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FOIS
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Ontology: its transformation from philosophy to information systems
- It is no secret that the multidisciplinary sphere of information systems has borrowed the term `ontology' from philosophy, and reinterpreted it to be more suitable for infor...
Gloria L. Zúñiga
CORR
2011
Springer
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12 years 11 months ago
An overview of Ciao and its design philosophy
We provide an overall description of the Ciao multiparadigm programming system emphasizing some of the novel aspects and motivations behind its design and implementation. An impor...
Manuel V. Hermenegildo, Francisco Bueno, Manuel Ca...
ECIS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
A critique of statistical modelling from a critical realist perspective
Most published research in information systems is underpinned by a positivist or empiricist philosophy. This generally involves the collection of quantitative data and its subsequ...
John Mingers
WSPI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Ontology: The Discipline and the Tool
Abstract. The fields of philosophy and informatics entertain two somewhat different conceptions of ontology. Philosophical ontology is a branch of metaphysics dating back at least ...
Doug Mayhew, Dirk Siebert
CONSTRAINTS
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Philosophy of the MiniZinc challenge
MiniZinc arose as a response to the extended discussion at CP2006 of the need for a standard modelling language for CP. This is a challenging problem, and we believe MiniZinc makes...
Peter J. Stuckey, Ralph Becket, Julien Fischer