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Proceedings will be
published by Springer (series
"SAPERE'' http://www.springer.com/series/10087)
Selected technical papers will be published in a special issue of an
international journal
Final papers............................due..
September 30, 2012
INSTRUCTIONS
Previously unpublished papers in English should be sent in LaTex (preferably LaTeX2e)
or DOC to the Chair (DOC and LATEX styles can be found clicking on author instructions at SAPERE web page)
MAX 18/20 pages.
In case LATEX is preferred, the use of BIBTEX is encouraged.
We encourage to prepare LaTeXed technical papers, that will be probably addressed to a Journal Special
Issue(s).
MODEL-BASED REASONING
IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Theoretical and Cognitive Issues
http://www-3.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/mbr12.php
MBR'012_ITALY
Sestri
Levante, Italy, June 21-23, 2012
Fondazione
Mediaterraneo
http://www.mediaterraneo.org/english/
Chair:
Lorenzo Magnani
Last Updated: Jan 22,
2012
MBR COMMUNITY WEB SITE
http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/cpl2/
The
Conference forms part of the Celebrations to mark the 650th Year since
the Foundation of the University of Pavia in 1361
http://650.unipv.it/
Sponsors: University of
Pavia, University of Siena,
Funds MIUR-PRIN 2009
Ministero dell'Università della Ricerca Scientifica e
Tecnologica
Italy (http://www.miur.it/
GENERAL
INFORMATION
From Thursday 21 to Saturday 23 June 2012 (three days), the
International Conference MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY will be held at Fondazione Mediaterraneo in the town of Sestri Levante
(Province of Genoa),
Ligurian Sea
(Mediterranean Sea), Italy.
CONFERENCE
SITE
FONDAZIONE MEDIATERRANEO
(EU, Comune di Sestri Levante, Provincia di Genova)
Convento dell’Annunziata
Via Portobello (Baia del Silenzio [Silence Bay])
16039 Sestri Levante (GE) Italy
Tel. +39 0185 458066
Fax +39 0185 42663
email: info@mediaterraneo.org
http://www.mediaterraneo.org/english/
map: http://liguria.angloinfo.com/maps/622/Sestri+Levante+Map.html
The conference derives from an
international research cooperation which is centered on the PRIN2009
Funds (Italian Ministry of University, MIUR) and it is promoted by the
Department of Philosophy of the University of Pavia (Italy) and the
Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the University of Siena
(Italy). It continues the topics and traditions of past conferences
"Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery" MBR'98, "Model-Based
Reasoning: Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, and Values"
MBR'01, "Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Engineering: Abduction,
Visualization, and Simulation" MBR'04, and "Model-Based Reasoning in
Science and Medicine", MBR06_CHINA, "Model-Based Reasoning in Science
and Technology. Abduction, Logic, and Computational Discovery,
MBR09_BRAZIL.
The previous
volumes derived from those conferences are:
- L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and P. Thagard (eds.) (1999),
Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery,
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.
http://www.springer.com/mathematics/applications/book/978-0-306-46292-4
(Chinese edition, translated and edited by Q. Yu and T. Wang, China Science and Technology Press, Beijing,
2000).
- L. Magnani
and N. J. Nersessian (eds.) (2002), Model-Based Reasoning. Science,
Technology, Values, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-306-47244-9
- L. Magnani,
N. J. Nersessian, and C. Pizzi (eds.) (2002), Logical and Computational
Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning,
Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-0791-4
P. Li, X.
Chen, Z. Zhang, and H. Zhang (eds.)(2004), Science, Cognition, and
Consciousness, JiangXi People's Press, Nanchang, China.
- L. Magnani and Li. Ping (eds.) (2006), Philosophical Investigations
from a Perspective of Cognition, Guangdong People’s Publishing House, Guangzhou, (published in Chinese).
- L. Magnani
(2006) (ed.), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Engineering.
