Thus, ontologies represent a consensual, shared description of the pertinent objects considered as existing in a certain domain of knowledge (the domain of discourse). They constitute a special kind of software artefact conveying a certain view of the world (conceptualization), specifically designed with the purpose of explicitly expressing the intended meaning of a set of agreed existing objects.

The incorporation of engineering practices and core ideas into the Next Generation Science Standards at the elementary school level provides exciting opportunities but also raises important questions about the preparation of new elementary teachers. Both the teacher education and engineering education communities have a limited literature base on the resources that novice elementary teachers br...

This paper describes a new efficient speech act type tagging system. This system covers the tasks of (1) segmenting a turn into the optimal number of speech act units (SA units), and (2) assigning a speech act type tag (SA tag) to each SA unit. Our method is based on a theoretically clear statistical model that integrates linguistic, acoustic and situational information. We report tagging exper...

First-year students in higher education settings tend to face ongoing challenges with variations discursive practices and genres within their discipline. Within this context, a Diagnostic English Language Needs Assessment (DELNA) was administered first-year engineering assess the strengths needs of ability navigate academic language. The purpose paper is report on our initiative support student...

Biogenetic engineering only very recently enabled human beings to construct Iifeforms that would be impossible except for scientific technology. The very newness of these techniques and the obvious ways in which the origin of "engineered" creatures derives from the activities of human agents allows us to think about questions derived from the discourse of environmental ethics in a new way, for ...

In the performance of activities in an organization, communication plays a dominant role in that it allows people to coordinate their activities. They organize their activities by having conversations intending to initiate actions and report on them. The modeling of business communication is a central part in the communication-centered organizational modeling approach called dynamic essential m...

In this paper, we investigate the reliability analysis of a powerloom plant by using interval valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IVIFS). Herein, we modeled a powerloom plant as a gracefully degradable system having two units A(n) and B(m) connected in series. The reliability of n components of unit A and m components of unit B is assumed to be an IVIFS defined over the universe of discourse [0, ...

In the frame of using models to promote dialogue among stakeholders, we are interested in modelling representations as a mean to share viewpoints and opinions. A first trend for modelling representations uses sociocognitive theories as frameworks for modelling. This article proposes a different approach combining Knowledge Engineering elicitation techniques and Agent Based Modelling. The use of...