Call for papers

2nd International Joint Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures (CONCEPTS 2025)

Cluj-Napoca, România- September, 8th-12th, 2025

https://concepts2025.conference.ubbcluj.ro/

29th Intl. Conf. on Conceptual Structures (ICCS)

19th Intl. Conf. on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA)

18th Intl. Conf. on Concept Lattices and their Applications (CLA)

CONCEPTS, the International Conference on Conceptual Knowledge Structures is a merger of the three conferences CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA, which have been essential venues for researchers and practitioners working on theoretical and applied aspects of formal concept analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge, as well as closely related areas, such as data mining, information retrieval, knowledge management, and discovery.

CONCEPTS 2025, the second conference in this new series, aims to continue the tradition and standards of previous conferences and to become a key annual meeting for all members of the three communities, CLA, ICCS, and ICFCA, to keep abreast of the advances and new challenges in the field.

TOPICS AND SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

Main topics include but are not limited to:

Fundamental aspects of Formal Concept Analysis (e.g., FCA theory, concept lattices, algorithms and computational complexity)
Conceptual graphs, graph-based models for human reasoning
Knowledge spaces and learning spaces
Fuzzy, relational, and/or triadic conceptual structures
Conceptual knowledge acquisition, management, exploration, analysis and/or visualization
Probabilistic or approximative approaches to conceptual knowledge
Bridging conceptual structures to information sciences, artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, database theory, software engineering, and other areas of computer science
Ontologies, semantic web, knowledge graphs, in particular their relation to conceptual knowledge structures such as concept lattices and conceptual graphs.
Conceptual structures in natural language processing and linguistics
Understanding real-world data and modeling real-world phenomena with conceptual structures (e.g., applications in digital humanities, cybersecurity, biology, medicine, social network analysis)
Psychology, philosophy, and conceptual structures

Submission details:

Submissions are invited on significant, original (previously unpublished) research on the topics of the conference:

All submissions will be subject to single-blind peer review. Accepted papers have to be presented at the conference on-site. Therefore, at least one author per paper has to register timely and attend the conference on-site.

Important dates and submission instructions:

JOURNAL-TRACK SUBMISSIONS:

Manuscripts must be submitted via the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning online submission system (Editorial Manager®):

https://www.editorialmanager.com/ija/default2.aspx

Please select the article type “VSI: CONCEPTS 2025” when submitting your manuscript online.

Regular and short papers

Submission link: https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/concepts2025

Please select the appropriate category for your submitted manuscript, “regular paper” or “short paper.” Please visit the page Information for authors on Springer’s website for templates and formatting style.