Cognitive Science, Epistemology, Logic, College Publications, London. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Model-Based-Reasoning-Science-Engineering/dp/1904987230
- L. Magnani
and P. Li (eds.) (2007), Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology,
and Medicine, Series “Studies in Computational Intelligence”, Vol. 64,
Springer, Berlin/New York. http://www.springer.com/engineering/book/978-3-540-71985-4
- L. Magnani, W. Carnielli, C. Pizzi (eds.) (2010) Model-Based
Reasoning in Science and Technology Abduction, Logic, and Computational
Discovery, Series “Studies in Computational Intelligence”, Vol. 314,
Springer, Heidelberg/Berlin. http://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/book/978-3-642-15222-1
Selected papers of the previous conferences were published in
international journals (Philosophia, Foundations of Science, The Logic
Journal of the IGPL).
PROGRAM
The conference will deal with the logical, epistemological, and
cognitive aspects of modeling practices employed in science,
technology, and cognitive science, including logical and
computational models of such practices. We solicit papers that examine
the role of abduction, visualization, simulation, and other aspects in
model-based reasoning from philosophical, logical, epistemological,
historical, sociological, psychological, or computational perspectives.
The conference is also devoted to examine the impact of Model-Based
Reasoning research in the enhancement of various kinds of human
cognitive skills, mental, hybrid, manipulative, etc.
RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS
We call for papers that cover topics pertaining to
model-based reasoning in science and human cognition from the following
list:
- general
theoretical and cognitive issues
- models as fictions, distortions, credible worlds
- models and games of make-believe
- ontology of models
- affordances, artifacts, and model-based reasoning
- brain, neuroscience, and model-based reasoning
- abduction
- logical analyses related to model-based reasoning
- visual, spatial, imagistic modeling and reasoning
- simulative modeling
- the role of diagrammatic representations
- computational models of visual and simulative
reasoning
- causal and counterfactual reasoning in model
construction
- visual analogy
- thought experimenting
- manipulative reasoning
- distributed model-based reasoning
- distributed cognition, embodiment, and model-based
reasoning
- model-based reasoning in scientific
discovery and conceptual change
- model-based reasoning and ethics
- model-based reasoning and semiotics
- model-based reasoning in scientific explanation
- model-based medical diagnosis
- model-based reasoning in engineering and robotics
- model-based reasoning and technological artifacts
- model-based reasoning and knowledge management
- model-based reasoning and information technology
- the role of models in scientific and technological
thinking
THE CONFERENCE IS SPONSORED BY
- University of Pavia, Department of Philosophy, Italy (http://www.unipv.it/)
- University of Siena, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences,
Italy (http://www.unisi.it/
)
- Research Funds PRIN2009, MIUR (Ministero
dell'Università della Ricerca Scientifica
e Tecnologica), Italy (http://www.miur.it/):
National
Coordinator,
L.
Magnani
(Unit
of
the
University
of
Pavia),
Research Units: University of Siena (C. Pizzi), University of
Rome la Sapienza (M. Capozzi),
University of Bologna (R. Lupacchini), University of Salerno (M.
Frixione), University of Chieti/Pescara (C. Casadio).
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Atocha Aliseda, Instituto de Investigaciones
Filosoficas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
- Emanuele Bardone, Department of Philosophy & Computational
Philosophy Laboratory, University of Pavia, ITALY,
and Institute of Informatics, University of Tallinn, ESTONIA
- Silvana Borutti, Department of Philosophy, University of Pavia, ITALY
- Otávio Bueno, Department of Philosophy, University of Miami,
Coral Gables, USA
- Mirella Capozzi, Department of Philosophy, University of Rome 'La
Sapienza', Rome, ITALY
- Walter Carnielli, Department of Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy
and Human Sciences, State University of Campinas, BRAZIL
- Claudia Casadio, Department of Psychology, Università di
Chieti-Pescara, Italy
- Carlo Cellucci, Department of Philosophy, University of Rome 'La
Sapienza', Rome, ITALY
- Sanjay Chandrasekharan, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
- Roberto Cordeschi, Department of Philosophy, Univeristy of Rome 'La
Sapienza', Rome, ITALY
- Roberto Feltrero, Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of
Science at UNED (Spanish Open University), Madrid, SPAIN
- Steven French, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Marcello Frixione, Department of Communication Sciences, University
of Salerno, ITALY
- Dov Gabbay,
Department of Computer Science, King's College, London, UK
- Marcello Guarini,
Department of Philosophy, University of Windsor, CANADA
- Ricardo Gudwin, Department of Computer
Engineering and Industrial Automation, the School of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science,
State University of Campinas, BRAZIL
- Viorel Guliciuc, Stefan cel Mare University, Suceava, ROMANIA
- Albrecht Heeffer, Centre for History of Science, Ghent University,
BELGIUM.
