Salzburg, Austria - 15-18 September 2004
Symposium
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Welcome!Metainformatics is a deliberately evocative title for a nascent community concerned with finding common ground shared by researchers and practitioners in many different computer science areas, who may use similar methods to achieve different ends. There is interest in finding useful abstractions, notations, analytical frameworks, formalisms, and systems that improve our understanding of the underlying structure of various disciplines and families of systems within Computer Science. Ideally these constructs should have utility in conveying knowledge and understanding across disciplinary boundaries. The Third Metainformatics Symposium will bring together researchers from a variety of fields including computer science, social sciences and the humanities to share and discuss ideas about the field of computer science, its effects on people both inside and outside the field, and on technologies that may help shape the field's future directions. The symposium will be structured somewhat differently than many traditional conferences by scheduling sessions intended to foster dialog within small groups of researchers in addition to plenary sessions to stress unifying themes. There will be ample opportunity for in-depth discussions to follow up on ideas presented at larger sessions, as well as several informal gatherings to help foster a sense of community in this new area. More details will be made available on this site soon. You can always mail mis04@cs.aue.auc.dk for more information. Thanks for your interest. Important Dates
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