Conceptual structures : fulfilling Peirce's dream : Fifth International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS '97, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 3-8, 1997 : proceedings

This Book Constitutes The Refereed Proceedings Of The Fifth International Conference On Conceptual Structures, Iccs '97, Held In Seattle, Washington, Usa, In August 1997. The 39 Full Papers Presented Were Carefully Selected And Revised For Inclusion In The Volume. Also Included Are 9 Abstracts Of Conceptual Graphs Tools. The Papers Are Organized In Sections On Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Modeling, Formal Concept Analysis, Formal Reasoning, Applications Of Conceptual Graphs, And Conceptual Graphs Tools. This Book Competently Documents The Progress Achieved In The Area Since The Predecessor Conference Iccs '96, The Proceedings Of Which Have Been Published As Lnai 1115. Edited By Dickson Lukose, Harry Delugach, Mary Keeler, Leroy Searle, John Sowa. Fulfilling Peirce's dream: Conceptual structures and communities of inquiry....Pages 1-11 Peirce's graphs....Pages 12-24 A pragmatic understanding of “knowing that” and “knowing how”: The pivotal role of conceptual structures....Pages 25-40 Peircean foundations for a theory of context....Pages 41-64 The CORALI project: From conceptual graphs to conceptual graphs via labelled graphs....Pages 65-79 Contexts: A formal definition of worlds of assertions....Pages 80-94 Positive nested conceptual graphs....Pages 95-109 A different perspective on canonicity....Pages 110-124 Aggregations in conceptual graphs....Pages 125-137 The representation of semantic constraints in conceptual graph systems....Pages 138-152 Representation of defaults and exceptions in conceptual graphs formalism....Pages 153-167 Introduction of viewpoints in conceptual graph formalism....Pages 168-182 Task-dependent aspects of knowledge acquisition: A case study in a technical domain....Pages 183-197 Uncovering the conceptual models in ripple down rules....Pages 198-212 Knowledge modeling using annotated flow chart....Pages 213-227 Complex modelling constructs in MODEL-ECS....Pages 228-243 Modeling cause and effect in legal text....Pages 244-259 Information systems modeling with CGs logic....Pages 260-274 Modelling and simulating human behaviours with conceptual graphs....Pages 275-289 Conceptual graphs and formal concept analysis....Pages 290-303 How triadic diagrams represent conceptual structures....Pages 304-317 Concept exploration — A tool for creating and exploring conceptual hierarchies....Pages 318-331 Logical scaling in formal concept analysis....Pages 332-341 Organization of knowledge using order factors....Pages 342-356 C. S. Peirce and the quest for gamma graphs....Pages 357-370 A sound and complete CG proof procedure combining projections with analytic tableaux....Pages 371-385 Fuzzy unification and resolution proof procedure for fuzzy conceptual graph programs....Pages 386-400 Reasoning with type definitions....Pages 401-415 Universal marker and functional relation: Semantics and operations....Pages 416-430 Animating conceptual graphs....Pages 431-445 Accounting for domain knowledge in the construction of a generalization space....Pages 446-459 Rational and affective linking across conceptual cases — without rules....Pages 460-473 Conceptual graphs for corporate knowledge repositories....Pages 474-488 An experiment in document retrieval using conceptual graphs....Pages 489-504 PORT: A testbed paradigm for knowledge processing in the humanities....Pages 505-520 Using access paths to guide inference with conceptual graphs....Pages 521-535 Applying conceptual graph theory to the user-driven specification of network information systems....Pages 536-550 Generic trading service in telecommunication platforms....Pages 551-565 Assessing sowa's conceptual graphs for effective strategic management decisions, based on a comparative study with eden's cognitive mapping....Pages 566-580 CGKAT: A knowledge acquisition and retrieval tool using structured documents and ontologies....Pages 581-584 The WebKB set of tools: A common scheme for shared WWW annotations, shared knowledge bases and information retrieval....Pages 585-588 Deakin toolset: Conceptual graphs based knowledge acquisition, management, and processing tools....Pages 589-593 EGP: Extendible graph processor....Pages 594-597 CGKEE: Conceptual graph knowledge engineering environment....Pages 598-602 Menu-based interfaces to conceptual graphs: The CGLex approach....Pages 603-606 Knowledge extractor: A tool for extracting knowledge from text....Pages 607-610 The CG mars lander....Pages 611-616 PCCG: An operational tracked grid for creating conceptual graphs....Pages 617-620