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Free Download Conceptual Structures: Inspiration and Application: 14th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2006, Aalborg, Denmark, July 16-21, 2006. Proceedings By Nicola Guarino (auth.), Henrik Schärfe, Pascal Hitzler, Peter Øhrstrøm (eds.)
2006 | 460 Pages | ISBN: 3540358935 | PDF | 6 MB
th The 14 International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2006) was held in Aalborg, Denmark during July 16 – 21, 2006. Responding to the Call for Papers, we received 62 papers from 20 different countries, representing six different continents. This clearly indicates the international nature of the ICCS community as well as the widespread interest which was spawned by the previous conferences. By a thorough review process, 24 papers were selected to be included in this volume. In addition, six invited speakers made contributions which can be found in the first section of this volume. The theme of ICCS 2006–Conceptual Structures: Inspiration and Application– points to a dual focus of interest that is also reflected in the constellation of papers. From the beginning of the planning of this conference, we focused on inspirational sources that have led to the current state of research in our community, by tracing important historical influences which daily effect work in representing knowledge and in handling representations of conceptual structures. At the same time, we also focused on ways in which these legacies are employed to further advance theory and practice in the field of knowledge representation and processing. With this volume, we believe that a valuable contribution to both aspects of this field is being made. We wish to express our appreciation to all the authors of submitted papers, to the members of the Editorial Board and the Program Committee for all their work and valuable comments.

Free Download Advances in Conceptual Modeling – Theory and Practice: ER 2006 Workshops BP-UML, CoMoGIS, COSS, ECDM, OIS, QoIS, SemWAT, Tucson, AZ, USA, November 6-9, 2006. Proceedings By Dirk Draheim, Gerald Weber (auth.), John F. Roddick, V. Richard Benjamins, Samira Si-said Cherfi, Roger Chiang, Christophe Claramunt, Ramez A. Elmasri, Fabio Grandi, Hyoil Han, Martin Hepp, Miltiadis D. Lytras, Vojislav B. Mišić, Geert Poels, Il-Yeol
2006 | 460 Pages | ISBN: 3540477039 | PDF | 7 MB
This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of seven international workshops held in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2006, in Tucson, AZ, USA in November 2006.The 39 revised full papers presented together with the outlines of three tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. Topics addressed by the workshops are best practices of UML (BP-UML 2006), conceptual modeling for geographic information systems (CoMoGIS 2006), conceptual modeling of service-oriented software systems (CoSS 2006), evolution and change in data management (ECDM 2006), ontologizing industrial standards (OIS 2006), quality of information systems (QoIS 2006), and semantic Web applications: theory and practice (SemWAT 2006).

Free Download Conceptual Modeling for Traditional and Spatio-Temporal Applications: The MADS Approach By Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra, Esteban Zimányi (auth.)
2006 | 466 Pages | ISBN: 3540301534 | PDF | 3 MB
From environmental management to land planning and geo-marketing, the number of application domains that may greatly benefit from using data enriched with spatio-temporal features is expanding very rapidly. Unfortunately, development of new spatio-temporal applications is hampered by the lack of conceptual design methods suited to cope with the additional complexity of spatio-temporal data. This complexity is obviously due to the particular semantics of space and time, but also to the need for multiple representations of the same reality to address the diversity of requirements from highly heterogeneous user communities. Conceptual design methods are also needed to facilitate the exchange and reuse of existing data sets, a must in geographical data management due to the high collection costs of the data. Yet, current practice in areas like geographical information systems or moving objects databases does not include conceptual design methods very well, if at all.This book shows that a conceptual design approach for spatio-temporal databases is both feasible and easy to apprehend. While providing a firm basis through extensive discussion of traditional data modeling concepts, the major focus of the book is on modeling spatial and temporal information. Parent, Spaccapietra and Zimányi provide a detailed and comprehensive description of an approach that fills the gap between application conceptual requirements and system capabilities, covering both data modeling and data manipulation features. The ideas presented summarize several years of research on the characteristics and description of space, time, and perception. In addition to the authors’ own data modeling approach, MADS (Modeling of Application Data with Spatio-temporal features), the book also surveys alternative data models and approaches (from industry and academia) that target support of spatio-temporal modeling.The reader will acquire intimate knowledge of both the traditional and innovative features that form a consistent data modeling approach. Visual notations and examples are employed extensively to illustrate the use of the various constructs. Therefore, this book is of major importance and interest to advanced professionals, researchers, and graduate or post-graduate students in the areas of spatio-temporal databases and geographical information systems. "For anyone thinking of doing research in this field, or who is developing a system based on spatio-temporal data, this text is essential reading." (Mike Worboys, U Maine, Orono, ME, USA)"The high-level semantic model presented and validated in this book provides essential guidance to researchers and implementers when improving the capabilities of data systems to serve the actual needs of applications and their users in the temporal and spatial domains that are so prevalent today." (Gio Wiederhold, Stanford U, CA, USA)

