Saarbrücken, Germany - May 3-4, 2006

Third International Workshop on
Philosophy and Informatics

Topics of Interest PDF Print E-mail

WSPI 2006 focuses on bioinformatics, but contributions on philosophy and informatics in general are also invited. The main topics are:

  • Philosophical ontology in informatics, with special focus on bioinformatics
    • Ontology, terminology, and taxonomy
    • The ontology of the Electronic Health Record
  • Philosophy and artificial intelligence
    • Knowledge in software
    • Reliability
    • Cognitions in software agents
  • Philosophical aspects of context in informatics and bioinformatics
  • The domain problem
    • Questions of isolation and transfer
    • Adaptation to logics
  • Philosophical contributions to knowledge representation in informatics and bioinformatics
  • Epistemology in informatics and bioinformatics
  • Philosophical reflections on methods of evaluation in informatics and bioinformatics