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Applying experienceware to support ontology deployment
No full textExperienceware is a paradigm which emerged in the late eighties and evolved during the nineties, resulting in technologies such as experience factories and their constituent experience bases. These are designed to manage experiences collected throughout the life-cycle of a software project. Ontologies emerged round about the same time as a way to represent consensual knowledge about a domain of interest in reusable and sharable formats. Despite their diverse origins and ways of development, there is an overlap of scope regarding one of their goals: to support reuse. In this paper we make use of this overlap by applying the experience factories paradigm to ontology deployment and in particular, to support ontology verification
A case study in applying Ontologies to augment and reason about the correctness of Specifications
No full textIn this paper we investigate how software specifications can benefit from the presence of formal ontologies to augment and enrich their context. This makes it possible to verify the correctness of the specification with respect to formally represented domain knowledge. We present a meta-interpretation technique that allows us to perform checks for conceptual error occurrences in specifications. We illustrate this approach through a case study: we augmented an existing formal specification presented by Luqi & Cooke with a formal ontology produced by the Information Sciences Institute at USC, the AIRCRAFT ontology. In addition, we explore how we can build and use application specific ontological constraints to detect conceptual errors in specifications
Use of formal ontologies to support error checking in specifications
No full textThis paper explores the possibility of using formal ontologies to support detection of conceptual errors in specifications. We define a conceptual error as a misunderstanding of the application domain knowledge which results in undesirable behaviour of the software system. We explain how to use formal ontologies, and in particular ontological constraints, to tackle this problem. We present a flexible architecture based on meta interpretation in logic programming in which the specification is viewed as a multilayer design. We illustrate the significance of this approach for the software and ontology engineering community via an example case in the domain of ecological modelling
Manufacturing report fails the challenge. by David Robertson
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tag=10 data=The AMC report is persuasive because it makes all the correct gestures towards lowering protection, fostering microeconomic reforms, improving relations in the workplace, promoting competition and so on.
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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Introducing the Field: Conspiracy Theory in, about, and as Religion
No full textThe last decade has seen a rapid increase in interest in conspiracy theories within the study of religion, as demonstrated by several chapters on the topic in textbooks and anthologies, and panels at major academic conferences. An obvious reason for this is the discourse around religion, politics, and terrorism, in which conspiratorial narratives often connect the three domains. But, we argue, religious studies may also stand to make considerable theoretical gains by engaging conspiracy theories in light of the major developments in the field since the 1990s
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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