Ontologies have proven its worth for knowledge representation and in the semantic web. Moreover, sharing and/or reuse a common understanding of information about explicit domains among people is among the utmost motive for the development of ontologies. In literature there are numbers of ontologies addressing various domains or disciplines. Ontological engineering is the discipline that deals w...

 The prospects of integrating full-blown biological taxonomies into an ontological reasoning framework are reviewed. Traditionally ontological representations of taxonomy have adopted the model of a single and static hierarchy. This model is contrasted with a more realistic situation involving dynamic revisions of particular groups and alignments among alternative taxonomic perspectives. Taxon...

primordial nature, is the basis of islamic anthropology. according to the principles of transcendental philosophy could provide a tenable explanation of the nature. the nature in its specific sense is insight and tendencies of human nature. primordial nature can be regarded in terms of both ontological and epistemological notions. the nature in general epistemology could be defensible on the ba...

breakeven analysis is one of the most important existent tools for decision-making in agriculture. this technique used for analysis of different budget components about irrigated wheat crop in marvdasht township. the required data and information were collected via 154 questionnaires and using the stratified random sampling method during 2004-2005. results show that farmer's profit (rls. 4...

Service management involves building new services by combining and recombining processes and routines. In this paper, we examine the ontological and epistemological perspectives that inform our understanding of the chunks of functionality that are being recombined. Based on a review of 367 influential articles, we identify two very different sets of assumptions about the nature of processes and...

In spite of their wide acceptance in other fields, phenomenological research methods have been greatly neglected by the IT community. In this paper, different validity threats that stem from the ontological and epistemological basis of this methodology are discussed and illustrated with a research project on IT-driven radical organizational change. In this way, it intends to provide practical g...