Download or read book Reality Universal Ontology and Knowledge Systems Toward the Intelligent World written by Abdoullaev, Azamat and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides cutting-edge research on reality, its nature and fundamental structure, represented both by human minds and intelligent machines.--striving to describe a world model and ontology; organized human knowledge; powerful reasoning systems; and secure communication interoperability between human beings and computing reasoning systems promising the profound revolution in human values and ways of life"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Universal Ontology of Geographic Space Semantic Enrichment for Spatial Data written by Podobnikar, Toma and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A universal approach to the ontology of geographic space has already been, and is going to be, a comprehensive task for establishing more effective spatial models. The concept of a universal spatial ontology should be independent of location, culture, and time. It should be fundamental and universal in the same way that the number p defines the ratio between the diameter and the circumference of a circle. The term universal therefore means all-embracing and for general propose. Universal Ontology of Geographic Space: Semantic Enrichment for Spatial Data aims to escalate the current scope of research to support the development of semantically interoperable systems of geographic space. This reference will aid university lecturers and professors, students, researchers, developers of spatial applications.
Download or read book Knowledge Seeker Ontology Modelling for Information Search and Management written by Edward H. Y. Lim and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Knowledge Seeker is a useful system to develop various intelligent applications such as ontology-based search engine, ontology-based text classification system, ontological agent system, and semantic web system etc. The Knowledge Seeker contains four different ontological components. First, it defines the knowledge representation model ¡V Ontology Graph. Second, an ontology learning process that based on chi-square statistics is proposed for automatic learning an Ontology Graph from texts for different domains. Third, it defines an ontology generation method that transforms the learning outcome to the Ontology Graph format for machine processing and also can be visualized for human validation. Fourth, it defines different ontological operations (such as similarity measurement and text classification) that can be carried out with the use of generated Ontology Graphs. The final goal of the KnowledgeSeeker system framework is that it can improve the traditional information system with higher efficiency. In particular, it can increase the accuracy of a text classification system, and also enhance the search intelligence in a search engine. This can be done by enhancing the system with machine processable ontology.
Download or read book Human Computer Systems Interaction written by Zdzislaw S. Hippe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last decades, as the computer technology has been developing, the importance of human-computer systems interaction problems was growing. This is not only because the computer systems performance characteristics have been im-proved but also due to the growing number of computer users and of their expectations about general computer systems capabilities as universal tools for human work and life facilitation. The early technological problems of man-computer information exchange – which led to a progress in computer programming languages and input/output devices construction – have been step by step dominated by the more general ones of human interaction with-and-through computer systems, shortly denoted as H-CSI problems. The interest of scientists and of any sort specialists to the H-CSI problems is very high as it follows from an increasing number of scientific conferences and publications devoted to these topics. The present book contains selected papers concerning various aspects of H-CSI. They have been grouped into five Parts: I. General H-CSI problems (7 papers), II. Disabled persons helping and medical H-CSI applications (9 papers), III. Psychological and linguistic H-CSI aspects (9 papers), IV. Robots and training systems (8 papers), V. Various H-CSI applications (11 papers).
Download or read book Enhancing Mathematics Understanding through Visualization The Role of Dynamical Software written by Habre, Samer and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics is, by its very nature, an abstract discipline. However, many students learn best by thinking in terms of tangible constructs. Enhancing Mathematics Understanding through Visualization: The Role of Dynamical Software brings these conflicting viewpoints together by offering visual representations as a method of mathematics instruction. The book explores the role of technology in providing access to multiple representations of concepts, using software applications to create a rich environment in which a students understanding of mathematical concepts can flourish. Both students and instructors of mathematics at the university level will use this book to implement various novel techniques for the delivery of mathematical concepts in their classrooms. This book is part of the Research Essential collection.
Download or read book Human Model written by Issam Wadi and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Human Model, Dr. Issam Wadi summarises and explains more than 40 years of professional and academic research into human and social behaviour. He examines important aspects in our lives by showing how human and social systems are deeply influenced by universal, natural processes. He shows how research in the natural and social sciences can help to illuminate complex human processes, using friction theory to explain how human beings relate to one another, how resonance theory provides us with a better understanding of mass behaviour, advertising, and marketing, and how feedback theory explains human behaviour from a management perspective. Drawing these parallels between natural and human systems helps to illustrate the way that human beings are embedded within larger, natural processes, as well as supplying a much clearer and easy to understand approach for readers and researchers. With the starting blocks in place, one can then begin to use proven scientific theories and social models to develop more sophisticated analyses and studies of complex social behaviour, from mass movements and crowd psychology to financial markets and economic forecasting. This book is an important milestone in the modelling and understanding of human social behaviour and aims to contribute both to a broader mainstream understanding of these fields and further research through these versatile social modelling tools. Human Model also explains the author’s own ‘Zero Sum Theory’ for explaining happiness in life and how this can be affected by the individual’s own mental models, while providing further reflections on the impact of technology on modern life, social behaviour, the family, and society more broadly.