- Michael Hoffmann, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, USA
- Decio Krause, Departamento de Filosofia, Universidade Federal de
Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, BRAZIL
- Michael Leyton, Psychology Department, and DIMACS Center for Discrete
Mathematics, & Theoretical Computer Science, Rutgers University, USA
- Ping Li, Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou,
P.R. CHINA
- Giuseppe Longo, CREA, CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, FRANCE
- Angelo Loula, Department of Exact Sciences, State University of Feira
de Santana, BRAZIL
- Shangmin Luan, Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing, P.R. CHINA
- Rossella Lupacchini, Università di Bologna, Bologna, ITALY
- Lorenzo Magnani, Department of Philosophy & Computational
Philosophy Laboratory, University of Pavia, ITALY
- Joke Meheus, Vakgroep Wijsbegeerte, Universiteit Gent, Gent, BELGIUM
- Woosuk Park, Humanities & Social Sciences,
KAIST, Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu Daejeon, SOUTH KOREA
- Claudio Pizzi, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences,
University of Siena, Siena, ITALY
- Demetris Portides, Department of Classics and Philosophy, University
of Cyprus, Nicosia, CYPRUS
- Joao Queiroz, Institute
of
Arts
and
Design.
Federal
University
of
Juiz
de
Fora,
BRAZIL
- Shahid Rahman, U.F.R. de Philosophie, Université Lille
3, Villeneuve d'Ascq, FRANCE
- Oliver Ray, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol,
Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM
- Colin Schmidt, Institut d'Informatique Claude
Chappe, University of
Le Mans, FRANCE
- Gerhard Schurz, Institute for Philosophy,
Heinrich-Heine University,
GERMANY
- Cameron Shelley, Department of Philosophy,
University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, CANADA
- Chris Sinha, Centre for Cognitive Semiotics,
Lund University, Lund,
SWEDEN
- Nik Swoboda, Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid, Madrd, SPAIN
- Paul Thagard, Departemnt of Philosophy, University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, CANADA
- Barbara Tversky, Department of Psychology, Stanford University
and Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA
- Ryan D. Tweney, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Bowling Green State
University, Bowling Green, USA
- Riccardo Viale, Department of Sociology and
Social Research,
University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, ITALY
and Italian Cultural Institute of New York (Director), USA
- John Woods, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia,
CANADA
INVITED SPEAKERS AND PLENARY PRESENTATIONS
- Atocha
Aliseda,
Instituto
de
Investigaciones
Filosoficas,
Universidad
Nacional
Autonoma
de Mexico (UNAM)
- Michel Ghins, Institut
supérieur de philosophie, Université catholique de
Louvain, Lovain-la-Neuve, BELGIUM
- Lorenzo Magnani, Department
of Philosophy & Computational Philosophy Laboratory, University of
Pavia, ITALY
- Woosuk
Park,
Humanities
&
Social
Sciences,
KAIST,
Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu Daejeon, SOUTH KOREA
- Claudio
Pizzi,
Department
of
Philosophy
and
Social
Sciences,
University of Siena,
Siena, ITALY
- Chris Sinha, University of
Lund, Lund, SWEDEN
- Paul
Thagard, Department of
Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, CANADA
- Barbara Tversky, Department
of
Psychology,
Stanford
University
and
Teachers
College,
Columbia
University,
New York, USA
- Ryan
D.
