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A note on the transitivity of parthood
Abstract. That parthood is a transitive relation is among the most basic principles of classical mereology. Alas, it is also very controversial. In a recent paper, Ingvar Johansson...
Achille C. Varzi
AO
2006
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An ontological model of device function: industrial deployment and lessons learned
Functionality is one of the key concepts of knowledge about artifacts. Functional knowledge shows a part of designer's intention (so-called design rationale), and thus its sha...
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Yusuke Koji, Riichiro Mizoguch...
AO
2006
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Towards ontologies for formalizing modularization and communication in large software systems
Large software systems are modularized in order to improve manageability. The parts of the software system communicate in order to achieve the desired functionality. To better und...
Daniel Oberle, Steffen Lamparter, Stephan Grimm, D...
AO
2006
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Formal ontology meets industry
in ontology is quite abstract and often based on toy-examples to the point that the gap between the work of theoreticians and the needs of real applications is too wide to be cross...
Stefano Borgo, Matteo Cristani, Roberta Cuel
FGR
2006
IEEE
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A Near-infrared Image Based Face Recognition System
In this paper, we present a near infrared (NIR) image based face recognition system. Firstly, we describe a design of NIR image capture device which minimizes influence of enviro...
Stan Z. Li, Lun Zhang, ShengCai Liao, XiangXin Zhu...