Issues of Representation

On Knowledge Representation issues

Knowledge Representations issues take on special significance in the light of development of the novel Web’s reality that involves the Semantic Web, GRID, P2P and other today’s ITs. In contrast to the previous IT evolution’s stages, the recent one utilizes ontology as separated resource. An elaborate knowledge representation approach implies an efficiency of knowledge-based systems and their in...

Basic Issues in Spatial Representation

Spatial representation has in the last decade become a major focus of research in cognitive science and related areas. This includes philosophy as well as psychology, brain science, linguistics, those branches of computer science involved in the construction of machines capable of autonomous interaction with the environment. A fil rouge connects the efforts made by researchers from all of these...

Issues in Temporal Representation of Multimedia Documents

Fundamental Issues of Aesthetic Knowledge Representation

In this paper we deal with the problem of formalizing the notion of aesthetic judgment. Many aspects of the representation of beauty have been evaluated and studied in the Analytical Philosophy and in the Linguistic literature. However, to our knowledge, an approach that includes a complete formalization from a knowledge representation point of view has not yet been carried out. In this paper w...

Enterprise Representation: An Analysis of Standards Issues

The purpose of this paper is to describe the domain of standards with respect to achieving the best enterprise integration. There are some definitions about frameworks and architectures, discussions re the use of enterprise models and modeling, the key components and characteristics of these models, a description of the users of the models and their needs, enterprise-model drivers and their rel...