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Diagrams 2000 -
An International Conference
on the Theory and Application of Diagrams
September 1-3, 2000
University of Edinburgh
in cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI)
Diagrams 2000
is the first event in a new interdisciplinary conference series on the
Theory and Application of Diagrams.
Driven by the pervasiveness of diagrams in human communication and by
the increasing availability of graphical environments in computerised
work, the study of diagrammatic notations is emerging as a research
field in its own right. This development has simultaneously taken
place in several scientific disciplines, including, amonst others:
cognitive science, artificial intelligence and computer
science. Consequently, a number of different workshop series on this
topic have successfully been organised during the last few years:
Thinking with Diagrams, Theory of Visual Languages, Reasoning with
Diagrammatic Representations, and Formalizing Reasoning with Visual
and Diagrammatic Representations.
Diagrams are simultaneously complex cognitive phenonema and
sophisticated computational artifacts. So, to be successful and
relevant the study of diagrams must as a whole be interdisciplinary in
nature. Thus, the workshop series mentioned above have decided to
merge into
Diagrams 2000,
as the single interdisciplinary
conference for this exciting new field.
Diagrams 2000
provides a forum with sufficient breadth of scope to encompass
researchers from all academic areas who are studying the nature of
diagrammatic representations and their use by humans and in
machines. It is intended to become the premier international
conference series in this field and will attract participants from
applied linguistics, architecture, artificial intelligence, cognitive
science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of
science, human-computer interaction, philosophical logic, psychology
and others.
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