[CEUR Workshop Proceedings] Vol-812
urn:nbn:de:0074-812-7

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SHAPES 1.0
The Shape Of Things 2011


Proceedings of the First Interdisciplinary Workshop on SHAPES

SHAPES 1.0 has been organised as a part of the Context 2011 conference

Karlsruhe, Germany, September 27, 2011.


Edited by

Janna Hastings *
Oliver Kutz **
Mehul Bhatt **
Stefano Borgo ***


* European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK; and University of Geneva, Switzerland
** University of Bremen, Germany
*** Laboratory of Applied Ontology, Trento, Italy




Table of Contents

  1. Shape is a Non-Quantifiable Physical Dimension
    Ingvar Johansson
  2. Holes, Knots and Shapes: A Spatial Ontology of a Puzzle
    Paulo Santos, Pedro Cadalar
  3. Open and Closed: Reflections from the Boundaries of Form
    Frieder Nake
  4. Connecting Points by Smooth Connection Functions Defines Shapes in the Smoothest Possible Way
    Alex Alon, Sven Bergmann
  5. A General Framework for Shape Similarity
    Stefano Borgo, Oliver Kutz
  6. Shapes, Grammars, Constraints and Policies
    Jose-Luis Perez De La Cruz, Manuela Ruiz-Montiel, Lawrence Mandow
  7. Shape is Physical
    Luca Gammaitoni
  8. Thinking Outside (and Inside) the Box
    Michael Gruninger, Salim Bouafoud
  9. On the Visual Perception of Shape - Analysis and Genesis through Information Models
    Frederic Fol Leymarie
  10. Visualizing the 'Shape of Quality': An Application in the Context of Intellectual Property
    Sylvan Rudduck, Natalie Stoianoff, Mary-Anne Williams
  11. The Shape of Shapes: An Ontological Exploration
    Robert Rovetto
  12. Modeling Shapes and Graphics Concepts in an Ontology
    Mehdi Niknam, Christel Kemke
  13. A New Scaling Measure Quantifies the Conservation of Proportions of Gene Expression Profiles in Developing Organic Shapes
    Aitana Morton De Lachapelle, Sven Bergmann
  14. Parts and Wholes, Shapes and Holes in Living Beings
    Janna Hastings, Colin Batchelor, Stefan Schulz
20-Nov-2011: submitted by Janna Hastings
20-Nov-2011: published on CEUR-WS.org