Socioculturalists are divided on two of the foundational theoretical claims of the paradigm: a process ontology of the social world; and the inseparability of the individual and the group. A process ontology holds that only processes are real; entities, structures or patterns are ephemeral and do not really exist. Inseparability is the claim that the individual and the social cannot be methodol...

Socioculturalists are divided on two of the foundational theoretical claims of the paradigm: a process ontology of the social world, and the inseparability of the individual and the group. A process ontology holds that only processes are real; entities, structures, or patterns are ephemeral and do not really exist. Inseparability is the claim that the individual and the social cannot be methodo...

The question whether an ontology can safely be replaced by another, possibly simpler, one is fundamental for many ontology engineering and maintenance tasks. It underpins, for example, ontology versioning, ontology modularization, forgetting, and knowledge exchange. What ‘safe replacement’ means depends on the intended application of the ontology. If, for example, it is used to query data, then...

We report on the generation of non separable beams produced via the interaction of a linearly polarized beam with a cloud of cold cesium atoms placed in an optical cavity. We convert the squeezing of the two linear polarization modes into quadrature entanglement and show how to find out the best entanglement generated in a two-mode system using the inseparability criterion for continuous variab...

Min-max systems, or min-max-plus systems are algebraic models of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. They are non-linear extension of the well known linear max-plus system models. In this paper, we survey our recent research results related to the structural property ”inseparability” of min-max systems proposed in [24]. It turns out inseparability has very interesting relationship to many aspects o...

In this paper, we study relationships among structural properties of min-max functions and complexity on deciding the sizes of the eigenspaces of minmax functions. We show that strong connectivity implies inseparability; Olsder’s separated systems are separable. A relaxed condition under which inseparability remains equivalent to the balance condition is also presented. The decision problem of ...

The OWL2 profile OWL2QL, based on the DL-Lite family of description logics, is emerging as a major language for developing new ontologies and approximating the existing ones. Its main application is ontology-based data access, where ontologies are used to provide background knowledge for answering queries over data. We investigate the corresponding notion of query inseparability (or equivalence...