This paper presents the outline of a formal ontology of contexts. More specifically, it deals with the ontology of ecological contexts (niches, habitats, environments, ambients) an...
This paper presents a practical application of context for the evaluation of semantic similarity. The work is based on a new model for the assessment of semantic similarity among ...
Following the ecological approach to visual perception, this paper presents an innovative framework for the design of multimodal systems. The proposal emphasises the role of the vi...
Antonella De Angeli, Laurent Romary, Frederic Wolf...
Abstract. The basic Event Calculus is extended by a Calculus of Narrative Context, to allow for reasoning about counterfactuals. Different hypothetical courses of events are disti...
Appeared in: P. Bouquet, P. Br´ezillon, L. Serafini, M. Benerecetti, F. Castellani (Eds.), 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONT...
When modelling complex systems one can not include all the causal factors, but one has to settle for partial models. This is alright if the factors left out are either so constant...
We survey some issues that relate to context dependence and context sensitivity in the development of software, particularly in relation to information systems by defining a range...
AI and psychological approaches to context are contrasted and the dynamic and automatic nature of the continuous context change in human cognition is emphasized. A dynamic theory o...
Abstract. Temporal reference in natural language is inherently context dependent: what counts as a moment in one context may be structurally analysed in another context, and vice v...