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Free Download Claudio Gnoli, "Introduction to Knowledge Organization"
English | ISBN: 1783304650 | 2020 | 104 pages | PDF | 615 KB
This book provides a complete introduction to the rapidly expanding field of Knowledge organization (KO), presenting historical precedents and theoretical foundations in a discursive, intelligible form, covering the philosophical, linguistic and technical aspects. In the contemporary context of global information exchange through linked data, Knowledge organization systems (KOS) need to be represented in standard inter-operable formats. Different formats for KOS representation including MARC, Dublin Core, SKOS and OWL are introduced as well as the application of Knowledge organization to a variety of activities and contexts: education, encyclopedic knowledge, the Internet, libraries, archives, museums, galleries and other institutions collecting and providing access to recorded knowledge. Key coverage includes:

Free Download Charles Oppenheim, "Information Law: Compliance for Librarians, Knowledge Managers and Information Professionals"
English | ISBN: 1783303670 | 2020 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Library staff, information managers, academics, learning technologists, researchers and other practitioners who collect, use, create, share or provide access to published and unpublished resources, such as content, data, databases, personal data and software, need to be aware of the legal and licensing issues that might arise from these activities. This fully up-to-date guide adopts a practical hands-on approach to this complex area, which is viewed from both an operational and strategic perspective.

Free Download Economic Knowledge in Crisis: Economists and the State in the Late Soviet Union
by Olessia Kirtchik
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031721411 | 327 Pages | True ePUB | 3.53 MB

Free Download Economic Knowledge in Crisis: Economists and the State in the Late Soviet Union
by Olessia Kirtchik
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031721411 | 327 Pages | True PDF | 8.23 MB

Free Download The Theory of the Knowledge Square: The Fuzzy Rational Foundations of the Knowledge-Production Systems By Kofi Kissi Dompere (auth.)
2013 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 3642311180 | PDF | 3 MB
The monograph is about a meta-theory of knowledge-production process and the logical pathway that connects the epistemic possibility to the epistemic reality. It examines the general conditions of paradigms for information processing and isolates the classical and fuzzy paradigms for comparative analysis. The sets of conditions that give rise to them are defined, stated and analyzed to abstract the corresponding sets of laws of thought. The fuzzy paradigm with its corresponding logic and mathematics is related to inexact symbolism for the defective information structure where the results of the knowledge production must satisfy the epistemic conditionality, composed of fuzzy conditionality and fuzzy-stochastic conditionality under the principle of logical duality with continuum. The classical paradigm with its corresponding logic and mathematics is related to exact symbolism for exact information structure where the vagueness component of the defectiveness is assumed away, and where the results of the knowledge production must satisfy no epistemic conditionality or at the maximum only the stochastic conditionality under the principle of logical dualism with excluded middle. It is argued that the epistemic path that links ontological space to the epistemological space is information. The ontological space is taken as the primary category of reality while the epistemological space is shone to be a derivative. Such information is universally defective and together with assumptions imposed guides the development of paradigms with their laws of thought, logic of reasoning, mathematics and computational techniques. The relational structure is seen in terms of logical trinity with a given example as matter-information-energy transformational trinity which is supported by the time trinity of past-present-future relationality. The book is written for professionals, researchers and students working in philosophy of science, decision-choice theories, economies, sciences, computer science, engineering, cognitive psychology and researchers working on, or interested in fuzzy paradigm, fuzzy logic, fuzzy decisions, and phenomena of vagueness and ambiguities, fuzzy mathematics, fuzzy-stochastic processes and theory of knowledge. It is further aimed at research institutions and libraries. The subject matter belongs to extensive research and development taking place on fuzzy phenomena and the debate between the fuzzy paradigm and the classical paradigm relative to informatics, synergetic science and complexity theory. The book will have a global appeal and across disciplines. Its strength, besides the contents, is the special effort that is undertaken to make it relevant and accessible to different areas of sciences and knowledge production.