Download or read book Computer Vision and Graphics written by Leonard Bolc and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: supporting the Conference.
Download or read book Advances in Systems Science written by Jerzy Świątek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the carefully reviewed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Systems Science, presenting recent research findings in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Communication/Networking and Information Technology, Control Theory, Decision Support, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Optimization Techniques, Pattern Recognition, Robotics, Service Science, Web-based Services, Uncertain Systems and Transportation Systems. The International Conference on Systems Science was held in Wroclaw, Poland from September 7 to 9, 2016, and addressed a range of topics, including systems theory, control theory, machine learning, artificial intelligence, signal processing, communication and information technologies, transportation systems, multi-robotic systems and uncertain systems, as well as their applications. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for communication between young and established researchers and practitioners, fostering future joint research in systems science.
Download or read book Community Informatics Design Applied to Digital Social Systems written by Pierre-Léonard Harvey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a Digital Social System Praxis Framework (DSSPF) integrating Computational Media, Evolutionary Systems Thinking and Design Thinking approaches to E-transformation practice, also called Community Informatics Design (CID). The DSSPF framework is intended to create communication spaces dedicated to knowledge production and sharing for social and organizational change. It allows social systems researchers and practitioners to recognize their synergistic roles in the praxis process to shape their future through social innovation projects. This transdisciplinary text provides potential students and practitioners fundamental concepts and tools for such design. It offers resources from the Pragmatic and Systemic philosophy of science for the co-construction of social architectures and infrastructures, and multi-aspectual design methodologies by which government, organizations and civil society can learn to ethically co-design common ground. This approach provides complementary and common patterns from known methods, models, and theories of social systems interventions that could support a generic framing of large scale sociotechnical systems: digital social innovation ecosystem, living Labs, Fab Labs, enterprise collaborative networks. There will be a particular focus on understanding and addressing the dimensions that make people from different communities of practice able to communicate and collaborate through multiple digital media, design platforms, worldviews and modeling approaches.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on E Business Standards and Protocols Documents Data and Advanced Web Technologies written by Kajan, Ejub and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 1021 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electronic business is a major force shaping the digital world. Yet, despite of years of research and standardization efforts, many problems persist that prevent e-business from achieving its full potential. Problems arise from different data vocabularies, classification schemas, document names, structures, exchange formats and their varying roles in business processes. Non-standardized business terminology, lack of common acceptable and understandable processes (grammar), and lack of common dialog rules (protocols) create barriers to improving electronic business processes. Handbook of Research on E-Business Standards and Protocols: Documents, Data and Advanced Web Technologies contains an overview of new achievements in the field of e-business standards and protocols, offers in-depth analysis of and research on the development and deployment of cutting-edge applications, and provides insight into future trends. This book unites new research that promotes harmony and agreement in business processes and attempts to choreograph business protocols and orchestrate semantic alignment between their vocabularies and grammar. Additionally, this Handbook of Research discusses new approaches to improving standards and protocols, which include the use of intelligent agents and Semantic Web technology.
Download or read book Relational Archaeologies written by Christopher Watts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us accept as uncontroversial the belief that the world is comprised of detached and disparate products, all of which are reducible to certain substances. Of those things that are alive, we acknowledge that some have agency while others, such as humans, have more advanced qualities such as consciousness, reason and intentionality. So deeply-seated is this metaphysical belief, along with the related distinctions we draw between subject/object, mind/body and nature/culture that many of us tacitly assume past groups approached and apprehended the world in a similar fashion. Relational Archaeologies questions how such a view of human beings, ‘other-than-human’ creatures and things affects our reconstruction of past beliefs and practices. It proceeds from the position that, in many cases, past societies understood their place in the world as positional rather than categorical, as persons bound up in reticular arrangements with similar and not so similar forms regardless of their substantive qualities. Relational Archaeologies explores this idea by emphasizing how humans, animals and things come to exist by virtue of the dynamic and fluid processes of connection and transaction. In highlighting various counter-Modern notions of what it means ‘to be’ and how these can be teased apart using archaeological materials, contributors provide a range of approaches from primarily theoretical/historicized treatments of the topic to practical applications or case studies from the Americas, the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Download or read book Formal Ontology in Information Systems written by S. Borgo and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA). Its interdisciplinary research focus lies at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in the applications of ontological analysis to conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering, knowledge management, information-systems development, library and information science, scientific research, and semantic technologies in general. This volume presents the proceedings of FOIS 2018, held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 19-21 September. It was the 10th edition and 20th anniversary of the conference series. The volume contains 19 papers grouped into 4 sections: Foundations (7 papers), Agents and Properties (4 papers), Methods and Tools (4 papers), and Applications (4 papers). Regarding the applications of ontologies, a broad spectrum of areas is covered, including in particular biology and medicine, IoT, engineering and linguistics. Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference (FOIS 2018) will be of interest to researchers from all disciplines with an interest in formal ontology.
