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# WSPI '05
Second International Workshop on
Philosophy and Informatics

### Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on
Philosophy and Informatics
organized by the SIG Philosophy and Informatics
at the Third Conference Professional Knowledge Management
Kaiserslautern (Germany), April 11-13, 2005.

Edited by

### Gregor Büchel *
Bertin Klein #
Thomas Roth-Berghofer +

* Fachhochschule Köln, Betzdorfer Str.2, 50679 Köln, Germany
# DFKI GmbH, Postfach 2080, 67608 Kaiserslautern, Germany
+ TU Kaiserslautern / DFKI GmbH, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

## Table of Contents

1. Knowledge Representation and the Embodied Mind: Towards a Philosophy and Technology of Personalized Informatics
   Wolf-Tilo Balke, Klaus Mainzer
2. Qualities, Quantities, and the Endurant-Perdurant Distinction in Top-Level Ontologies
   Ingvar Johansson
3. Intensional Logic and Epistemic Independency of Intelligent Database Agents
   Zoran Majkic
4. Collecting or Classifying?
   Francis Rousseaux, Thomas Bouaziz
5. Knowledge, Action, and Context: A Process View on Knowledge Management
   Uwe Riss
6. Modelling Ontology Use for Information Systems
   Roland Kaschek
7. Semiotics for Ontologies and Knowledge Representation
   Violeta Damjanovic, Dragan Gasevic, Vladan Devedzic
8. The Influence of Realist Ontology on Technological Projects: The Case of Irish Electronic Voting
   Bruno Zelic, Bernd Carsten Stahl
9. Epistemological Perspectives on IS-Development - A Consensus Oriented Approach on Conceptual Modeling
   Björn Niehaves, Karsten Klose, Ralf Knackstedt, Jörg Becker
10. Being Informative
    Patrick Allo
11. Domain Independent Integrated Multimedia Data Mining is a Frivolous Exercise: Classicism vs. Connectionism Debate Revisited
    Muhammad A. Ahmad, Ankur M. Teredesai
12. Mapping the Multitude. Categories in Representations
    Ruth Hagengruber
13. The Philosophy of Information: A Methodological Point of View
    Gian Maria Greco, Gianluca Paronitti, Matteo Turilli, Luciano Floridi

The papers also appeared in the conference proceedings: WM2005: Professional Knowledge Management Experiences and Visions, Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Andreas Dengel, Ralph Bergmann, Markus Nick, and Thomas Roth-Berghofer (Eds.), ISBN 3-00-016020-5, DFKI GmbH, 2005.

submitted by Thomas Roth-Berghofer, April 16, 2005