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ICCS
2007
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Historical and Conceptual Foundation of Diagrammatical Ontology
During the Renaissance there was a growing interest for the use of diagrams within conceptual studies. This paper investigates the historical and philosophical foundation of this r...
Peter Øhrstrøm, Sara L. Uckelman, He...
CCGRID
2003
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An Ontology for Scientific Information in a Grid Environment: the Earth System Grid
In the emerging world of Grid Computing, shared computational, data, other distributed resources are becoming available to enable scientific advancement through collaborative rese...
Line Pouchard, Luca Cinquini, Bob Drach, Don Middl...
IJCAI
2001
13 years 7 months ago
Acquisition of Ontological Knowledge from Canonical Documents
This paper describes experiences with quasiautomated creation of a computational ontology for maritime information from a mixed collection of source material. Based on these exper...
Raphael M. Malyankar
AI50
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Philosophical Foundations of AI
Artificial Intelligence was born in 1956 as the off-spring of the newly-created cognitivist paradigm of cognition. As such, it inherited a strong philosophical legacy of functional...
David Vernon, Dermot Furlong
SYNTHESE
2011
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13 years 22 days ago
Modeling reality
: My aim in this paper is to articulate an account of scientific modeling that reconciles pluralism about modeling with a modest form of scientific realism. The central claim of th...
Christopher Pincock