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2007
13 years 9 months ago
OKKAM: Enabling a Web of Entities
Already in the early 14th century, the philosopher William of Ockham created the philosophical principle known as Ockham’s Razor, which can be translated from Latin as ”entiti...
Paolo Bouquet, Heiko Stoermer, Daniel Giacomuzzi
WM
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Knowledge Management from the ontological Standpoint
: What is an adequate philosophy for knowledge management for an ontologist working in information science? I will contend that the relevant part of knowledge management, namely th...
Pierre Grenon
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
The World as Evolving Information
Abstract. This philosophical paper discusses the benefits of describing the world as information, especially in the study of the evolution of life and cognition. Traditional studi...
Carlos Gershenson
ALIFE
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Autopoiesis and Natural Drift: Genetic Information, Reproduction, and Evolution Revisited
The contribution of the theory of autopoiesis to the definition of life and biological theory affirms biological autonomy as a central notion of scientific and philosophical inquir...
Arantza Etxeberria
CAISE
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Classification and Ontological Aspects in Software Engineering
The organization of objects into classes and categories is an essential task in the process of forming concepts. Within computer science, this classification activity must be suppo...
María del Pilar Romay, Carlos E. Cuesta