Free Download Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management By Dominique Gay, Marc Boullé (auth.), Fabrice Guillet, Bruno Pinaud, Gilles Venturini, Djamel Abdelkader Zighed (eds.)
2013 | 222 Pages | ISBN: 3642358543 | PDF | 6 MB
The recent and novel research contributions collected in this book are extended andreworked versions of a selection of the best papers that were originally presented inFrench at the EGC’2011 Conference held in Brest, France, on January 2011.EGC stands for "Extraction et Gestion des connaissances" in French, and means "Knowledge Discovery and Management" or KDM.KDM is concerned with the works in computer science at the interface between data and knowledge; such as Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Business Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web. This book is intended to be read by all researchers interested in these fields, includingPhD or MSc students, and researchers from public or private laboratories. Itconcerns both theoretical and practical aspects of KDM.This book has been structured in two parts. The first part, entitled "Data Mining, classification and queries", deals with rule and pattern mining, with topological approachesand with OLAP.The second part of the book, entitled "Ontology and Semantic", is relatedto knowledge-based and user-centered approaches in KDM.

Free Download Onofrio Romano, "The Sociology of Knowledge in a Time of Crisis: Challenging the Phantom of Liberty "
English | ISBN: 0415720362 | 2014 | 220 pages | EPUB | 578 KB
The speed of social dynamics has overtaken the speed of thought. Adopting a dialectical perspective towards reality, social theory has always detected faults in the dominant social pattern, foreseeing crises and outlining in advance the features of new social models. Thought has always moved faster than reality and its ruling models, ensuring a dynamic equilibrium during modernity. Despite any dramatic social crisis, theory has always provided exit routes. The tragedy of current crisis lies in the fact that its social implications are exasperated by the absence of alternative views. This book identifies the causes of this mismatch between thought and reality, and illustrates a way out.

Free Download Tomas Heidar, "New Knowledge and Changing Circumstances in the Law of the Sea "
English | ISBN: 9004437746 | 2020 | 500 pages | PDF | 5 MB
New Knowledge and Changing Circumstances in the Law of the Sea focuses on the challenges posed to the existing legal framework, in particular the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and the various ways in which States are addressing these challenges.

Free Download Knowledge Graph Reasoning: A Neuro-Symbolic Perspective
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031720075 | 205 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 21 MB
This book provides a coherent and unifying view for logic and representation learning to contribute to knowledge graph (KG) reasoning and produce better computational tools for integrating both worlds. To this end, logic and deep neural network models are studied together as integrated models of computation. This book is written for readers who are interested in KG reasoning and the new perspective of neuro-symbolic integration and have prior knowledge to neural networks and deep learning. The authors first provide a preliminary introduction to logic and background knowledge closely related to the surveyed techniques such as the introduction of knowledge graph and ontological schema and the technical foundations of first-order logic learning. Reasoning techniques for knowledge graph completion are presented from three perspectives, including: representation learning-based, logical, and neuro-symbolic integration. The book then explores question answering on KGs with specific focus on multi-hop and complex-logic query answering before outlining work that addresses the rule learning problem. The final chapters highlight foundations on ontological schema and introduce its usage in KG before closing with open research questions and a discussion on the potential directions in the future of the field.

Free Download The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge: Consensus, Controversy, and Coproduction
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009507230 | 94 Pages | PDF (True) | 3.4 MB
This Element is about the social dimensions of scientific knowledge. The first section asks in what ways scientific knowledge is social. The second section develops a conception of scientific knowledge that accommodates the insights of the first section, and is consonant with mainstream thinking about knowledge in analytic epistemology. The third section asks under what conditions we can tell, in the real world, that a consensus in a scientific community amounts to shared scientific knowledge, as characterized in the second section, and how to deal with scientific dissent. The fourth section reviews the ways epistemic and social elements mutually interact to coproduce scientific knowledge. This Element engages with literature from philosophy of science and social epistemology, especially social epistemology of science, as well as Science, Technology, and Society (STS), and analytic epistemology. The Element focuses on themes and debates that date from the start of the second millennium.