The ICCS conference has proved to be the focal point of academic and industrial research for who use Conceptual Structures both in their theoretical studies and their practical applications.

The Conceptual Graph model is at the origin of these works. This model is a graphical model of knowledge representation of significant interest to many scientific communities at the meeting point of Artificial Intelligence, Databases and Linguistics. For a quarter of a century, numerous theoretical works (based notably on graph algorithms or logic) as well as applied works (in, for example, Natural Language Processing or Information Retrieval) have been carried out on this model in numerous laboratories across the world. ICCS has established itself as the foremost gathering for researchers in computer science, mathematics, humanities and social sciences, economics, philosophy.

The scientific community working on conceptual graphs has reached the stage where the ICCS conference is now open to new centres of interest linked to knowledge representation such as Formal Concept Analysis, Description Logics, ontologies, the Semantic Web …

ICCS 2008 will be the opportunity to review the progress of both theoretical and applied works in these areas. Presentations by keynote speakers from academia and industry will alternate with those of research works selected by an international review committee. This edition of ICCS will focus on the impact of conceptual structures on everyday life, especially in the framework of the development of an intelligent Web.