Download or read book Universal Ontology written by Max Vishnevskiy and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of references: Barrett J. Everett's relative-state formulation of quantum mechanics; Berto F. Impossible worlds; Berto F. How to Sell a Contradiction; Bricker P. Absolute actuality and the plurality of worlds; Bruce C. Schrödinger's Rabbits; Byrne P. The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III; Cameron R.P. Why Lewis's analysis of modality succeeds in its reductive; Carlson E. and Olsson E.J. The presumption of nothingness; Chaitin G.J. The Unknowable; Conee E. Modal realism, counterpart theory, and the possibility of multiversal rectitude; De Rosset L. Possible worlds I: Modal realism; De Witt B. Quantum mechanics and reality; Divers J. Possible Worlds; Dorr С. How to be a modal realist; Edwards P. Why; Everett H. Relative state formulation of quantum mechanics; Everett H. The Theory of the Universal Wave Function; Feser E. Greene on Nozick on nothing; Franrks M.R. The Universe and Multiple Reality; Gale G. Cosmological fecundity: Theories of multiple universes; Gribbin J. In Search of the Multiverse; Grover S. Cosmological fecundity; Grünbaum A. The Poverty of Theistic Cosmology; Grunbaum A. Why is there a world at all, rather than just nothing?; Hawthorne J. A Metaphysician looks at the Everett interpretation; Heller M. The immorality of modal realism, or; Holt J. Why Does the World Exist?; Lewis D. Counterfactuals. Oxford: Blackwell; Lewis D. How many lives has Schrodinger's cat?; Lewis D. On the Plurality of Worlds; Lovell A.C.B. The Individual and the Universe; Lynds P. Why there is something rather than nothing; Mackie J.L. Truth, Probability and Paradox; Many Worlds? Everett, Quantum Theory, and Reality; McDaniel K. Modal realisms; NozickR. Philosophical Explanations; Plantinga A. Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality; Sauchelli A. Concrete possible worlds and counterfactual conditionals; Sheehy P. Theism and modal realism; Sorensen R. Nothingness; Tappenden P. Identity and probability in Everett's multiverse; Tegmark M. Many lives in many worlds; Tegmark M. Our Mathematical Universe; Tipler F.J. Nonlocality as evidence for a multiverse cosmology; Tryon E. Is the universe a vacuum fluctuation?; Tuboly A. Are there possible worlds? Lewis and Everett on the plurality of worlds; Unger P. Minimizing arbitrariness: toward a metaphysics of infinitely many isolated concrete worlds; Vaidman L. Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics; Van Invagen P. Why is there anything at all?; Vilenkin A. Birth of inflationary universes; Wallace D. The Emergent Multiverse; Weatherson B. David Lewis; Wilson A. Modal Metaphysics and the Everett Interpretation; Witherall A. The fundamental question; Byrne P. Plurality of worlds of Hugh Everett; Born M. Continuity, determinism, reality; Weinberg S. Dreams of the Ultimate Theory; V.P. Vizgin The idea of a plurality of worlds; Vilenkin A. The world of many worlds. Physicists in search of other universes; Gapchenko S.Yu. On the multiplicity of worlds; Green B. Hidden Reality: Parallel Worlds and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos; Greenstein J., Zayonts A. Quantum challenge. Modern research into the foundations of quantum mechanics; Goodman N. Ways of creating worlds; Deutsch D. The structure of reality; Kaku M. Parallel Worlds; Karpenko A.S. Philosophical principle of completeness; Lovejoy A. The Great Chain of Being; Lebedev Yu.A. The many-sided universe. Everett problematics; Leibniz G.V. Principles of nature and grace based on reason; Leibniz G.V. On the deep origin of things; Lukasiewicz Jan. On the principle of contradiction in Aristotle; Mensky M.B. Consciousness and quantum mechanics; Nietzsche F. Beyond Good and Evil. Prelude to the philosophy of the future; Heidegger M. Introduction to Metaphysics; Heidegger M. Being and Time; Chalmers D. The Conscious Mind; Epstein M. Philosophy of the Possible.
