Decision-making softwareDecision-making software (DM software) is software for computer applications that help individuals and organisations make choices and take decisions, typically by ranking, prioritizing or choosing from a number of options. An early example of DM software was described in 1973. Before the advent of the World Wide Web, most DM software was spreadsheet-based, with the first web-based DM software appearing in the mid-1990s. Nowadays, many DM software products (mostly web-based) are available – e.g.
Production system (computer science)A "production system " (or "production rule system") is a computer program typically used to provide some form of artificial intelligence, which consists primarily of a set of rules about behavior but it also includes the mechanism necessary to follow those rules as the system responds to states of the world. Those rules, termed productions, are a basic representation found useful in automated planning, expert systems and action selection. Productions consist of two parts: a sensory precondition (or "IF" statement) and an action (or "THEN").
Upper ontologyIn information science, an upper ontology (also known as a top-level ontology, upper model, or foundation ontology) is an ontology (in the sense used in information science) which consists of very general terms (such as "object", "property", "relation") that are common across all domains. An important function of an upper ontology is to support broad semantic interoperability among a large number of domain-specific ontologies by providing a common starting point for the formulation of definitions.
Graphe conceptuelUn graphe conceptuel est un formalisme de représentation de connaissances et de raisonnements. Ce formalisme a été introduit par en 1984. Depuis cette date, ce formalisme a été développé suivant trois directions principales : interface graphique de la logique du premier ordre, système diagrammatique pour la logique du premier ordre, formalisme de représentation de connaissances et de raisonnement basé sur les graphes. Dans cette approche les graphes conceptuels servent d'interface graphique pour la logique du premier ordre (calcul des prédicats).
Fifth Generation Computer SystemsThe Fifth Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) was a 10-year initiative begun in 1982 by Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) to create computers using massively parallel computing and logic programming. It aimed to create an "epoch-making computer" with supercomputer-like performance and to provide a platform for future developments in artificial intelligence. FGCS was ahead of its time, and its excessive ambitions led to commercial failure.
Conceptualization (information science)In information science a conceptualization is an abstract simplified view of some selected part of the world, containing the objects, concepts, and other entities that are presumed of interest for some particular purpose and the relationships between them. An explicit specification of a conceptualization is an ontology, and it may occur that a conceptualization can be realized by several distinct ontologies. An ontological commitment in describing ontological comparisons is taken to refer to that subset of elements of an ontology shared with all the others.
Alignement d'ontologiesOntology alignment, or ontology matching, is the process of determining correspondences between concepts in ontologies. A set of correspondences is also called an alignment. The phrase takes on a slightly different meaning, in computer science, cognitive science or philosophy. For computer scientists, concepts are expressed as labels for data. Historically, the need for ontology alignment arose out of the need to integrate heterogeneous databases, ones developed independently and thus each having their own data vocabulary.
Engagement ontologiqueUn engagement ontologique dans un langage est un ou plusieurs objets dont l'existence est postulée par ce langage. L'« existence » à laquelle il est fait référence n'a pas besoin d'être « réelle », il lui suffit d'exister dans un univers de discours . À titre d'exemple, les systèmes juridiques utilisent un vocabulaire faisant référence aux « personnes morales » qui sont des entités collectives ayant des droits. On dit alors que la doctrine juridique a un engagement ontologique envers les individus non singuliers.
Semantic interoperabilitySemantic interoperability is the ability of computer systems to exchange data with unambiguous, shared meaning. Semantic interoperability is a requirement to enable machine computable logic, inferencing, knowledge discovery, and data federation between information systems. Semantic interoperability is therefore concerned not just with the packaging of data (syntax), but the simultaneous transmission of the meaning with the data (semantics). This is accomplished by adding data about the data (metadata), linking each data element to a controlled, shared vocabulary.
CatégorisationLa catégorisation est une activité mentale qui consiste à placer un ensemble d'objets dans différentes catégories (classes, types, taxons) en fonction de leurs similarités ou de critères communs. Il s'agit d'une stratégie cognitive fondamentale dans la perception et la compréhension de concepts et d'objets, dans la prise de décision et dans l'interaction avec l'environnement, à tel point qu'elle est considérée comme un processus cognitif fondamental.
