Introduction Methodological Considerations in the Design of Community Information Systems Ontological Assumptions Axiological Assumptions Participatory Design and the Negotiation of Community Values The Connected Kids Database Design Process and Outcomes Participatory-Design Protocol Building a Shared Purpose Negotiating Users' Needs Negotiating System Specifications Conclusion References Ackno...

In the present paper we make some contributions to the emerging eld of so-called ontological engineering. In detail, we discuss the principles underlying knowledge acquisition from an axiomaticdeductive point of view. Then we turn to the notion of an ontology and the connection between ontology and knowledge systems. An ontology comprises ontologically basic relations such as membership, part-w...

Ontologies and Description Logics (DLs). Why putting them in a single chapter for this document devoted to AI research in Italy? Well, a good reason is that both research areas originated from a single, classic mainstream in AI: logic-based knowledge representation (KR). Indeed, starting from the late 80s, Italian researchers brought a radical contribution to the formal understanding of so-call...

feminist critical discourse analysis is an approach distinguished by its focus on revealing unequal power relations between women and men in their social life. in the present paper, it is suggested that simone de beauvoir’s theory of the formation of gender identity and female subject in the second sex provides a meaningful theoretical ground to the feminist critical discourse analysis. althoug...

We propose a methodology for reorganization and representation of factual knowledge. In this methodology, we extract a set of relations that is essential to build knowledge from information primitives. The representation called ontological network may contain diierent models of the world. Each model is built from simpler building blocks at various levels of aggregations and abstractions, where ...

Service management involves building new services by combining and recombining processes and routines. In this paper, we examine the ontological and epistemological perspectives that inform our understanding of the chunks of functionality that are being recombined. Based on a review of 367 influential articles, we identify two very different sets of assumptions about the nature of processes and...

Ontological databases extend traditional databases with ontological constraints. This technology is crucial for many applications such as semantic data publishing and integration as well as model-driven database design. For many classes of ontological constraints, query answering can be solved via query rewriting. In particular, given a conjunctive query and a set of ontological constraints, th...