[PragmaticWeb] International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications (IJCSSA)

[Polovina, Simon]

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The contents of the latest issue of:

International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications (IJCSSA)

Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Volume 1, Issue 1, January - June 2013

Published: Semi-Annually in Print and Electronically

ISSN: 2166-7292 EISSN: 2166-7306

Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

http://www.igi-global.com/ijcssa



Editor(s)-in-Chief: Simon Polovina (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) and Simon Andrews (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)





PAPER ONE



Eliciting People's Conceptual Models of Activities and Systems



Ann Blandford (UCLIC, University College London, London, UK)



People using computer systems are required to work with the concepts implemented by system developers. If there is a poor fit between system concepts and users' pre-existing conceptualisation of domain and task, this places a high workload on the user as they translate between their own conceptualisation and that imposed by the system. The focus of this paper is on how to identify users' conceptualisations of a domain - ideally, prior to system implementation. For this, it is necessary to gather verbal data from people that allows them to articulate their conceptual models in ways that are not overly constrained by existing devices but allows them to articulate taken-for-granted knowledge. Possible study types include semi-structured interviews, contextual inquiry interviews and think-aloud protocols. The authors discuss how to design a study, covering choosing between different kinds of study, detailed planning of questions and tasks, data gathering, and preliminary data analysis.


PAPER TWO

Towards Scalingless Generation of Formal Contexts from an Ontology in a Triple Store



Frithjof Dau (SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany)



The EU-funded research project CUBIST investigates how Formal Concept Analysis can be applied as a Visual Analytics tool on top of information stored in a Triple Store (TS). This paper provides first steps for utilizing SPARQL in order to generate formal contexts out of the data in the TS, where the emphasis is put on using object-properties between individuals. Thus it complements FcaBedrock, which will be used in CUBIST as well and focuses on the scaling of datatype-properties between individuals and literals. It is discussed how the approaches of this paper and FcaBedrock can be combined.



PAPER THREE

>From Existential Graphs to Conceptual Graphs



John F. Sowa (VivoMind Research, LLC, Rockville, MD, USA)



Existential graphs (EGs) are a simple, readable, and expressive graphic notation for logic. Conceptual graphs (CGs) combine a logical foundation based on EGs with features of the semantic networks used in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. CG design principles address logical, linguistic, and cognitive requirements: a formal semantics defined by the ISO standard for Common Logic; the flexibility to support the expressiveness, context dependencies, and metalevel commentary of natural language; and cognitively realistic operations for reasoning by induction, deduction, abduction, and analogy. To accommodate the vagueness and ambiguities of natural language, informal heuristics can supplement the formal semantics. With sufficient background knowledge and a clarifying dialog, informal graphs can be refined to any degree of precision. Peirce claimed that the rules for reasoning with EGs generate "a moving picture of the action of the mind in thought." Some philosophers and psychologists agree: Peirce's diagrams and rules are a good candidate for a natural logic that reflects the neural processes that support thought and language. They are psychologically realistic and computationally efficient.



PAPER FOUR



Advances in FCA-based Applications for Social Networks Analysis



Marie-Aude Aufaure (Ecole Centrale Paris, Paris, France) and Bénédicte Le Grand (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France)



Concept lattices have been widely used for various purposes in many different applications since the 1980s. Recent applications of Formal Concept Analysis include extensions of traditional FCA applications such as data and text mining, machine learning and knowledge management. Progress has also recently been made in software engineering, Semantic Web and databases. New applications have also emerged in the fields of healthcare, ecology, biology, agronomy, business and social networks. This article presents example of successful applications of FCA for Social Networks Analysis. We show the benefit of FCA solutions, as well as their combination with semantics and topology-based approaches. We conclude by presenting FCA-based visualization solutions and open challenges for FCA in the context of large and dynamic data.



