The papers present a family of Conceptual Structure approaches that build on techniques derived from artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, applied mathematics and lattice theory, computational linguistics, conceptual modeling, intelligent systems and knowledge management.

Diagrammatic Reasoning Systems.- Pursuing the Goal of Language Understanding.- Web, Graphs and Semantics.- Transdisciplinarity and Generalistic Sciences and Humanities.- Jacob Lorhard’s Ontology: A 17th Century Hypertext on the Reality and Temporality of the World of Intelligibles.- Revelator’s Complex Adaptive Reasoning Methodology for Resource Infrastructure Evolution.- Conceptual Spider Diagrams.- An Algorithmic Study of Deduction in Simple Conceptual Graphs with Classical Negation.- Flexible Querying of Fuzzy RDF Annotations Using Fuzzy Conceptual Graphs.- Query-Answering CG Knowledge Bases.- Attribute Exploration Using Implications with Proper Premises.- Sorting Concepts by Priority Using the Theory of Monotone Systems.- Extending Attribute Dependencies for Lattice-Based Querying and Navigation.- PACTOLE: A Methodology and a System for Semi-automatically Enriching an Ontology from a Collection of Texts.- Fair(er) and (Almost) Serene Committee Meetings with Logical and Formal Concept Analysis.- Contextual Cognitive Map.- Employing a Domain Specific Ontology to Perform Semantic Search.- Concept Similarity and Related Categories in SearchSleuth.- Grounded Conceptual Graph Models.- Scenario Argument Structure vs Individual Claim Defeasibility: What Is More Important for Validity Assessment?.- Griwes: Generic Model and Preliminary Specifications for a Graph-Based Knowledge Representation Toolkit.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2008, held in Toulouse, France, in July 2008. The 19 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from over 70 submissions. The scope of the contributions ranges from theoretical and methodological topics to implementation issues and applications. The papers present a family of Conceptual Structure approaches that build on techniques derived from artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, applied mathematics and lattice theory, computational linguistics, conceptual modeling, intelligent systems and knowledge management.