Web knowledge management and decision support : 14th International Conference on Applications of Prolog, INAP 2001, Tokyo, Japan, October 20-22, 2001 : revised papers

"The 20 revised full papers presented in this book together with 4 section surveys were carefully reviewed and selected from the papers contributed to the 14th International Conference on Applications of Prolog, INAP 2001, held in Tokyo, Japan, in October 2002. The papers are devoted to the four tightly interwoven aspects knowledge acquisition, knowledge management, knowledge processing, and knowledge distribution, all in the context of the World Wide Web; they are organized in topical sections on Web languages and logic, knowlege acquisition and knowledge representation, decision support by advanced logic programming, and Web-knowledge management and data mining. The book is targeted to designers and users of e-business systems and e-government systems, for IT professionals who build such systems, as well as for the wider audience interested in the technical background of knowledge processing for the Web"--Publisher description Introduction to Part I: Web-Languages and Logic....Pages 3-4 The Rule Markup Language: RDF-XML Data Model, XML Schema Hierarchy, and XSL Transformations....Pages 5-22 Software Components for Internet Based Self-service Consulting Systems....Pages 23-35 iML : A Logic-Based Framework for Constructing Graphical User Interface on Mobile Agents....Pages 36-50 PGR: Portuguese Attorney General’s Office Decisions on the Web....Pages 51-64 Introduction to Part II: Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Representation....Pages 67-69 Preferring and Updating in Logic-Based Agents....Pages 70-85 Relational Information Retrieval through Natural Language Analysis....Pages 86-99 A Functional Operator-Based Morphological Analysis of Japanese....Pages 100-114 Towards Reconciling Use Cases via Controlled Language and Graphical Models....Pages 115-128 Selection Restrictions Acquisition for Parsing Improvement....Pages 129-143 Introduction to Part III: Decision Support by Advanced Logic Programming....Pages 147-150 Defeasible Logic....Pages 151-169 Connecting Databases with Argumentation....Pages 170-185 Prolog Issues and Experimental Results of an MCMC Algorithm....Pages 186-196 Action Rules for Programming Constraint Propagators and Interactive User Interfaces....Pages 197-204 Constraint Solving over OCR Graphs....Pages 205-216 Constraint-Based Configuration of Large Systems....Pages 217-232 Introduction to Part IV: Data Mining and Web-Knowledge Management....Pages 235-236 Collaborative Information Filtering by Using Categorized Bookmarks on the Web....Pages 237-250 Discovering Frequent Itemsets in the Presence of Highly Frequent Items....Pages 251-264 Mining Multi-dimensional Quantitative Associations....Pages 265-275 Constructing Appropriate Data Abstractions for Mining Classiffication Knowledge....Pages 276-289 Relationship-Based Dynamic Versioning of Evolving Legal Documents....Pages 290-305

The 20 revised full papers presented in this book together with 4 section surveys were carefully reviewed and selected from the papers contributed to the 14th International Conference on Applications of Prolog, INAP 2001, held in Tokyo, Japan, in October 2002.

The papers are devoted to the four tightly interwoven aspects knowledge acquisition, knowledge management, knowledge processing, and knowledge distribution, all in the context of the World Wide Web; they are organized in topical sections on Web languages and logic, knowlege acquisition and knowledge representation, decision support by advanced logic programming, and Web-knowledge management and data mining.

The book is targeted to designers and users of e-business systems and e-government systems, for IT professionals who build such systems, as well as for the wider audience interested in the technical background of knowledge processing for the Web.

The French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, in his opus Dialectique de la Durée, wrote: "Without reasoning, memory is incomplete and inefficient".