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Digital Fabrication and the Design Build Studio
This book explores the connection between digital fabrication and the design build studio in both academic and professional studios. The book presents 17 essays and cases studies from well-known scholars and practitioners, including Kengo Kuma, Joseph Choma, Dan Rockhill, Keith Zawistowski, and Marie Zawistowski, whose theoretical and practical work addresses design build at various levels. Four introductory essays trace the history of the design build movement, exploring the emergence of design build in the pedagogy of the Bauhaus, the integration of technology into architectural design, and the influence of the act of making on the design build studio. The rest of the book is divided into ...
Handbook on Ontologies
An ontology is a description (like a formal specification of a program) of concepts and relationships that can exist for an agent or a community of agents. The concept is important for the purpose of enabling knowledge sharing and reuse. The Handbook on Ontologies provides a comprehensive overview of the current status and future prospectives of the field of ontologies. The handbook demonstrates standards that have been created recently, it surveys methods that have been developed and it shows how to bring both into practice of ontology infrastructures and applications that are the best of their kind.
Formal Ontology in Information Systems
Researchers in areas such as artificial intelligence, formal and computational linguistics, biomedical informatics, conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering and information retrieval have come to realise that a solid foundation for their research calls for serious work in ontology, understood as a general theory of the types of entities and relations that make up their respective domains of inquiry. In all these areas, attention is now being focused on the content of information rather than on just the formats and languages used to represent information. The clearest example of this development is provided by the many initiatives growing up around the project of the Semantic Web. And, as t...
Introduction to Description Logic
The first introductory textbook on description logics, relevant to computer science, knowledge representation and the semantic web.
Semantic Web
What Is Semantic Web The World Wide Web Consortium is responsible for establishing the standards that will be used in the development of the Semantic Web, which is also referred to as Web 3.0 in certain circles (W3C). Making the data on the Internet understandable by machines is the objective of the Semantic Web. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Semantic Web Chapter 2: DARPA Agent Markup Language Chapter 3: Resource Description Framework Chapter 4: MPEG-7 Chapter 5: Web Ontology Language Chapter 6: RDF Schema Chapter 7: Semantic spectrum Chapter 8: SPARQL Chapter 9: FOAF (ontology) Chapter 10: Semantic wiki Chapter 11: RDFa Chapter 12:...
Semantic Modeling for Data
What value does semantic data modeling offer? As an information architect or data science professional, let’s say you have an abundance of the right data and the technology to extract business gold—but you still fail. The reason? Bad data semantics. In this practical and comprehensive field guide, author Panos Alexopoulos takes you on an eye-opening journey through semantic data modeling as applied in the real world. You’ll learn how to master this craft to increase the usability and value of your data and applications. You’ll also explore the pitfalls to avoid and dilemmas to overcome for building high-quality and valuable semantic representations of data. Understand the fundamental...
Decentralized Query Processing Over Heterogeneous Sources of Knowledge Graphs
Knowledge graphs are increasingly used in scientific and industrial applications. The large number and size of knowledge graphs published as Linked Data in autonomous sources has led to the development of various interfaces to query these knowledge graphs. Therefore, effective query processing approaches that enable efficient information retrieval from these knowledge graphs need to address the capabilities and limitations of different Linked Data Fragment interfaces. This book investigates novel approaches to addressing the challenges that arise in the presence of decentralized, heterogeneous sources of knowledge graphs. The effectiveness of these approaches is empirically evaluated and dem...
Empirical Ontology Design Patterns
In recent years, knowledge graphs (KGs) and ontologies have been widely adopted for modeling many kinds of domain. They are frequently released openly, something which benefits those who are starting new projects, because it offers them a wide choice of ontology reuse and the possibility to link to existing data. Understanding the content of an ontology or a knowledge graph is far from straightforward, however, and existing methods address this issue only partially, while exploring and comparing multiple ontologies can be a tedious manual task. This book, Empirical Ontology Design Patterns, starts from the premise that identifying the Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) used in an ontology or a ...
Platform Ontologies for the Model-Driven Architecture
Integrates a platform-driven decision framework with the model-driven architecture (MDA). This practical guide explains how to combine three technology areas - MDA, ontologies, and software product lines - in order to integrate several platform-specific software products into a single MDA
