diff --git a/_posts/2017-09-01-tetrapod.md b/_posts/2017-09-01-tetrapod.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4e7e13f5e0f971105e5d08a612876fb905dbb10d --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2017-09-01-tetrapod.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +--- +layout: post +author: dmueller +title: Workshop on Modular Knowledge (Tetrapod), FLoC 2018 +tags: + - event +--- +The KWARC group is (jointly with with Jacques Carette from McMaster University) +co-organizing a [workshop on Modular Knowledge](/events/Tetrapod-2018) at the [Federated Logic Conference 2018, Cambridge](http://www.floc2018.org/), July 13. diff --git a/events/Tetrapod-2018.md b/events/Tetrapod-2018.md index cfe44c0ce0d10d535726d0183f13571ee83f7582..0cea50fbd6fb91f8c007d1e9b63b00489cd5384d 100644 --- a/events/Tetrapod-2018.md +++ b/events/Tetrapod-2018.md @@ -1,5 +1,52 @@ --- layout: page -title: Tetrapod 2018 +title: Workshop on Modular Knowledge (Tetrapod) 2018 --- -.... +### Description + +Mathematics, logics, and computer science support a rich ecosystem of formal knowledge. + This involves many interrelated human activities such as modeling phenomena and formulating conjectures, proofs, and computations, and organizing, interconnecting, visualizing, and applying this knowledge. + To handle the ever increasing body of knowledge, practitioners employ a rapidly expanding set of representation languages and computer-based tools centered around the four fundamental paradigms of formal deduction, computation, datasets, and informal narration. + +Modularity has been recognized in all FLoC-related communities as a critical method for designing scalable representation languages and building large corpora of knowledge. + It is also extremely valuable for comparing and exchanging knowledge across communities, corpora, and tools - a challenge that is both pressing and difficult. + +Expanding on the Tetrapod workshop at the conference on intelligent computer mathematics (CICM) 2016, this workshop brings together researchers from a diverse set of research areas in order to create a universal understanding of the challenges and solutions regarding highly structured knowledge bases. + Of particular interest are +- foundational principles such as theory graphs and colimits +- interchange languages and module systems +- languages and tools for representing, reasoning, computing, managing, and documenting modular knowledge bases + +### Organization + +#### Organizers + +- Jacques Carette, McMaster University (carette@mcmaster.ca) +- Dennis Müller, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (d.mueller@kwarc.info) +- Florian Rabe, Jacobs University Bremen (f.rabe@jacobs-university.de) + +#### Location +[Federated Logic Conference 2018, Cambridge](http://www.floc2018.org/), July 13. + +#### Estimate of Audience Size +20 - 30 + +#### Format + +- There will be 8 invited speakers, each of which will be asked to present a specific topic. +- Each speaker will give a 15-minute presentation on that topic that is followed by a + 30-minute discussion session. +- There will not be a call for papers or other contributions. + However, there will be a call for participation that will include the invited speakers and their topics. + +#### Invited speakers and topics + +Invitations in progress + +#### Procedures for selecting papers + The organizers will select invited speakers and topics. + No selection of submissions is needed. + +#### Dissemination + A report will be written after the workshop that includes abstracts of the invited talks + and the highlights of the discussions during the workshop.