PAPER FIVE



CGs to FCA Including Peirce's Cuts



Simon Polovina (Conceptual Structures Research Group, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK) and Simon Andrews (Conceptual Structures Research Group, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK)


Previous work has demonstrated a straightforward mapping from Conceptual Graphs (CGs) to Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), and the combined benefits these types of Conceptual Structures bring in capturing and reasoning about the semantics in system design. As in that work, a CGs Transaction Model (or `Transaction Graph') exemplar is used, but in the form of a richer Financial Trading (FT) case study that has its business rules visualised in Peirce's cuts. The FT case study highlights that cuts can meaningfully be included in the CGs to FCA mapping. Accordingly, the case study's CGs Transaction Graph with its cuts is translated into a form suitable for the CGtoFCA algorithm described in that previous work. The process is tested through the CG-FCA software that implements the CGtoFCA algorithm. The algorithm describes how a Conceptual Graph (CG), represented by triples of the form source-concept, relation, target-concept can be transformed into a set of binary relations of the form target-concept, source-conceptnrelation thus creating a formal context in FCA. Cuts though can now be included in the same formal, rigorous, reproducible and general way. The mapping develops the Transaction Graph into a Transaction Concept, capturing and unifying the features of Conceptual Structures that CGs and FCA collectively embody.


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CALL FOR PAPERS



Mission:



The mission of the International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications (IJCSSA) is to harmonize the creativity of humans with the productivity of computers. CS recognizes that organizations work with concepts. The journal 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. The goal of the journal is to bring together the world's best minds in information technology, arts, humanities, and social science to explore novel ways that information technologies can be used to leverage tangible business and social benefits. The journal thus integrates the creativity of individuals and organizations with the productivity of computers for a meaningful digital future.



Coverage:



Topics should be drawn from, but not limited to, the following areas:



Conceptual Structures: Theory, Applications, and Practices

·         Conceptual graphs

·         Formal concept analysis

·         ISO common logic



Knowledge Architectures

·         Enterprise knowledge systems

·         Mobile, ubiquitous, or embedded systems

·         Metaphoric, cultural or semiotic considerations

·         Multi-agent systems

·         Ontologies and the their effective implementation

·         Post-syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic interoperability

·         Requirements engineering

·         Security and trust

·         Standards and recommendations

·         Transaction-oriented architectures

Smart Applications: Science, Technology and Systems

·         e-Science

·         e-Medicine

·         Forensic computing

·         Grid computing

·         Natural language systems

·         Robotics

·         Semantic web

·         Pragmatic web

·         Topic maps

·         Web 2.0



Smart Applications: Enterprise, Education, Society and Government

·         Augmenting collective intelligence

·         Business intelligence

·         Discovering misuse and fraud

·         e-Learning, smart VLEs (Virtual Learning Environments)

·         e-Social science

·         Folksonomies

·         Government accountability and e-democracy

·         Intellectual property management

·         Legal analysis

·         Healthcare management

·         Knowledge discovery

·         Knowledge management

·         Managing ambiguity, nonsense or contradictions

·         Teaching and learning of logic

·         Supporting social action



Interaction Design, Visualization, Creative Industries

·         Cultural, localization and internationalization

·         Entertainment

·         Linguistics

·         Peirce's extential graphs logic

·         Portal development

·         Semiotics, signs and meaning making

·         Supporting sensory disabilities, dyslexia or other differently abled

·         Supporting alternative (e.g., lateral) thinking

·         Thinking with diagrams

·         User modeling

·         User personalization

·         Visual analytics



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Editor-in-Chief:  Simon Polovina at s.polovina at shu.ac.uk<mailto:s.polovina at shu.ac.uk> and Simon Andrews at S.Andrews at shu.ac.uk<mailto:S.Andrews at shu.ac.uk>

Dr. Simon Polovina
Senior Lecturer in Business Computing, Department of Computing
Principal Investigator: www.cubist-project.eu
Conceptual Structures Research Group, Communication and Computing Research Centre
Sheffield Hallam University, Cantor Building, 153 Arundel St, Sheffield, UK S1 2NU
Tel: +44 (0)114 225 6825; Web: www.polovina.me.uk

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