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Essence and Ontology
… 4, of the concept of an <italic>individuational ontology</italic>, which results from a generalization and modification of Peter Aczel's approach to the theory of non-well-founded sets. On this basis, chapter 5 introduces relativized concepts of essence and essentiality, where the relativization …
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Logic, semantics, ontology
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1991.
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Ontology alignment in the presence of a domain ontology : finding protein homology
… large ontologies has brought forth the need for ontology management strategies. Ontology alignment and merging techniques are standard operations for ontology management. Accurate ontology alignment methods are typically semi-automatic, meaning they require periodic user input. This becomes …
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Ontology driven information retrieval.
Ontology-driven information retrieval deals with the use of entities specified in domain ontologies to enhance search and browse. The entities or concepts of lightweight ontological resources are traditionally used to index resources in specialised domains. Indexing with concepts is often achieved …
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Ontology-based image categorization
… system and is more advanced than previous non-ontology based approaches. We test our approach on two fine-grained image categorization datasets. The experimental results demonstrate that our approach not only outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches but also identifies semantically …
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The Ontology of Persistence
In 1986, David Lewis offered what he thought would be the decisive objection against endurantism, showing it to be an implausible theory. The problem of temporary intrinsics stated that an object cannot have two complementary intrinsic properties while maintaining identity, as endurantists claim. …
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Towards an Ontology of Software
… software is just code, presents both in the ontology of software literature and in the software maintenance tools. This notion is obviously wrong because it doesn’t account for the fact that whenever someone fixes a bug, the code of a software system changes, but nobody believes that this is …
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Ontology in Emmanuel Levinas's Philosophy
<p>Taking the notion of the il y a, its prehistory and eventual fate, as an index of the development of the problem of being in Levinas's work, this thesis argues that Levinas's philosophy does not respond to a consistently articulated problem. He eventually transforms ontological evil into social …
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A foundation for ontology modularisation
… and not always necessary. Prospective ontology developers could consider using existing ontologies that are of good quality. However, an entire large ontology is not always required for a particular application, but a subset of the knowledge may be relevant. Modularity deals with …
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Ontology-driven agent-based modeling approach
Social phenomena represent a complex subject for scientific study due to the inherent complexities of human behavior, societal structures, and community dynamics. This interplay can be multifaceted and exhibit stochastic properties, rendering their manual reproduction or replication through …
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Data curation with ontology functional dependences
… by defining, discovering, and cleaning Ontology Functional Dependencies. We define their theoretical foundations, including sound and complete axioms, and linear inference procedure. We develop algorithms for data verification, constraint discovery, data cleaning, ontology versus data …
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Harvesting online ontologies for ontology evolution
… new domain changes, and applying them to the ontology is tedious and time-consuming.<br></br><br></br> Our hypothesis is that online ontologies can provide background knowledge to decrease user efforts during ontology evolution, by integrating new domain concepts through automated relation …
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Enhancing web marketing by using ontology
… customers. The Web Marketing Project with Ontology Support has the purpose to find and improve marketing knowledge. In the Web Marketing Project, association rules about marketing knowledge have been derived by applying data mining algorithms to existing Web users' data. An ontology was …
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The Ontology and Ethics of Money.
This thesis aims to explore the ontology and the normative nature of money. Part 1 aims to provide a philosophical and methodological toolbox with which to consider the ontology of money and the boundary between market and non-market spheres. From a Critical Realist perspective, it blocks the slide …
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