HAKE: A Knowledge Engine Foundation for Human Activity Understanding

Building a Foundation for Better Understanding

Experimental Semiotics: an Engine of Discovery for Understanding Human Communication

The recent growth of Experimental Semiotics (ES) offers us a new option to investigate human communication. We briefly introduce ES, presenting results from three themes of research which emerged within it. Then we illustrate the contribution ES can make to the investigation of human communication systems, particularly in comparison with the other existing options. This comparison highlights ho...

A New Foundation For Knowledge Systems

We propose mathematical foundations for knowledge systems based on the notion of effectively presented domain. The paper aims to give a schematic model for computer’s behavior in changing information environment. In this paper, we focus on computational resources rather than on computer’s particular actions.

Towards a cognitive foundation for knowledge representation

Knowledge engineering, knowledge management and conceptual modelling are concerned with representing knowledge of business and organizational domains. These research areas use ontologies for knowledge representation. Ontologies are understood either in the philosophical sense as firm metaphysical commitments or in the looser sense of dictionaries or taxonomies. This paper critically examines th...

A Foundation for Hybrid Knowledge Bases

Hybrid knowledge bases (HKB’s) [11] were developed to provide formal models for the mediation of data and knowledge bases [14,15]. They are based on Generalized Annotated Logic Programming (GAP)[7] and employ an inference mechanism, HKB-resolution, that is considerably simpler than those that have been proposed for GAP. The simplicity of HKB-resolution is explained in this paper by showing that...