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This book provides a de?nition and study of a knowledge
representation and r- soning formalism stemming from conceptual
graphs, while focusing on the com- tational properties of this
formalism. Knowledge can be symbolically represented in many ways.
The knowledge representation and reasoning formalism presented here
is a graph formalism - knowledge is represented by labeled graphs,
in the graph theory sense, and r- soning mechanisms are based on
graph operations, with graph homomorphism at the core. This
formalism can thus be considered as related to semantic networks.
Since their conception, semantic networks have faded out several
times, but have always returned to the limelight. They faded mainly
due to a lack of formal semantics and the limited reasoning tools
proposed. They have, however, always rebounded - cause labeled
graphs, schemas and drawings provide an intuitive and easily und-
standable support to represent knowledge. This formalism has the
visual qualities of any graphic model, and it is logically founded.
This is a key feature because logics has been the foundation for
knowledge representation and reasoning for millennia. The authors
also focus substantially on computational facets of the presented
formalism as they are interested in knowledge representation and
reasoning formalisms upon which knowledge-based systems can be
built to solve real problems. Since object structures are graphs,
naturally graph homomorphism is the key underlying notion and, from
a computational viewpoint, this moors calculus to combinatorics and
to computer science domains in which the
algorithmicqualitiesofgraphshavelongbeenstudied,
asindatabasesandconstraint networks
This book provides a de?nition and study of a knowledge
representation and r- soning formalism stemming from conceptual
graphs, while focusing on the com- tational properties of this
formalism. Knowledge can be symbolically represented in many ways.
The knowledge representation and reasoning formalism presented here
is a graph formalism - knowledge is represented by labeled graphs,
in the graph theory sense, and r- soning mechanisms are based on
graph operations, with graph homomorphism at the core. This
formalism can thus be considered as related to semantic networks.
Since their conception, semantic networks have faded out several
times, but have always returned to the limelight. They faded mainly
due to a lack of formal semantics and the limited reasoning tools
proposed. They have, however, always rebounded - cause labeled
graphs, schemas and drawings provide an intuitive and easily und-
standable support to represent knowledge. This formalism has the
visual qualities of any graphic model, and it is logically founded.
This is a key feature because logics has been the foundation for
knowledge representation and reasoning for millennia. The authors
also focus substantially on computational facets of the presented
formalism as they are interested in knowledge representation and
reasoning formalisms upon which knowledge-based systems can be
built to solve real problems. Since object structures are graphs,
naturally graph homomorphism is the key underlying notion and, from
a computational viewpoint, this moors calculus to combinatorics and
to computer science domains in which the
algorithmicqualitiesofgraphshavelongbeenstudied,
asindatabasesandconstraint networks
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Conceptual Structures: Theory, Tools and Applications - 6th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS'98, Montpellier, France, August, 10-12, 1998, Proceedings (Paperback, 1998 ed.)
Marie-Laure Mugnier, Michel Chein
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R1,697
Discovery Miles 16 970
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th
International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS'98, held in
Montpellier, France, in August 1998.
The 20 revised full papers and 10 research reports presented were
carefully selected from a total of 66 submissions; also included
are three invited contributions. The volume is divided in topical
sections on knowledge representation and knowledge engineering,
tools, conceptual graphs and other models, relationships with
logics, algorithms and complexity, natural language processing, and
applications.
Melania the Elder and her granddaughter Melania the Younger were
major figures in early Christian history, using their wealth,
status, and forceful personalities to shape the development of
nearly every aspect of the religion we now know as Christianity.
This volume examines their influence on late antique Christianity
and provides an insightful portrait of their legacies in the modern
world. Departing from the traditionally patriarchal view, Melania
gives a poignant and sometimes surprising account of how the rise
of Christian institutions in the Roman Empire shaped our
understanding of women's roles in the larger world.
Melania the Elder and her granddaughter Melania the Younger were
major figures in early Christian history, using their wealth,
status, and forceful personalities to shape the development of
nearly every aspect of the religion we now know as Christianity.
This volume examines their influence on late antique Christianity
and provides an insightful portrait of their legacies in the modern
world. Departing from the traditionally patriarchal view, Melania
gives a poignant and sometimes surprising account of how the rise
of Christian institutions in the Roman Empire shaped our
understanding of women's roles in the larger world.
In this collection of essays, scholars from a range of disciplines
explore the activity of knowing in late antiquity by focusing on
thirteen major concepts from the intellectual, social, political,
and cultural history of the period. They ask two questions about
each of these concepts: what did late ancient people know about
them, and how was that knowledge expressed in people's actions?
Late Ancient Knowing integrates intellectual history,
post-structuralist literary theory, and recent trends in cognitive
science to examine the ways that historical thought-worlds both
shaped individual lives and were in turn shaped by the actions of
individuals. Each chapter treats its main concept as a problem both
of knowledge and of practice or behavior. The result is a richly
imagined description of how people of this time understood and
navigated their world, from travel through the countryside and
encounters with demons to philosophical medicine and the etiquette
of imperial courts.
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