Soybean (Glycine max) is a major source of vegetable oil and protein for both animal and human consumption. The completion of soybean genome sequence led to a number of transcriptomic studies (RNA-seq), which provide a resource for gene discovery and functional analysis. Several data-driven (e.g., based on gene expression data) and knowledge-based (e.g., predictions of molecular interactions) m...

Chord formation in western music notations is an intelligent art form which is learnt over the years by a musician to acquire it. Still it is a question of creativity that brings the perfect chord sequence that matches music score. This work focuses on the process of forming chords using a custom-designed knowledgebase (KB) of Music Expert System. An optimal Chord-Set for a given music score is...

The Companions Hybrid-World model defines a new methodology for dialogue. Previous systems were based on a closed world assumption whereby the knowledge of the dialogue system is stored in a knowledgebase and used throughout the conversation. The Hybrid-World model is still based around a knowledgebase (which is used throughout the interaction with the user) but if the user starts talking about...

In the last two decades, various projects and initiatives have conducted research on how to share, exchange, link information from natural science collection objects. This profound (technical) knowledge, standards, tools, best practices are essential development of any new infrastructure facilitating bio- geodiversity. However, knowledge results usually not easily accessible at a single point p...

Measures of quantity of information have been studied extensively for more than fifty years. The seminal work on information theory is by Shannon [67]. This work, based on probability theory, can be used in a logical setting when the worlds are the possible events. This work is also the basis of Lozinskii’s work [48] for defining the quantity of information of a formula (or knowledgebase) in pr...

All decision models use some form of language to describe domain elements and their interactions. The terminology is often specific and even unique to the algorithm and is a choice of designers. Nevertheless the domain elements and concepts of any decision problem are almost never unique and are used and reused in many other decision problems. The same is true about the information about those ...