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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference

12th International Conference, Diagrams 2021, Virtual, September 28–30, 2021, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 12909)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): Diagrams: International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams

Conference proceedings info: Diagrams 2021.

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Table of contents (57 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Design of Concrete Diagrams

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Aesthetics and Ordering in Stacked Area Charts

      • Steffen Strunge Mathiesen, Hans-Jörg Schulz
      Pages 3-19
    3. Interactive, Orthogonal Hyperedge Routing in Schematic Diagrams Assisted by Layout Automatisms

      • Stefan Helmke, Bernhard Goetze, Robert Scheffler, Gregor Wrobel
      Pages 20-27Open Access
    4. Evidence of Chunking in a Simple Drawing Task

      • Yanze Liu, Peter C-H. Cheng
      Pages 28-31
  3. Theory of Diagrams

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
    2. Considerations in Representation Selection for Problem Solving: A Review

      • Aaron Stockdill, Daniel Raggi, Mateja Jamnik, Grecia Garcia Garcia, Peter C.-H. Cheng
      Pages 35-51
  4. Diagrams and Mathematics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
    2. What Diagrams Are Considered Useful for Solving Mathematical Word Problems in Japan?

      • Hiroaki Ayabe, Emmanuel Manalo, Mari Fukuda, Norihiro Sadato
      Pages 79-83Open Access
  5. Diagrams and Logic

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
    2. The Search for Symmetry in Hohfeldian Modalities

      • Matteo Pascucci, Giovanni Sileno
      Pages 87-102
    3. Wittgenstein’s Picture-Investigations

      • Michael A. R. Biggs
      Pages 103-117
    4. What Kind of Opposition-Forming Operator is Privation?

      • José David García Cruz
      Pages 118-131
    5. Presenting Basic Graph Logic

      • Márcia R. Cerioli, Leandro Suguitani, Petrucio Viana
      Pages 132-148
    6. Schopenhauer’s Partition Diagrams and Logical Geometry

      • Jens Lemanski, Lorenz Demey
      Pages 149-165
    7. Revisiting Peirce’s Rules of Transformation for Euler-Venn Diagrams

      • Reetu Bhattacharjee, Amirouche Moktefi
      Pages 166-182
    8. Tractarian Notations

      • Francesco Bellucci
      Pages 183-187

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Diagrams 2021, held virtually in September 2021.

The 16 full papers and 25 short papers presented together with 16 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: design of concrete diagrams; theory of diagrams; diagrams and mathematics; diagrams and logic; new representation systems; analysis of diagrams; diagrams and computation; cognitive analysis; diagrams as structural tools; formal diagrams; and understanding thought processes.

10 chapters are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

    Amrita Basu

  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Gem Stapleton

  • Lancaster University in Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Sven Linker

  • Deakin University, Burwood, Australia

    Catherine Legg

  • Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Emmanuel Manalo

  • Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil

    Petrucio Viana

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