CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Session on Conceptual Lattices for Software Systems Engineering (LATTICE)
in conjunction with
The 30th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE2018)

Conceptual Lattices have been extensively studied as part of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) in a variety of fields by German researchers led by the initiative of Rudolf Wille, in a seminal paper of 1982. Conceptual Lattices were based upon Lattice algebraic structures. The first papers on Modular Lattices were written by the German mathematician Richard Dedekind around 1900. These concepts were substantially developed as an abstract algebra theory by the American mathematician Garrett Birkhoff and published as a monograph in 1940.

Conceptual Lattices have appeared as an application to Software Engineering from 1990 onwards. They have been used, to analyze software specification, reengineer legacy code, perform code inspection, analyze the modularity of software systems, e.g. by Godin, Lindig, Snelting, Kuipers, Dekel, Tilley, Arévalo and Mens, among others.

Recently, Exman and Speicher have been investigating the relationships between two kinds of algebraic representations of software systems, viz. on the one hand, Modularity and Laplacian matrices, and on the other hand, Conceptual Lattices. Some interesting results have been obtained, but the subject still offers many challenging questions.

Conceptual Lattices have been also used, besides in Software Engineering, for Knowledge Processing in a variety of applications, such as bioinformatics. Here we wish in particular to emphasize diverse aspects of ontology engineering, as these raise intriguing open issues on the relationships between conceptual lattices and ontologies.

This special session, first overviews the current Conceptual Lattices research status, especially for software systems engineering. Then, it will enable open discussions of novel modern approaches to Software Theory involving Conceptual Lattices.

Researchers and practitioners working in areas relevant to Software Theory and Conceptual Lattices are invited to submit papers describing their research and experimental work, including but not restricted to the following topics:

Submission:

Papers must be written in English. An electronic version (Postscript, pdf, or MS Word format) of the full paper should be submitted to the conference using the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seke2018 (submission website will be open after January 1, 2018). Please use Internet Explorer as the browser. Manuscript must include a 200-word abstract and no more than 6 pages of 2-column formatted Manuscript for Conference Proceedings (include figures and references but exclude copyright form). The title of your paper should have (LATTICE) at the end, for example, "Comparative Study of Knowledge Software Models (LATTICE)".

Papers accepted by SEKE2018 must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. This is a pre-condition for your paper to be further considered for publication in a special issue in IJSEKE on LATTICE. The revised version must have about 40% additional content compared to the conference paper.

SEKE Software Theory Special Sessions

The purpose of these special sessions, to be held annually within the SEKE Conferences, is to bring specific research areas of Software Theory to the attention of the conference audience. In each year there will be a different research area as the focus of the Software Theory Special Session. These sessions aim to provide an up-to-date review of the field by experts' invited lectures in the chosen research area and enabling lively discussions of current research, presented by authors of contributed papers.

Organizers:

Iaakov Exman, The Jerusalem College of Engineering, JCE-Azrieli, Jerusalem, Israel
Daniel Speicher, University of Bonn, B-IT, Bonn, Germany

For Enquiries Please Contact:

Prof. Iaakov Exman
Email: iaakov@jce.ac.il