Tweney, Emeritus Professor
of Psychology, Bowling Green State
University, Bowling Green, USA
- John Woods, Department of
Philosophy, University of British Columbia, CANADA
SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS AND SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS
All submitted papers will be carefully refereed. The precise format of
the conference will be fixed after we have an idea of the number of
accepted papers. We expect approximately 60 contributed presentations
some of 40 and others of 20 minutes. There will be several invited
presentations of 1 hour. A selected subset will be of accepted papers
invited for inclusion (subject to additional refereeing) in a book,
which will constitute an advanced handbook for researchers in this
area. The book will be published by an international publishing house.
Moreover another selected subset will be invited for inclusion (subject
to additional refereeing) in special issues of suitable international
journals like for example Logic Journal of the IGPS and Foundations
of
Science, which already hosted articles presented at MBR98,
MBR01, MBR04, MBR04, MBR06_CHINA, MBR09_BRAZIL.
To participate to the conference authors must submit an electronic
version - formatted in Microsoft Word or .RTF, or .PDF (in this last
case please include source - .DOC, .TEX or other file) - of an extended
abstract (total word count approximately 1000-1200). The file must also
contain a 300 WORDS abstract that will be used for the conference web
site/booklet.
No later than January 2, 2012 please the extended abstract
to Prof.Lorenzo Magnani
lmagnani@unipv.it
SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS
No later than January 17, 2012: please a two pages symposium proposal
(3-5 presentations)
to Prof. Lorenzo Magnani
lmagnani@unipv.it
STUDENT GRANTS
Students and other participants are encouraged to submit, besides the extended
abstract, an application for a grant to attend the conference.
There will be some available grants for participants in the amount of 300 euros each
one. The only condition in order to get the grant is to prove that without it,
his or her participation is impossible. Applications for grants should contain name,
affiliation, position and the reason why the grant is important for the participant.
It should be sent to
lmagnani@unipv.it
by January 31, 2012.
REGISTRATION
AND PAYMENT (SWIFT TRANSFER or CREDIT CARD/PAYPAL)
(it is possible to register and to pay fees at a later date, before
March 30, see below)
Please
click
here CLOSED (June 25, 2012)
REGISTRATION FEES:
Before March 30, 2012:
Standard: Euro
250,00 (to
participate in all the activities of the Conference Social Dinner
included)
PhD Students:
Euro 150,00
Master Students
and Undergraduates: Euro 60
After March 30, 2012:
Standard: Euro
300,00
(to
participate
in
all
the
activities
of
the
Conference
Social
Dinner
Included)
PhD Students:
Euro 200,00
Master Students
and Undergraduates: 75
One day only: Euro 100,00
No refunds will be granted after May 15th.
Terms & Conditions: an administration fee of Euro 75,00 will be
charged for cancellations confirmed in writing by May 15th.
ACCOMMODATION
To book a reservation please fill this accommodation form
and fax it to +39018542663 or email it to info@mediaterraneo.org
You will receive an mail confirmation of the hotel booking
from the booking office, Mrs. Camilla Capozzi - Fondazione Mediaterraneo
BEFORE MARCH 31, 2012 (even if, considering that Sestri
Levante is a
touristic town, we "strongly" recommend to book the reservation as soon
as possible)
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline........................ Jan 2, 2011
Notification of acceptance............... Jan 31, 2012
Conference..................................... June 21-23, 2012
Final papers............................due.. September 30, 2012
PROGRAM CHAIR
Lorenzo MAGNANI
Director of Graduate and Postgraduate Studies in Philosophy
Director, Computational Philosophy Laboratory
<http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/>
Department of Philosophy,
University of Pavia,
Piazza Botta 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Author's Webpage:
<http://www.unipv.it/magnani>
Office: +39-0382-506283, Home: +39-0383-371067
Fax: +39-0382-23215
Email: lmagnani@unipv.it
LOCAL ORGANIZATION COORDINATOR (Italy)
Dr. Elena GANDINI
Managing Director
Across Events
Via Olevano 136, 27100 Pavia (Italy)
Tel +39 0382 576634, Fax
+39 0382 469316
Cell. +39 345 4982784, email: e.gandini@acrossevents.com
skype elegandi
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEES
Lorenzo Magnani (University of Pavia)
Emanuele Bardone (University of Pavia)
Tommaso Bertolotti (University of Pavia)
Elena Gandini (Across Events)
HOW TO REACH SESTRI LEVANTE
From LINATE Airport (MILAN):
www.sea-aeroportimilano.it/linate
People arriving by plane at LINATE should take the bus to the CENTRAL
STATION of Milan.
