Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Association for Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis of the Russian Federation

II^nd All–Russian Conference “Knowledge - Ontology - Theory” (KONT-09)
with international participation
20–22 October, 2009 
Novosibirsk

First Announcement and Call for Papers

The focus of the conference is mathematical methods of data representation, data mining, construction of subject domains theories, Formal Concept Analysis, as well as methods of information extraction from texts in natural language.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. We also plan to publish selected papers in a special issue of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
Conference topics reflect the main stages of knowledge discovery process:

- Data collection and pre-processing. Measuring. Accumulation of facts. Generation of preliminary description. Creation of empirical hypotheses. 

- Discovering of regularities (knowledge) hidden in structured and unstructured data. Machine learning. Pattern recognition. Forecasting. Inductive reasoning (from numerical tables, signals, images, natural language texts, etc.).

- Systematization of knowledge. Knowledge engineering. Generation of subject domain ontologies: technologies, applications.

- Generation of subject domain theories. Formal Concept Analysis. Logical semantics of natural language. Fuzzy logic. Description of basic elements of a theory: axioms, hypotheses, general models, methods of analysis and synthesis.

Conference Program Committee:

Chair: Zhuravlev Y. I., Full Member of the RAS 
Co-Chairs: Prof. D. E. Palchunov and Prof. N. G. Zagoruiko

Ablamejko S. V. (Minsk, Belarus)
Cheremisina E. N. (Dubna, Russia)
Fedotov A. M. (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Gavrilova T. A. (S.-Petersburg, Russia)
Gladun V. P. (Kiev, Ukraine)
Ganter B. (Dresden, Germany)
Herre H. (Leipzig, Germany)
Kalinichenko L. I. (Moscow, Russia)
Kleschov A. S. (Vladivostok, Russia)
Kolchanov N. A. (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Kovalerchuk B. (Seattle, USA)
Kuznetsov S. O. (Moscow, Russia)
Lbov G. S. (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Marchuk A. G. (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Samokhvalov K. F. (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Sviridenko D. I. (Moscow, Russia)
Tarasenko Ph. P. (Tomsk, Russia)
Tselishchev V. V. (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Vasiljev S. N. (Moscow, Russia)
Vityaev E. E. (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Wolff K. E. (Darmstadt, Germany)
Zagorulko Yu. A. (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Zelger J. (Innsbruck, Austria)

Organizing Committee:

The conference is planned to consist of plenary and session presentations, and discussions on chosen topics. Working languages are Russian and English.

Online registration

For registering, please visit http://math.nsc.ru/conference/zont09/reg_engl.htm, fill and send us the form.

Submission details

Papers (up to 10 p. in PDF format) have to be submitted via email zont2009@math.nsc.ru, with subject “thesis”, or via EasyChair system (www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kont09).

Important dates

Abstract submission (papers and presentations):   May 15, 2009
Notification of papers acceptance/rejection:          May 30, 2009
Conference:                                                    October 20–22, 2009

Conference fee

The conference fee in the amount of 500 rubles/person (~11€) should be paid in cash upon arrival at the conference. Students and post-graduate students are exempted from payment.
Sufficient hotels are available in Academgorodok and Novosibirsk.

Contacts: zont2009@math.nsc.ru