This paper presents a Protégé plug-in which enables end-users to design and instantiate an OWL knowledge base from multiple existing relational databases. This approach is inspired by data integration and exchange solutions and presents some functionalities which facilitate the development and maintenance of Semantic Web applications from frequently updated and domain-concerned databases.

We propose a concrete procedure of a Σ-protocol proving knowledge that a set of witnesses satisfies a monotone predicate in the witness-indistinguishable manner. Inspired by the high-level work proposed by Cramer, Damg̊ard and Schoenmakers at CRYPTO ’94, we provide a concrete procedure by extending the so-called OR-proof.

In this paper we propose a new deliberation process based on argumentation and bipolar decision making in a context of agreed common knowledge and priorities together with private preferences. This work is inspired from the supply chain management domain and more precisely by the “Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment” model which aims at selecting a procurement plan in collabor...

This paper describes the rationale followed for the integration of Dual-PECCS, a cognitively-inspired knowledge representation and reasoning system, into two rather different cognitive architectures, such as ACT-R and CLARION. The provided integration shows how the representational and reasoning mechanisms implemented by our framework may be plausibly applied to computational models of cognitio...

Recently biologically inspired, converged and hybrid information technologies have become of significant interest due to their capabilities in handling many real world complex problems, involving imprecision, uncertainty and vagueness and highdimensionality. This special issue is committed to capture the state-of-the-art and recent advances on various aspects of biologically inspired computing ...

The field of Grammatical Inference was originally motivated by the problem of natural language acquisition. However, the formal models proposed within this field have left aside this linguistic motivation. In this paper, we propose to improve models and techniques used in Grammatical Inference by using ideas coming from linguistic studies. In that way, we try to give a new bio-inspiration to th...

1 MEG Unit, Brain Imaging Center, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2 School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia 3 CSIRO Digital Productivity Flagship, Marsfield, NSW, Australia 4 Department of Non-linear Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany 5 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Göttinge...

Bach et al. (2014) proposed a novel model of action understanding, the affordancematching hypothesis, to explain how people both interpret and predict actions of others. This model is based on two types of information. The first is function knowledge and is supposed to inform people about the goals that can be achieved with tools. The second is manipulation knowledge and is thought to provide i...

The increased reliance on Knowledge Management systems has made certain theorists to suggest that this will enable a surpassing of proximal knowledge creation, unequivocally leading up to more effective knowledge creation by easy codification and sharing of knowledge. However, in general, too much focus has been put on the potential of KM systems rather than its limits and the role of supportin...