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Ontology, Ontologies, and Science [PDF]

open access: yesTopoi, 2011
Philosophers frequently struggle with the relation of metaphysics to the everyday world, with its practical value, and with its relation to empirical science. This paper distinguishes several different models of the relation between philosophical ontology and applied (scientific) ontology that have been advanced in the history of philosophy.
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The Computational and Pragmatic Approach to the Dynamics of Science [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofia i Nauka, 2020
Science means here mathematics and those empirical disciplines which avail themselves of mathematical models. The pragmatic approach is conceived in Karl R. Popper’s The Logic of Scientific Discovery (p.
Witold Marciszewski
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An Ontology for Submarine Feature Representation on Charts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
A landform is a subjective individuation of a part of a terrain. Landform recognition is a difficult task because its definition usually relies on a qualitative and fuzzy description.
YAN, Jingya   +5 more
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Ontological Representation of Smart City Data: From Devices to Cities

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2018
Existing smart city ontologies allow representing different types of city-related data from cities. They have been developed according to different ontological commitments and hence do not share a minimum core model that would facilitate interoperability
Paola Espinoza-Arias   +3 more
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Managing Multiple Ontologies and Ontology Evolution in Ontologging [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Ontologging is an ontology-driven environment to enable next generation knowledge management applications building on Semantic Web technology. In this paper we first present the conceptual architecture underlying Ontologging. Second, we focus on two important challenges for ontology-based knowledge management, namely the supporting multiple ontologies ...
Maedche, Alexander   +4 more
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The Ontology for Conceptual Characterization of Ontologies

open access: yes, 2023
Ontologies as computational artifacts have been seen as a solution to FAIRness due to their characteristics, applications, and semantic competencies. Conceptualizations of complex and vast domains can be fragmented in different ways and can compose what is known as ontology networks.
Beatriz Franco Martins   +4 more
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Decentralized Personal Data Marketplaces: How Participation in a DAO Can Support the Production of Citizen-Generated Data

open access: yesSensors, 2022
Big Tech companies operating in a data-driven economy offer services that rely on their users’ personal data and usually store this personal information in “data silos” that prevent transparency about their use and opportunities for data sharing for ...
Mirko Zichichi   +2 more
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Ontology Winnowing: A Case Study on the AKT Reference Ontology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Many ontologies are built for the main purpose of representing a domain, rather than to meet the requirements of a specific application. When applications and services are deployed over an ontology, it is sometimes the case that only few parts of the ...
Harris, Steven   +2 more
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Catholic Eschatological Imagination and the Mystics of Fire: Possible Perspectives for a Muslim–Christian Dialogue

open access: yesReligions, 2022
During the twentieth century, Catholic theology moved to reject the misuse of imaginaries of the afterlife. By insisting on a de-cosmologization of the “last things”, theologians endorsed a Christocentric eschatology.
Piotr Zygulski
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Discovering Hidden Mental States in Open Multi-Agent Systems by Leveraging Multi-Protocol Regularities with Machine Learning

open access: yesSensors, 2020
The agent paradigm and multi-agent systems are a perfect match for the design of smart cities because of some of their essential features such as decentralization, openness, and heterogeneity.
Emilio Serrano, Javier Bajo
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