From MALPENSA TERMINAL and MALPENSA TERMINAL (MILAN): http://www.seamilano.eu/en
(usually international flights arrive to Malpensa Terminal 1 and not to
MALPENSA Terminal 2, which is mainly used by low-cost
carriers such as EasyJet): People arriving by plane ay MALPENSA
TERMINAL 1 or at MALPENSA TERMINAL 2 should take the bus to the CENTRAL
STATION of Milan. There is also a bus AND a shuttle TRAIN
(Malpensa Express) from Malpensa 2000 to the CADORNA STATION (Piazzale
Cadorna, NORTH STATION) of Milan: in this case from Cadorna Station you
will have to take the underground MM2 (green line) to the Central
Raylway Station: trains to Sestri Levante. Trains run from MILAN
(Central Raylway Station) to SESTRI LEVANTE (and back) quite frequently
http://www.trenitalia.com/
[English websitehttp://www.trenitalia.com/cms/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=ad1ce14114bc9110VgnVCM10000080a3e90aRCRD]
(routes: MILAN-LA SPEZIA; MILAN-SESTRI LEVANTE).
There are frequent trains (also local) from GENOA
(Stazione Porta Principe or Stazione
Brignole) to SESTRI LEVANTE
and vice versa http://www.trenitalia.com/ (routes: MILAN-LA SPEZIA; MILAN-SESTRI LEVANTE). The
train journey from Milano to Sestri Levante takes from 2 to 3 hours
(depending on whether the train is an Intercity, Regional etc).
GENOA airport http://www.airport.genova.it/v2/index.php?lang=en
VOLABUS
TIMETABLE FROM APRIL 11, 2011
Rides from Brignole Railway Station to Cristoforo Colombo Airport
05.20 - 05.50 - 06.30 - 07.10 - 08.10 - 09.10 - 09.55 - 10.50 - 11.10 -
11.40 - 12.25 - 12.50 - 13.15 - 14.00 -
14.45 - 15.30 - 16.20 - 17.10 - 17.35 - 18.15 - 19.00 -
19.55 - 20.40 - 21.15 - 22.10
Rides from Cristoforo Colombo Airport to Brignole Station
06.00 - 06.30 - 07.15 - 08.15 - 09.00 - 10.05 - 10.45 - 11.35 - 12.05 -
12.30 - 13.15 - 13.40 - 14.00 - 14.45 -
15.30 - 16.25 - 17.25 - 18.10 - 18.35 - 19.20 - 19.55 -
20.35 - 21.35 - 22.10 - 23.30
WHERE TO BUY TICKETS
• Aboard the VOLABUS
• At the airport, by the AMT automatic ticket reseller or by the
Tourist Information Center (IAT)
• At the AMT stores in Via d'Annunzio 8 (downtown), via Avio 9R
(Sampierdarena), via Bobbio 250R (Marassi).
Monday-Friday, 08.15-15.45
• At the Tourist Information Centers downtown (Piazza De Ferrari and
via Garibaldi)
• At any AMT automatic ticket reseller
• At some authorized resellers by the bus stops
• Online on http://www.amt.genova.it/
Sestri Levante is about 35 minutes from
Genoa Rail
Station.
In Sestri Levante there is only one rail station. The town is relatively small.
The easiest way to reach the center of the town and the two bays
is to get off at the station and then walk towards the beaches.
