Foundations Of Knowledge Systems

Author : Gerd Wagner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461557234

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Foundations of Knowledge Systems by Gerd Wagner Pdf

One of the main uses of computer systems is the management of large amounts of symbolic information representing the state of some application domain, such as information about all the people I communicate with in my personal address database, or relevant parts of the outer space in the knowledge base of a NASA space mission. While database management systems offer only the basic services of information storage and retrieval, more powerful knowledge systems offer, in addition, a number of advanced services such as deductive and abductive reasoning for the purpose of finding explanations and diagnoses, or generating plans. In order to design and understand database and knowledge-based applications it is important to build upon well-established conceptual and mathematical foundations. What are the principles behind database and knowledge systems? What are their major components? Which are the important cases of knowledge systems? What are their limitations? Addressing these questions, and discussing the fundamental issues of information update, knowledge assimilation, integrity maintenance, and inference-based query answering, is the purpose of this book. Foundations of Databases and Knowledge Systems covers both basic and advanced topics. It may be used as the textbook of a course offering a broad introduction to databases and knowledge bases, or it may be used as an additional textbook in a course on databases or Artificial Intelligence. Professionals and researchers interested in learning about new developments will benefit from the encyclopedic character of the book, which provides organized access to many advanced concepts in the theory of databases and knowledge bases.

Author : Steve Fuller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136389825

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Knowledge Management Foundations by Steve Fuller Pdf

'Knowledge Management Foundations' is just what it claims, the first attempt to provide a secure intellectual footing for the myriad of practices called "knowledge management." A breath of fresh air from the usual KM gurus, Fuller openly admits that the advent of KM is a mixed blessing that often amounts to the conduct of traditional management by subtler means. However, Fuller's deep understanding of both the history of management theory and knowledge production more generally enables him to separate the wheat from the chaff of the KM literature. This ground-breaking book will prove of interest to both academics and practitioners of knowledge management. It highlights the ways in which KM has challenged the values associated with knowledge that academics have taken for granted for centuries. At the same time, Fuller resists the conclusion of many KM gurus, that the value of knowledge lies in whatever the market will bear in the short term. He pays special attention to how information technology has not only facilitated knowledge work but also has radically altered its nature. There are chapters devoted to the revolution in intellectual property and an evaluation of peer review as a quality control mechanism. The book culminates in a positive re-evaluation of universities as knowledge producing institutions from which the corporate sector still has much to learn.

Author : Mark Stefik
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780080509167

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Introduction to Knowledge Systems by Mark Stefik Pdf

Focusing on fundamental scientific and engineering issues, this book communicates the principles of building and using knowledge systems from the conceptual standpoint as well as the practical. Previous treatments of knowledge systems have focused on applications within a particular field, or on symbol-level representations, such as the use of frame and rule representations. Introduction to Knowledge Systems presents fundamentals of symbol-level representations including representations for time, space, uncertainty, and vagueness. It also compares the knowledge-level organizations for three common knowledge-intensive tasks: classification, configuration, and diagnosis. The art of building knowledge systems incorporates computer science theory, programming practice, and psychology. The scope of this book is appropriately broad, ranging from the design of hierarchical search algorithms to techniques for acquiring the task-specific knowledge needed for successful applications. Each chapter proceeds from concepts to applications, and closes with a brief tour of current research topics and open issues. Readers will come away with a solid foundation that will enable them to create real-world knowledge systems using whatever tools and programming languages are most current and appropriate.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computer science
ISBN : OCLC:57552033

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Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems by Anonim Pdf

Author : Flavio Ferrarotti,Stefan Woltran
Publisher : Springer
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319900506

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Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems by Flavio Ferrarotti,Stefan Woltran Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2018, held in Budapest, Hungary, in May 2018.The 20 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers address various topics such as big data; database design; dynamics of information; information fusion; integrity and constraint management; intelligent agents; knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge representation, reasoning and planning; logics in databases and AI; mathematical foundations; security in information and knowledge systems; semi-structured data and XML; social computing; the semantic web and knowledge management; and the world wide web.​

Author : Andreas Herzig,Juha Kontinen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030399511

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Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems by Andreas Herzig,Juha Kontinen Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2020, held in Dortmund, Germany, in February 2020. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers address various topics such as big data; database design; dynamics of information; information fusion; integrity and constraint management; intelligent agents; knowledge discovery and information retrieval; knowledge representation, reasoning and planning; logics in databases and AI; mathematical foundations; security in information and knowledge systems; semi-structured data and XML; social computing; the semantic web and knowledge management; and the world wide web.​

Author : Steve Fuller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780750673655

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Knowledge Management Foundations by Steve Fuller Pdf

This text succinctly teaches new and experienced knowledge professionals the fundamental concepts and theories defining the knowledge management discipline. The book prepares readers to develop KM strategies by pragmatically explaining both what it is and why it is essential for success.

Author : Thomas Eiter,Klaus-Dieter Schewe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540432203

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Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems by Thomas Eiter,Klaus-Dieter Schewe Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2002, held at Salzau Castle, Germany in February 2002. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 55 submissions. All current issues on the foundations and mathematics of advanced information systems and knowledge processing are addressed.

