see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may…reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

Population ageing is a phenomenon that is quite new and irreversible in the history of mankind. Every country and every organisation is concerned while it is not certain that all the risks and challenges have been clearly identified. Clearly, there is a risk of massive knowledge loss, i.e., “Knowledge Crash”, due to massive retirements, but not exclusively for this reason. This risk is not eval...

based on an immanent religious approach, the present article is an attempt to answer the following two questions: can freedom be studied from a quranic viewpoint? how can freedom be analyzed according to the quran within a specific theoretical framework? the study of the quranic verses asserts that the quran views mankind as being god's successor on earth and having a divine nature and a f...

Population ageing is a phenomenon that is quite new and irreversible in the history of mankind. Every country, every organisation (public, private, international etc.) is concerned. It is not certain that all the risks and challenges have been clearly identified. Clearly, there is a risk of massive knowledge loss (" Knowledge Crash "), (due, for instance, to massive retirements, but not exclusi...

Barsalou’s (1999, 2003) perceptual symbol systems hypothesis describes how semantic knowledge is grounded in sensorimotor experience. According to the theory, knowledge is acquired through sensorimotor simulations. This challenges the classical view supported by the disembodied cognition hypothesis, which generally favours an abstract and symbolic system. We propose a unified perspective, in wh...

In this paper, we introduce a new rough set approach, which is called the limited dominance-based rough set model into the incomplete decision system. The limited dominance relation is different from the traditional dominance relation in the incomplete environment because we are on the assumption that the unknown value can only be compared with the maximal or minimal value in the domain of the ...

The constantly growing body of scholarly knowledge of science, technology, and humanities is an asset of the mankind. While new discoveries expand the existing knowledge, they may simultaneously render some of it obsolete. It is crucial for scientists and other stakeholders to keep their knowledge up to date. Policy makers, decision makers, and the general public also need an efficient communic...

In this paper, we overview the recently introduced general framework of Description Logic Based Dynamic Systems, which leverages Levesque’s functional approach to model systems that evolve the extensional part of a description logic knowledge base by means of actions. This framework is parametric w.r.t. the adopted description logic and the progression mechanism. In this setting, we discuss ver...

The debate over symbolic versus sub-symbolic representations of human cognition has been continuing for thirty years, with little indication of a resolution. The argument is this: Does the human cognitive system use symbols as a representation of knowledge, and does it process symbols and their respective constituents? Or does the human cognitive system use a distributed representation of knowl...