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2008
13 years 9 months ago
An Ontology for Grounding Vague Geographic Terms
Many geographic terms, such as "river" and "lake", are vague, with no clear boundaries of application. In particular, the spatial extent of such features is oft...
Brandon Bennett, David Mallenby, Allan Third
FOIS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Nontological Engineering
This article reflects an ongoing effort to systematize the use of terms applied by philosophers and computer scientists in the context of ontology and ontological engineering. We s...
Waclaw Kusnierczyk
FOIS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
A theory of granular parthood based on qualitative cardinality and size measures
We present a theory of granular parthood based on qualitative cardinality and size measures. Using standard mereological relations and qualitative, contextdependent relations such ...
Thomas Bittner, Maureen Donnelly
FOIS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
PR-OWL: A Framework for Probabilistic Ontologies
Abstract. Across a wide range of domains, there is an urgent need for a wellfounded approach to incorporating uncertain and incomplete knowledge into formal domain ontologies. Alth...
Paulo Cesar G. da Costa, Kathryn B. Laskey
FOIS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Towards an ontology of agency and action From STIT to OntoSTIT+
Abstract. A variety of disciplines and research areas have separately studied the notions of action, agents and agency, but no integrated and well-developed formal ontology for the...
Nicolas Troquard, Robert Trypuz, Laure Vieu