Author : Raymond Reiter
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262264315

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Knowledge in Action by Raymond Reiter Pdf

Specifying and implementing dynamical systems with the situation calculus. Modeling and implementing dynamical systems is a central problem in artificial intelligence, robotics, software agents, simulation, decision and control theory, and many other disciplines. In recent years, a new approach to representing such systems, grounded in mathematical logic, has been developed within the AI knowledge-representation community. This book presents a comprehensive treatment of these ideas, basing its theoretical and implementation foundations on the situation calculus, a dialect of first-order logic. Within this framework, it develops many features of dynamical systems modeling, including time, processes, concurrency, exogenous events, reactivity, sensing and knowledge, probabilistic uncertainty, and decision theory. It also describes and implements a new family of high-level programming languages suitable for writing control programs for dynamical systems. Finally, it includes situation calculus specifications for a wide range of examples drawn from cognitive robotics, planning, simulation, databases, and decision theory, together with all the implementation code for these examples. This code is available on the book's Web site.

Author : Thomas Eiter,Klaus-Dieter Schewe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474928252

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Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems by Thomas Eiter,Klaus-Dieter Schewe Pdf

Author : Christoph Beierle,Carlo Meghini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319049397

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Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems by Christoph Beierle,Carlo Meghini Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2014, held in Bordeaux, France, in March 2014. The 14 revised full papers presented together with 5 revised short papers and two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers address various topics such as database design, dynamics of information, information fusion, integrity and constraint management, intelligent agents, knowledge discovery and information retrieval, knowledge representation, reasoning and planning, logics in databases and AI, mathematical foundations, security in information and knowledge Systems, semi-structured data and XML, social computing, the semantic Web and knowledge management as well as the WWW.

Author : Dietmar Seipel,Jose M. Turull-Torres
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540246275

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Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems by Dietmar Seipel,Jose M. Turull-Torres Pdf

This volume contains the papers presented at the 3rd International Symposium onFoundationsofInformationandKnowledgeSystems(FoIKS2004), whichwas held in Castle Wilhelminenberg, Vienna, Austria, from February 17th to 20th, 2004. FoIKS is a biennial event focussing on theoretical foundations of information and knowledge systems. It aims at bringing together researchers working on the theoretical foundations of information and knowledge systems and attracting researchers working in mathematical?elds such as discrete mathematics, c- binatorics, logics, and?nite model theory who are interested in applying their theories to research on database and knowledge base theory. FoIKS took up the tradition of the conference series Mathematical Fun- mentals of Database Systems (MFDBS) which enabled East-West collaboration in the?eld of database theory. The?rst FoIKS symposium was held in Burg, Spreewald (Germany) in 2000, and the second FoIKS symposium was held in SalzauCastle(Germany)in2002. FormerMFDBSconferenceswereheldinDr- den (Germany) in 1987, Visegrþ ad (Hungary) in 1989, and in Rostock (Germany) in 1991. Proceedings of these previous events were published by Springer-Verlag as volumes 305, 364, 495, 1762, and 2284 of the LNCS series, respectively. In addition the FoIKS symposium was intended to be a forum for intensive discussions. For this reason the time slots for long and short contributions were 50 and 30 minutes, respectively, followed by 20 and 10 minutes for discussions, respectively. Furthermore, participants were asked in advance to prepare to act as correspondents for the contributions of other authors. There were also special sessions for the presentation and discussion of open research problems.

Author : Thomas Eiter,Klaus-Dieter Schewe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540457589

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Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems by Thomas Eiter,Klaus-Dieter Schewe Pdf

This volume contains the papers presented at the “Second International S- posium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems” (FoIKS 2002), which was held in Schloß Salzau, Germany from February 20th to 23rd, 2002. FoIKS is a biennial event focusing on theoretical foundations of information and knowledge systems. It aims to bring together researchers working on the theoretical foundations of information and knowledge systems and to attract researchers working in mathematical ?elds such as discrete mathematics, c- binatorics, logics, and ?nite model theory who are interested in applying their theories to research on database and knowledge base theory. FoIKS took up the tradition of the conference series “Mathematical Fundamentals of Database S- tems” (MFDBS) which enabled East-West collaboration in the ?eld of database theory. The ?rst FoIKS symposium was held in Burg, Spreewald (Germany) in 2000. Former MFDBS conferences were held in Dresden (Germany) in 1987, Visegr ́ ad (Hungary) in 1989, and in Rostock (Germany) in 1991. Proceedings of these previous events were published by Springer-Verlag as volumes 305, 364, 495, and 1762 of the LNCS series. In addition the FoIKS symposium is intended to be a forum for intensive d- cussions. For this reason the time slot of long and short contributions is 60 and 30 minutes respectively, followed by 30 and 15 minutes for discussions, respectively. Furthermore, participants are asked in advance to prepare as correspondents to a contribution of another author. There are also special sessions for the pres- tation and discussion of open research problems.

Author : Ivan Varzinczak
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-09
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783031113215

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Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems by Ivan Varzinczak Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2022, held in Helsinki, Finland, in June 2022. The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The papers address various topics such as information and knowledge systems, including submissions that apply ideas, theories or methods from specific disciplines to information and knowledge systems. Examples of such disciplines are discrete mathematics, logic and algebra, model theory, databases, information theory, complexity theory, algorithmics and computation, statistics and optimization.

Author : Thomas Lukasiewicz,Attila Sali
Publisher : Springer
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783642284724

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Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems by Thomas Lukasiewicz,Attila Sali Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2012, held in Kiel, Germany, in March 2012. The 12 regular and 8 short papers, presented together with two invited talks in full paper-length, were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The contributions cover foundational aspects of information and knowledge systems. These include the application of ideas, theories or methods from specific disciplines to information and knowledge systems, such as discrete mathematics, logic and algebra, model theory, informaiton theory, complexity theory, algorithmics and computation, statistics, and optimization.