the present paper aims at clarifying the role of the concept “walåyah” in the philosophy of the unity of being in islamic philosophy (waedat al-wujid). the concept “walåyah” is deeply built into the philosophic system of the islamic theory of being, and moreover the dynamic aspect of this concept has always activated islamic philosophy of existence and stimulated the thought of islamic philosop...

Organizations are changing at an ever-faster pace, as they try to keep up with globalization and the information revolution. Unfortunately, information systems technologies do not support system evolution well, making information systems a roadblock to organizational change. We propose to view information systems as social structures and define methodologies which develop and evolve seamlessly ...

One of possible uses of domain ontology as prior knowledge in KDD is the generation of explanations for discovered hypotheses. We developed an ontology covering a subset of concepts and relations relevant for ‘municipal social reality’, and manually mapped these entities on the structure of sociological data; the data originated from a comprehensive opinion poll over citizens of the capital cit...