The paper presents a general method of imposing constraints in formal concept analysis of tabular data with fuzzy attributes. The constraints represent a user-defined requirements which are supplied along with the input data table. The main effect is to filter-out conceptual clusters (outputs of the analysis) which are not compatible with the constraint, in a computationally efficient way. Our ...

A multiattribute utility approach is adopted to assess the value of an information system. Various economic analyses of the value of information are reviewed and the conceptual problems regarding the definition of this value and some measurement difficulties are discussed. A list of possible utility attributes is proposed for a reporting system value assessment, and for each attribute a measure...

Specifications The purpose of Abstract Specifications1 is to create and document a conceptual model sufficient enough to allow for the creation of Implementation Specifications. One OGC abstract specification, the Spatial Schema, gives a standard for geographic information by specifying geometry and topology separately as a UML (Unified Modeling Language)2 package dependency tree. The geometry ...

We introduce DLR, an extension of the n-ary propositionally closed description logic DLR to deal with attribute-labelled tuples (generalising the positional notation), projections of relations, and global and local objectification of relations, able to express inclusion, functional, key, and external uniqueness dependencies. The logic is equipped with both TBox and ABox axioms. We show how a si...

A concern for individual differences has been missing from the Great Rationality Debate in cognitive science—the debate about how much irrationality to attribute to human cognition. There are individual differences in rational thinking that are less than perfectly correlated with individual differences in intelligence because intelligence and rationality occupy different conceptual locations in...

We introduce DLR ,̀ an extension of the n-ary propositionally closed description logic DLR to deal with attribute-labelled tuples (generalising the positional notation), projections of relations, and global and local objectification of relations, able to express inclusion, functional, key, and external uniqueness dependencies. The logic is equipped with both TBox and ABox axioms. We show how a s...

The paper presents a framework to induction of concept hierarchies based on consistent integration of metric and similarity based approaches The hierarchies used are subsump tion lattices induced by the least general generalization operator lgg commonly used in inductive learning Using some basic results from lattice theory the paper introduces a semantic distance measure between objects in con...

We develop a decision support system, based on the data warehousing approach. We define a conceptual object-oriented data warehouse model, which describes the data warehouse as a central repository of relevant, complex and temporal data. Our model integrates three concepts: warehouse object, environment and warehouse class. Each warehouse object representing a source entity, is composed of one ...

The acquisition of Belief verbs lags behind the acquisition of Desire verbs in children. Some psycholinguistic theories attribute this lag to conceptual differences between the two classes, while others suggest that syntactic differences are responsible. Through computational experiments, we show that a probabilistic verb learning model exhibits the pattern of acquisition, even though there is ...

The medical writings of early medieval western Europe c. 700 – c. 1000 have often been derided for their disorganised appearance, poor Latin, nebulous conceptual framework, admixtures of magic and folklore, and general lack of those positive features that historians attribute to ancient or later medieval medicine. This paper attempts to rescue the period from its negative image. It examines a n...