19 research outputs found
Norms and plans as unification criteria for social collectives
No full textBased on the formal-ontological paradigm of Constructive Descriptions
and Situations, we propose a definition of social collectives that includes
social agents, plans, norms, and the conceptual relations between them. We also propose a typology of social collectives, including collection of agents, knowledge community, intentional collective, and intentional normative collective. Our ontology, represented as a first-order theory, provides the expressivity to talk about the contexts (social, informational, circumstantial, and epistemic), in which collectives make and produce sens
FEACE, «I REMATORI DELLE MUSE» E UN CASO DI AUTO-METAPOIESIS SIMPOSIALE (DIONISIO CALCO, FR. 3 E FR. 5 GENT.-PR. = FR. 4 E FR. 5 WEST)
No full textThe ‘you’ addressed at the beginning of the fr. 3 Gent.-Pr. (= 4 West) by Dionysius Chalcus may be recog- nized as the same Phaeax as the one mentioned in v. 5 that is present at the sym- posium. He is the well-known Athenian orator and politician and a contemporary of Alcibiades’s. Phaeax will start (note πέμπει in v. 5) the sympotic chain of songs in praise of a distant friend. The sequence of songs is imagined as the work of the «Muses’ rowers». The rowing metaphor, that is used in a sympotic context once again, is present in fr. 5 Gent.-Pr. (= 5 West), where it describes the dense sequence of drinking cups. The two fragments could represent a case of auto-metapoiesis by the author, that is to say, the retake and variation made by a poet in relation to one of his previous poems that is already known to the symposium audience
- Sappho, a vase painting and the poetry of parting
No full textThe paper examines a representation on a krater of Sappho, reading the complex iconographic schema in combination with specific verses of the poet. The painting is on an Attic calyx krater, now in Bochum, which dates around 480 BC. Interpretation of the vase has long focused only on Sappho, disregarding the rest of the composition. The poet is depicted on one side, with her name (ΣΑΦΦΟ). A female figure is painted on side B and is indicated by an inscription as ΗΕ ΠΑΙΣ “the girl”. The author of the paper attempts a different interpretation, taking into account both sides of the krater, as well as of the verses of the poet
La perizia grafica e documentale nel caso Lindbergh
No full textGraphology experts operate in two main areas: verification of the authenticity of a piece of writing in cases of imitations or counterfeits, and the search for the identity of the writer in the case of anonymous letters. Letters have an expressive power relating to the author, as the author unwittingly expresses a complete set “fugitive gestures”. Such individual habitual slips are of particular value as they escape conscious control. In an investigation it is a essential to go from testimony to proof, and scientific research therefore aims at finding something, rather than someone. These somethings are of demonstrative objective value, and are called “silent witnesses”. In the case of the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder in America in 1932, the 14 ransom letters sent by the kidnapper turned out to be the main indictment for the prime suspect, Bruno Richard Hauptmann: the comparison between his handwriting and that of the anonymous letters represented a reliable clue to the kidnapper’s identity, thus showing graphology expertise to be a valid investigative technique
DOLCE ergo SUMO: On Foundational and Domain Models in SWIntO (SmartWeb Integrated Ontology)
No full textOberle D, Ankolekar A, Hitzler P, et al. DOLCE ergo SUMO: On Foundational and Domain Models in SWIntO (SmartWeb Integrated Ontology). Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web. 2007;5(3):156-174
A Theoretical Framework for Ontology Evaluation and Validation
No full textThe need for evaluation-methodologies emerged very early in the field of ontology development and reuse and it has grown steadily. Yet, no comprehensive and global approach to this problem has been proposed to date
A metaontology-based framework for ontology evaluation and selection
No full textThe paper exemplifies the application of two models for ontology description, evaluation and selection. O 2 is a metaontology (an ontology that has ontologies and ontology elements in its domain), based on semiotics, which describes four dimensions of ontologies as communication objects: structural, formal, conceptual, and pragmatical. Starting from a large set, measures have been singled out in order to evaluate ontologies. oQual is an ontology of ontology selection which provides a formal tool to devise the best set of criteria for an ontology-based project, and to match ontologies to those criteria. A set of criteria is called a qood. In the paper we briefly describe the models and provide a small example of applying a qood according to QoodGrid, a methodology for ontology evaluation for one’s purposes (the basis for selection). 1
voce "Bioetica"
No full textThe issue is more and more discussed since problems involved by medical tecniques put in front of the legislator difficult questions concerning the life and death of the human being. The author discusses how constitutional principles can help the legislator and the judge to face these issues
SIMILARITY USED IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE NEED TO REFACTORYZE AN ONTOLOGY
No full textLately, different ontologies were developed, manually, semi-automatically or automatically. Some are enriched continuously. In the case in which the ontology development process is involving too many resources, and take place in a long period of time, having as result a very large scale ontology, the quality of the ontology may suffer. And the misplaced elements must be discovered, in order to make possible the refactorization of the ontology. In this paper is proposed a method of spotting the most susceptible misplaced elements using a natural language technique, text similarity.ontology, similarity, refactorization, dictionary based methods
