Stack-Based Query Language (SBQL) is a model query and programming language for a wide family of object-oriented database models. SBQL is the result of investigations into a uniform theoretical and conceptual basis for object-oriented query languages integrated with programming capabilities and abstractions, including database abstractions: updatable views, stored procedures and transactions. S...

Developing new methods and solutions of personalized medicine can address many current sosio-economical challenges both locally and globally. The investments made to support health can help people to have an independent, productive and happy life. To motivate the development of new patient support tools we illustrate the need for better health literacy and patient engagement, some common framew...

This paper presents a model for conceptual design based on an explicit behavioral reasoning step to guide the design process. Rather than mapping directly from function to form, we treat conceptual design as a two-step process, first transforming functional requirements to a behavioral description and then matching physical artifacts to this behavior. We believe that behavior, in terms of physi...

In most natural language processing systems there is no representation of the semantic knowledge of lexical units, but just subcategorization frames, selection restrictions and links to other paradigmatically-related lexical units. Some NLP systems, e.g. machine translation or dialogue-based systems, attempt to “understand” the input text by translating it into some kind of formal language-inde...

The basic principle of the Semantic Web carried by the RDF data model is that many RDF statements coexist all together and are universally true. However, some case studies imply contextual relevancy and truth this is well known in the Conceptual Graph community and handled through the notion of contexts. In this paper, we present an approach and a tool for semantic annotation of textual data us...

Concepts are the building blocks of legal doctrine. All legal rules and standards, in fact, are formed by combining concepts in different ways. But despite their centrality, legal concepts are not well understood. There is no agreement as to what makes a legal concept useful or ineffective—worth keeping or in need of revision. Social scientists, however, have developed a set of criteria for suc...

This article provides a conceptual framework and an architecture for an effective knowledge organization (EKO) that emphasizes the important role of information processing in facilitating the creation of a dynamic knowledge capability, which is the essence of an EKO. The architecture links core knowledge management, intellectual property management, organizational learning, and innovation modul...

Auditory graph design and implementation often has been subject to criticisms of arbitrary or atheoretical decision-making processes in both research and application. Despite increasing interest in auditory displays coupled with more than two decades of auditory graph research, no theoretical models of how a listener processes an auditory graph have been proposed. The current paper seeks to pre...

Recent studies reveal that naming has powerful conceptual consequences within the first year of life. Naming distinct objects with the same word highlights commonalities among the objects and promotes object categorization. In the present experiment, we pursued the origin of this link by examining the influence of words and tones on object categorization in infants at 6 and 12 months. At both a...

We propose a new framework for development of modular computational methods to support processes of healthcare and health education in diverse settings. Motivated by an evaluation by The National Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland the proposed framework aims to address challenges of analyzing knowledge concerning healthcare services and patient records with computational linguistics. T...