The International Conferences on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) have been held annually in Europe, Australia, and North America since 1993. The central focus is the formal analysis and representation of conceptual knowledge with applications to artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and related areas of computer science.

A position paper is a "lightly-reviewed" paper, maximum length two pages, whose content would be of interest to conference attendees. The content may be a brief summary of work in progress, a research proposal, an opinion about conceptual structures research in general, a critique of an existing or proposed method, or a description of an application. We welcome all opinions; papers will be selected based on the quality of the writing and their relevance to the conceptual structures community.

The position papers will be published the the supplemental proceedings, which will be published on-line this year by CEUR. If the schedule permits, one author of each position paper will have a short time period (10 to 15 minutes each) to present the paper.

The paper format must adhere to the Springer-Verlag guidelines as published on the conference Web site under Formatting Papers. Authors do not have to submit a copyright form.

The electronic submission in Postscript or PDF (preferred) format must be received on or before Sunday, June 10, 2001, at Guy.Mineau@ift.ulaval.ca . See the conference website for further details. If you have any questions before June 10, please contact the ICCS Program Chairs: Harry Delugach or Gerd Stumme