Free Download Active Conceptual Modeling of Learning: Next Generation Learning-Base System Development By Peter P. Chen, Leah Y. Wong (auth.), Peter P. Chen, Leah Y. Wong (eds.)
2007 | 227 Pages | ISBN: 3540775021 | PDF | 4 MB
This volume contains a collection of the papers presented during the First International ACM-L Workshop, which was held in Tucson, Arizona, during the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2006.Included in this state-of-the-art survey are 11 revised full papers, carefully reviewed and selected from the workshop presentations. These are topped off with 4 invited lectures and an introductory and motivational overview.Taken as a whole, these papers cover virtually all of the current thinking in conceptual modeling research.The workshop in question focused on enhancing the fundamental understanding of how to model continual learning from past experiences and how to capture knowledge from transitions between system states.Active conceptual modeling is a continual process of describing all aspects of a domain, its activities, and changes from different perspectives based on our knowledge and understanding.

Free Download Persuasive Recommender Systems: Conceptual Background and Implications By Kyung-Hyan Yoo, Ulrike Gretzel, Markus Zanker (auth.)
2013 | 59 Pages | ISBN: 1461447011 | PDF | 1 MB
Whether users are likely to accept the recommendations provided by a recommender system is of utmost importance to system designers and the marketers who implement them. By conceptualizing the advice seeking and giving relationship as a fundamentally social process, important avenues for understanding the persuasiveness of recommender systems open up. Specifically, research regarding influential factors in advice seeking relationships, which is abundant in the context of human-human relationships, can provide an important framework for identifying potential influence factors in recommender system context. This book reviews the existing literature on the factors in advice seeking relationships in the context of human-human, human-computer, and human-recommender system interactions. It concludes that many social cues that have been identified as influential in other contexts have yet to be implemented and tested with respect to recommender systems. Implications for recommender system research and design are discussed.

Free Download Conceptual Structures for STEM Research and Education: 20th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2013, Mumbai, India, January 10-12, 2013. Proceedings By Su White (auth.), Heather D. Pfeiffer, Dmitry I. Ignatov, Jonas Poelmans, Nagarjuna Gadiraju (eds.)
2013 | 333 Pages | ISBN: 3642357857 | PDF | 13 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2013, held in Mumbai, India, in January 2013. The 22 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions for inclusion in the book. The volume also contains 3 invited talks. ICCS focuses on the useful representation and analysis of conceptual knowledge with research and business applications. It advances the theory and practice in connecting the user’s conceptual approach to problem solving with the formal structures that computer applications need to bring their productivity to bear. Conceptual structures (CS) represent a family of approaches that builds on the successes of artificial intelligence, business intelligence, computational linguistics, conceptual modeling, information and Web technologies, user modeling, and knowledge management.

