Abstract We perform, to our best knowledge, the first systematic mapping of foundational economy (FE) at sub-national level by looking FE employment in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2016. show that itself not only suffered less than traded activities from decline during Great Recession 2007–2009 but was also a domain substantial job creation post-crisis recovery. At same time, with higher de...

Introduction: The purpose of the current research was to explain the healthy lifestyle with an emphasis on the sports activities of the elderly in the country based on the data theory of the foundation. Method: The current study is a prospective qualitative applied study based on the foundational data theory, and in terms of data analysis method of analytical-exploratory type and data collecti...

We describe an alternative interpretation of the AGM postulates for belief change (Alchourrón et al., 1985; Gärdenfors, 1988) in a foundational framework of epistemic states suggested by Bochman (1997). Though foundational contractions constitute a new kind of belief contractions, incompatible with AGM postulates, a broad class of preferential AGM contractions is shown to be revisionequivalent ...

It is a common and useful task in a web of trust to evaluate the trust value between two nodes using intermediate nodes. This technique is widely used when the source node has no experience of direct interaction with the target node, or the direct trust is not reliable enough by itself. If trust is used to support decision-making, it is important to have not only an accurate estimate of trust, ...

Despite (i) the recognized benefits of using ontologies in semantic EAI initiatives, (ii) the benefits of using foundational ontologies for promoting meaning negotiation and common understanding, and (iii) the importance of the semantic integration issue in EAI area, foundational ontologies have not yet become widely adopted in EAI initiatives for dealing with semantic conflicts. This has led u...

Foundational ontologies are axiomatic theories about highlevel domain-independent categories of the real world. They constitute toolboxes of eminently reusable information modelling primitives for building application ontologies about specific domains. The design of foundational ontologies confronts the conceptual modeller with completely new challenges in respect of their content as well as th...

We present a preliminary high-level formal theory, grounded on knowledge representation techniques and foundational ontologies, for the uniform and integrated representation of the different kinds of (qualitative and quantitative) knowledge involved in the designing process. We discuss the conceptual nature of engineering design by individuating and analyzing the involved notions. These notions...