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AO
2010
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13 years 11 months ago
Ontological realism: Methodology or misdirection?
In a series of papers over a period of several years Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters have offered a number of cogent criticisms of historical approaches to creating, maintaining, a...
Gary H. Merrill
MTA
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Enquiring MPEG-7 based multimedia ontologies
Machine understandable metadata forms the main prerequisite for the intelligent services envisaged in a Web, which going beyond mere data exchange and provides for effective conten...
Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Vassilis Tzouvaras, Ioannis ...
PROLAMAT
2001
14 years 9 days ago
Logical Communication Levels in an Intelligent Flexible Manufacturing System
: In most cases in intelligent manufacturing applications the communication functions depend on the capabilities of the intelligent tool (e.g. expert system). Three different types...
J. Nacsa
CAISE
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Matchmaking-based Ontology Evolution Methodology
In this paper, we present the H-Change methodology we have specifically conceived for evolving independent ontologies in open networked systems. Furthermore, we describe the change...
Silvana Castano, Alfio Ferrara, Stefano Montanelli
COMPLEXITY
2007
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13 years 11 months ago
Emergence is coupled to scope, not level
Since its application to systems, emergence has been explained in terms of levels of observation. This approach has led to confusion, contradiction, incoherence and at times mysti...
Alex J. Ryan