3-5 page discussion of an original research contribution

Full paper:

7-20 page discussion of an original research contribution.

Submissions details can be found online at: http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~ukwiil/mis05/sub.html.

IMPORTANT DATES

Sponsors

• University of Southern Denmark
• Aalborg Universitet Esbjerg, Denmark

Organizing Committee

Uffe K. Wiil, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Peter J. Nürnberg, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark
David L. Hicks, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark