Researchers and professionals in the relevant fields will find this book a must-read, as it defines the leading edge of current research into conceptual structures. It constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, held in Sheffield, UK in July 2007. With almost 50 papers contained in its 500 pages, it includes a special focus on the application of conceptual structures in business and technological settings and is organized into topical sections for ease of reference.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2002, held in Borovets, Bulgaria. in July 2002.The 27 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on data and knowledge structures, information retrieval, natural language, ontology and semantics, interfaces and applications, and logical and mathematical foundations.