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3-4 May 2006, 3rd International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics (WSPI 2006), Saarbr¨cken, Germany

Date: 3-4 May 2006
Location: Saarbr¨cken, Germany
Deadline: 16 January 2006

The Third International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics is organized by the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science and the Special Interest Group on Philosophy and Informatics of the German Informatics Society.

The workshops are designed to encourage interdisciplinary exchange on the philosophical foundations of informatics. They seek to bring together researchers from philosophy and informatics and neighboring disciplines in order to explore common points of interest and to develop an interface between the disciplines and a common vocabulary. The workshop also serves as the annual meeting platform of the members of the Special Interest Group on Philosophy and Informatics. The 2006 Workshop has a special focus on the area of bio- and biomedical informatics.

For more information, see http://wspi2006.workshop.hm/

WSPI 2006 focuses on bioinformatics, but contributions on philosophy and informatics in general are also invited. Submission deadline is 16 January 2006.

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