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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

- Introduction

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