This book provides research communities in Europe and Japan with an overview of scientific results and experiences achieved using innovative methods and approaches in computer science and other disciplines, which have a common interest in understanding and solving problems on information modeling and knowledge bases, as well as applying the results of research to practice. The topics of research covered in this book mainly concentrate on a variety of themes in the domain of theory and practice of information modeling, conceptual modeling, design and specification of information systems, software engineering, databases and knowledge bases. We also aim to recognize and study new areas of modeling and knowledge bases to which more attention should be paid. Therefore philosophy and logic, cognitive science, knowledge management, linguistics and management science are relevant areas, too.
Author(s): Yasushi Kiyoki, Yasushi Kiyoki, Eiji Kawaguchi, Hannu Jaakkola, Hannu Kangassalo
Series: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Publisher: IOS Press
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 344
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 6
Committees......Page 8
Additional Reviewers......Page 9
VOLYNE: Viewpoint Oriented Requirement Engineering for Lyee Methodology......Page 12
Component-based Interaction Design......Page 30
A Query-Meaning Recognition Method with a Learning Mechanism for Document Information Retrieval......Page 48
A Framework for a Simple Sentence Paraphrase Using Concept Hierarchy in SD-Form Semantics Model......Page 66
An Algebraic Approach for Specifying Compound Terms in Faceted Taxonomies......Page 78
A New Normal Form for Conceptual Databases......Page 99
An Ontological Approach to Unified Contract Management......Page 117
Towards Implicit Invocation of Web Services Functions......Page 122
Treecube: 3D Visualization Tool for Hierarchical Information......Page 126
Methodological Tools for Describing Children's Knowledge Construction Process in Multimedia Environment......Page 130
Coherent Enterprise Information Modelling in Practice......Page 134
Modelling a Process Repository for Enterprise Application Integration Based on Business Knowledge and Semantics......Page 141
A Meta-Level Active Multidatabase System Architecture for Heterogeneous Information Resources......Page 154
A Computational Method of Spatial and Temporal Equivalence with Context Recognition Functions for Document Databases......Page 172
Document Similarities in Web Based Collaborative Environments......Page 189
A Prototype of Semantic Retrieval for Video Data Using SD-Form......Page 196
Concepts, Language and Ontologies (from a Logical Point of View)......Page 204
A Dialogue Manager for Accessing Databases......Page 221
A Theory of Signs for Database Semantics......Page 231
3D Model Database System by Hand Sketch Query and its Intuitive Interface......Page 251
On Modeling Conceptual and Narrative Structure of Fairytales......Page 259
Web Application Wrapping by Demonstration......Page 277
Database Visualization Framework Based on Relational Data Model......Page 293
Contextual Search in Large Collections of Information Resources......Page 306
Finding Similar Stories by Using Sequences of Occurence Vectors......Page 314
Experiences in Computer Assisted XML-based Modelling......Page 318
Product Specifications Summarization and Product Ranking System Using User's Requests......Page 326
Author Index......Page 344