Download or read book Science and Global Challenges of the 21st Century Science and Technology written by Alvaro Rocha and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises the proceedings of the International Perm Forum “Science and Global Challenges of the 21st Century” held on October 18th – 23rd, 2021, at Perm State University, Perm, Russia. Global challenges, which determine the main trends in the development of social and economic life in the XXI century, require the integration of specialists in various fields of knowledge. That is why the main principle of this edition is interdisciplinarity, the formation of end-to-end innovation chains, including fundamental and applied research, and the wide application of smart innovations, networks, and information technologies. The authors seek to find synergy between technologies and such fields as computer science, geosciences, biology, linguistics, social studies, historical studies, and economics. The book is of interest to researchers seeking nontrivial solutions at the interface of sciences, digital humanities, computational linguistics, cognitive studies, machine learning, and others.
Download or read book Conceptual Categories and the Structure of Reality Theoretical and Empirical Approaches written by Paul M.W. Hackett and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eBook, Conceptual Categories and the Structure of Reality, the title very well describes the book's content. Within the book's pages a selection of academics from a variety of human behaviour, human/social science and humanities disciplines write about their research all of which can be typified by their consideration of how categories are used to structure understanding of phenomena. These authors have considered how reality may be understood through notions such as categorial and structural ontologies, part-whole relatoinships (mereology), the qualitative, quantitative and philosophical use of the facet theory approach to research, mapping sentences and declarative mapping sentence, hermeneutics, concepts and constructs, similarities and differences. The resulting collection presents the foregoing conceptual and empirical approaches to knowledge development in general (chapter 1&3 Hackett); Phillips and Wislons' review of compositional syntax in bird calls (chapter 2); neurobehavioral decision systems (chapter 4 Foxall); representations of human psychological processes (chapter 5 Juan-Miguel López-Gil; Rosa Gil; Roberto García); free associations mirroring and its relation to self- and world-related concepts (chapter 6 Martin Kuška; Radek Trnka; Aleš Antonín Kuběna; Jiří Růžička); local knowledge and going beyond the data (chapter 7 Steven Phillips); categorical etiologies of speech sound disorders (chapter 8 Kelly Farquharson); similarity of visual appearance (chapter 9 Nao Nakatsuji; Hisayasu Ihara; Takeharu Seno; Hiroshi Ito); and a consideration of the seminal writing of David Oderberg's on the categorial classification of reality (chapter 10 Hackett).
Download or read book Being a Teacher Researcher written by Konstantinos Alexakos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a sociocultural approach to critical action research, this book is a primer in doing reflexive, authentic inquiry research in teaching and learning for educators as teacher | researchers. Rather than the artificial dichotomy between theory and practice, the roles of teacher and researcher are instead seen in a dialectic relationship (indicated by the symbol “|” in teacher | researcher) in which each informs and mediates the other in the process of revising and generating new knowledge that is of benefit to those being researched. In addition to providing a theoretical foundation for authentic inquiry, Being a Teacher | Researcher provides a detailed framework with ideas and strategies that interested educators can apply in exploring teaching and learning in both formal and informal settings. It provides concrete examples of how to use authentic inquiry as a basis for collaborating with others to improve the quality of teaching and learning while cogenerating new theory and associated practices that bridge what has been described as a theory-practice divide. Included in this book are how to plan and carry out authentic inquiry studies, choosing appropriate methodologies, methods of data collection and analysis, negotiating research with human participants, using authenticity criteria and characteristics, and addressing challenges and conflicts for teacher | researchers. As a primer, this book serves the needs of many different populations including prospective and practicing teachers, teacher educators, beginning researchers and seasoned researchers who are making changes to what and how they research.
Download or read book Advances in Web Intelligence written by Piotr S. Szczepaniak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-05-24 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the Internet has become a source of data and information of indisputable importance and has immensely gained in acceptance and popularity. The World Wide Web (WWW or Web, for short), frequently named “the nervous system of the infor- tion society,” offers numerous valuable services leaving no doubt about the signi?cance of the Web in our daily activities at work and at home. Consequently, we have a clear aspiration to meet the obvious need for effective use of its potential by making - provements in both the methods and the technology applied. Among the new research directions observable in Web-related applications, intelligent methods from within the broadly perceived topic of soft computing occupy an important place. AWIC, the “Atlantic Web Intelligence Conferences” are intended to be a forum for exchange of new ideas and novel practical solutions in this new and exciting ?eld. The conference was born as an initiative of the WIC-Poland and the WIC-Spain Research Centres, both belonging to the Web Intelligence Consortium – WIC (http://wi-consortium.org/). So far, three AWIC conferences have been held: in Madrid, Spain (2003), in Cancun, Mexico (2004), and in ?ódz, ́ Poland (2005).
