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IPMU
1994
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Philosophical Foundations for Causal Networks
Bayes nets are seeing increasing use in expert systems [2, 6], and structural equations models continue to be popular in many branches of the social sciences [1]. Both types of mod...
Glenn Shafer
GEOS
2005
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
Comparing Representations of Geographic Knowledge Expressed as Conceptual Graphs
Abstract. Conceptual Graphs are a very powerful knowledge and meaning representation formalism grounded on deep philosophical, linguistic and object oriented principles [1], [2]. C...
Athanasios Karalopoulos, Margarita Kokla, Marinos ...
IFIP
2004
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
The Driving Philosophers
We introduce a new synchronization problem in mobile ad-hoc systems: the Driving Philosophers. In this problem, an unbounded number of driving philosophers (processes) access a rou...
Sébastien Baehni, Roberto Baldoni, Rachid G...
MSV
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Correctness Criteria for Models' Validation- A Philosophical Perspective
Valid models are central to the existence of Computer science as in most other disciplines, but at what point can one say that a model is valid and hence correct? is often taken t...
Ijeoma Sandra Irobi, Johan Andersson, Anders Wall
FOIS
2001
13 years 8 months ago
Ontology: its transformation from philosophy to information systems
- It is no secret that the multidisciplinary sphere of information systems has borrowed the term `ontology' from philosophy, and reinterpreted it to be more suitable for infor...
Gloria L. Zúñiga