The application of digital humanities techniques to philosophy is changing the way scholars approach the discipline. This paper seeks to open a discussion about the difficulties, methods, opportunities, and dangers of creating and utilizing a formal representation of the discipline of philosophy. We review our current project, the Indiana Philosophy Ontology (InPhO) project, which uses a combin...

OBJECTIVE – The objective of this paper is to describe a case study where Bayesian Networks (BNs) were used to construct an expert-based Web effort model. METHOD – We built a single-company BN model solely elicited from expert knowledge, where the domain expert was an experienced Web project manager from a small Web company in Auckland, New Zealand. This model was validated using data from eigh...

The initial steps in carrying out a feasibility analysis for a web project, based on information obtained interactively from a prospective client, are modelled as a rulebased expert system that draws on empirical formulas to provide a quantitative valuation of the clients replies. The model is centred in the pre-design phase, concerned in particular with ascertaining whether coherent aims, mess...

This paper presents generally applicable techniques drawn from the experience of managing the UK's Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP) Economics Consortium project to develop WinEconÐa computer-based package covering an entire first-year introductory economics degree course. The WinEcon project has been a highly successful, large-scale multimedia project. It has received multiple ...

As claimed in the Semantic Web project, a huge amount of physically distributed interacting software agents could find the semantic of available resources and answer more relevantly to users' requests if the content of these resources would be represented with formal semantic concepts defined in ontologies. Because Web information sources are highly dynamic and conceptually heterogeneous, one o...

One of the major concerns of a distributed expert system is to provide optimal solution to a business process characterized by an operations research model. Based on the concept of dynamic programming, the paper presents an efficient computer algorithm which solves an Integer Programming Model for optimally allocating Final Year Projects to more than 200 fourth year BSc students in Department o...

The inevitable proliferation of expert systems underscores the need for robust, friendly interfaces requiring minimal user training. The objective of the XCALIBUR project is to meet this need by providing natural comprehension and generation in the context of a focused mixed-initiative dialog. The XCALIBUR architecture is discussed, including its three central components (parser, generator and ...

OBJECTIVE: To develop the Video EEG Expert System (VES), a program to analyze patient data with the goal of finding anatomic seizure focus in the context of epilepsy pre-surgical evaluation. BACKGROUND: Numerous systems have been created to analyze electroencephalogram (EEG) data with the goal of searching for epileptiform discharges. Literature review does not reveal software dedicated to eval...

Employment or Leadership: Mathieu Pelpel, Innogenetics. Consultant or Advisory Role: A. PerretLiaudet, Alzheimer’s Biomarkers Standardization Initiative (ABSI) consortium (Innogenetics); H. Vanderstichele, Biomarkable. Stock Ownership: None declared. Honoraria: None declared. Research Funding: Région Wallonne and W2002134 and 14531 iPCRq contracts to the members of the “Human HistologyCRPP, Uni...

1. Not planning at all By far the most common planning problem is simply not planning at all, and this sin is easily avoided. A person need not be an expert planner to plan effectively. I’ve seen numerous instances of projects planned by rank amateurs that have run well simply because the people in charge had carefully considered their project’s specific needs. Forced to choose between an exper...