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This is a theoretical paper about artifacts that have been designed to enable processes of collaborative knowledge creation and innovation. We refer to these artifacts as Enabling Spaces, and they comprise architectural, technological (ICT), social, cognitive, organizational, cultural, as well as emotional dimensions. The paper claims that innovation is a highly challenging social and epistemol...

These notes, from a first course in algebraic topology, introduce the fundamental group and the fundamental groupoid of a topological space and use them to classify covering spaces.

The overall goal is to show that conceptual spaces are more promising than other ways of modelling the semantics of natural language. In particular, I will show how they can be used to model actions and events. I will also outline how conceptual spaces provide a cognitive grounding for word classes, including nouns, adjectives, prepositions and verbs.

We construct large caps in projective spaces of small dimension (up to 11) defined over fields of order at most 9. The constructions are both theoretical and computer-supported. Some more computergenerated 4-dimensional caps over larger fields are also mentioned.

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In this paper, we define a reference conceptual framework to organize ontology knowledge spaces and related semantic collaboration schemes for coordinated and virtual access to heterogeneous and distributed information resources inside and outside the enterprise, at both intraand inter-enterprise level under different collaboration requirements and goals. The framework exploits ontology knowled...

This paper develops a combinatorial description of the extreme points of the core of a necessity measure on a finite space. We use the ingredients of Dempster-Shafer theory to characterize a necessity measure and the extreme points of its core in terms of the Möbius inverse, as well as an interpretation of the elements of the core as obtained through a transfer of probability mass from non-elem...

Coworking (in Spanish Cotrabajo or Trabajo Cooperativo) is defined as a form of work that allows independent professionals entrepreneurs and from different sectors to share a common work space, either physical or virtual, to develop their own projects while, at the same time, enhancing the possibilities for joint initiatives. The first Spanish coworking centres opened in 2007. Since then, the p...

The highly influential framework of conceptual spaces provides a geometric way of representing knowledge. Instances are represented by points in a high-dimensional space and concepts are represented by convex regions in this space. After pointing out a problem with the convexity requirement, we propose a formalization of conceptual spaces based on fuzzy star-shaped sets. Our formalization uses ...