Our study takes place in an European Project LIBRARIES named BAMBI (Better Access to Manuscripts and Browsing of Image). This paper presents a method for multilingual access information. Our approach uses a semantic structure in order to index a document without taking account of its language. This semantic structure is a hierarchical organisation of semantic elements. Each element contains two...

Two experiments provide evidence that our conceptual systems represent hierarchical relations between concepts in more than one way. Specifically, hierarchical relations may be represented via criteria inclusion or kind specification. The experiments provide the first evidence that these two ways of representing hierarchical relations mediate feature inheritance in systematically different ways...

cognitive science has found out that languages typically make use of conceptual metaphors to concretize abstract meanings. conceptual metaphor explains a target domain which is abstract via a source domain which is concrete. in other words, conceptual metaphor compares an abstract domain with a concrete one and thus makes it understandable for listeners/readers. this article studies the concept...

Kyoto Protocol allows developing countries to obtain technology transfer from developed countries under the framework of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). Although South Africa is an ideal country to implement CDM projects, it lags behind many other countries in the number of CDM projects. This result prohibits South Africa to obtain technology transfer. This paper studies what licensing mode ...

This study aims to identify the factors that contribute to the building of a firm’s innovative capacity and to assess the way in which this contributes to our understanding of how much this contributes to improvements in the firm’s performance. A conceptual model is proposed consisting of five separate dimensions: the firm; the entrepreneur; the external business environment; the firm’s innovat...

While much work has focused on the creation of norm aware agents, much less has been concerned with aiding a system designers in understanding the effects of norms on a system. However, since norms are generally pre-determined by designers, providing such support can be critical in enabling norm refinement for more effective or efficient system regulation. In this paper, we address just this pr...

It is argued that timely adaptation of one’s broadly-defined business concept has more to do with entrepreneurial success than having the right concept from the start or being in the right place at the right time. A conceptual model is proposed in which the need for adaptation is linked to three characteristics of the business itself: the level of ambiguity surrounding the venture, the level of...

The case is simple: there is no compelling theoretical argument against a cosmological constant and ΛCDM is the only CDM model that is consistent with all present observations. ΛCDM has two noteworthy features: it can be falsified in the near future (the prediction q0 ∼ − 1 2 is an especially good test), and, if correct, it has important implications for fundamental physics.

This paper presents a flexible querying system of fuzzy RDF annotations which consists in translating fuzzy RDF annotations into fuzzy conceptual graphs and using an “approximate”-projection operation in order to compare fuzzy query graphs with fuzzy annotation graphs. The fuzzy sets in the query graphs having a semantic of preferences are compared with the fuzzy sets in the annotation graphs h...