Free Download Structure and Dynamics of Atoms and Molecules: Conceptual Trends By R. Lefebvre (auth.), J. L. Calais, E. S. Kryachko (eds.)
1995 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 9401041164 | PDF | 18 MB
The rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full Ecclesiastes What is quantum chemistry? The straightforward answer is that it is what quan tum chemists do. But it must be admitted, that in contrast to physicists and chemists, "quantum chemists" seem to be a rather ill-defined category of scientists. Quantum chemists are more or less physicists (basically theoreticians), more or less chemists, and by and large, computationists. But first and foremost, we, quantum chemists, are conscious beings. We may safely guess that quantum chemistry was one of the first areas in the natural sciences to lie on the boundaries of many disciplines. We may certainly claim that quantum chemists were the first to use computers for really large scale calculations. The scope of the problems which quantum chemistry wishes to answer and which, by its unique nature, only quantum chemistry can answer is growing daily. Retrospectively we may guess that many of those problems meet a daily need, or are say, technical in some sense. The rest are fundamental or conceptual. The daily life of most quantum chemists is usually filled with grasping the more or less technical problems. But it is at least as important to devote some time to the other kind of problems whose solution will open up new perspectives for both quantum chemistry itself and for the natural sciences in general.

Free Download Anupama Roy, "Gendered Citizenship: Historical and Conceptual Explorations"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 8125052844, 8125027971 | EPUB | pages: 296 | 0.8 mb
historically, citizenship was constituted through a series of exclusion whereby large sections of people, (colonised societies, slaves, women and workers) were considered inadequate for it. Citizenship is therefore made up of multiple margins, but it also releases powerful new imaginaries and practices of citizenship.This revised edition of gendered citizenship;/em> (first published in 2005) examines the gendering of citizenship. In the context of resistance against the colonial rule, the language of citizenship that emerged in late colonial India was based on a gendered notion of the community National and political. pulling in arguments on how the Indian Constitution transformed the idea of citizenship, it teases out the plural sites of citizenship which existed at this moment, and traces the forms in which idioms of citizenship endure in contemporary times. It explores in particular the landscapes of new citizenship which have emerged in the form of flexible citizenship with graded entitlements, as distinguished from spaces of stable citizenship. It proposes that a concerted effort towards an interactive public space can congeal into shared bonds of citizenship.This book will be valuable for advanced students, researchers and scholars of political science, History, sociology and gender studies. It would also be helpful to those studying social exclusion and the general reader interested in debates over gender and citizenship.. historically, citizenship was constituted through a series of exclusion whereby large sections of people, (colonised societies, slaves, women and workers) were considered inadequate for it. Citizenship is therefore made up of multiple margins, but it also releases powerful new imaginaries and practices of citizenship.This revised edition of gendered citizenship;/em> (first published in 2005) examines the gendering of citizenship. In the context of resistance against the colonial rule, the language of citizenship that emerged in late colonial India was based on a gendered notion of the community National and political. pulling in arguments on how the Indian Constitution transformed the idea of citizenship, it teases out the plural sites of citizenship which existed at this moment, and traces the forms in which idioms of citizenship endure in contemporary times. It explores in particular the landscapes of new citizenship which have emerged in the form of flexible citizenship with graded entitlements, as distinguished from spaces of stable citizenship. It proposes that a concerted effort towards an interactive public space can congeal into shared bonds of citizenship.This book will be valuable for advanced students, researchers and scholars of political science, History, sociology and gender studies. It would also be helpful to those studying social exclusion and the general reader interested in debates over gender and citizenship..

Free Download R. Trim, "Metaphor and the Historical Evolution of Conceptual Mapping"
English | ISBN: 0230304826 | 2011 | 245 pages | EPUB | 976 KB
An investigation of the historical evolution of figurative language within the framework of cognitive linguistics. It examines how and why metaphors evolve through the ages; discusses the role of culture; patterns of metaphor evolution; how many people use particular expressions.