Abstract This paper extends Parikhs earlier work in semantics with games of partial information and attempts to derive and represent the full content of an utterance from first principles. It also discusses various ways in which this content may be…
Papers in Ontology
Ontology papers in Philosophy, R
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In view of the need for highly distributed and federated architecture, ranking ontologies from different data sources in a specific domain have great impact on the performance of web applications. Since ontologies for a same domain usually overlap,…
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This study traces the effects of a purposefully chosen news agenda on the perceived and actual issue opinions of members of the mass public. Using a year-long, quasi-experimental design, we analyzed a newspaper's attempt to move community opinion…
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Reviews Studies in Reading. Volume II (1950). The reviewer notes that the first three of these four papers are theses for advanced degrees in education. The first is "Socio-Economic Status and Reading Ability-A Study in Infant Reading" by Violet M.…
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The four tenets of the strong program are compatible with a scientific realism founded on an externalist epistemology. Such an epistemology allows that appropriate norms of rationality may differ from time to time, and from community to community,…
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Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social', as used by Social Scientists, has become laden…
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Social networks constitute an important research area where users are involved in social interactions and inform each other of activities they perform. In this paper a complex activity recognition system (SEMACT) is proposed, built and validated.…
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Part I is composed of four chapters which respectively discuss dynamic programming, applications, problems with imperfect state information, and computational aspects and suboptimal control. The applications chapter presents the…
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An information system distinguishes itself from other software as it is developed to facilitate the operation of an organization, hence it reflects its strategies, plans, organizations, processes, marketing etc. We believe that the requirement in…
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This paper proposes an ontology-based framework and tool to guide the requirements engineering process in RAD projects for financial solution application development. The framework is aimed at empowering IT, business and solutions analysts with a…
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The indigenous traditions and values of African peoples have been viewed as being behind the times. Disregarding established, functioning systems of African resource allocation has led to a system of interaction out of touch with local cultural…
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Adherent cells exert tractions on their surroundings. These tractions can be measured by observing the displacements of beads embedded on a flexible gel substrate on which the cells are cultured. This paper presents an exact solution to the problem…
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Vocabulary alignment is a main challenge in distributed access control as peers should understand each other's policies unambiguously. Ontologies enable mutual understanding among peers by providing a precise semantics to concepts and relationships…
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In software testing organizations, effective knowledge management of the testing process is the key to improve the quality of software testing. One of the most important research questions is how to effectively integrate the knowledge management…
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Although emancipatory action research has been practised for decades and continues to evolve, the method can benefit from the support of fresh approaches. Outcome mapping is an innovative planning, monitoring, and evaluation methodology recently…
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In the environment of the electronic commerce, agent and multi-agent system (MAS) is often adopted to the intelligent service. In related research we often take interaction of agents as methods to resolve business problems. Our framework attempts to…
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The diversity of graphics models in the electric utility software environment leads to much duplicative work and impede information sharing greatly. Although two Graphics exchange approach have been put forward by CCAPI, there still are some problem…
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Compared with the traditional power grid, Smart Grid can improve the reliability and availability of the entire grid, while it continues to reduce the costs and improve the efficiency. It is getting more and more attentions, the characteristics of…
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The robust knowledge base needs a reasonable design pattern to represent knowledge model. On the foundation of the research about relationship of knowledge model with knowledge ontology, the knowledge model defined by three categories of domain…
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A semantic-based Web mining is mentioned by many people in order to improve Web service levels and address the existing Web services which is supported by the lack of semantic problem. Semantic-based Web data mining is a combination of the semantic…
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