by Dave McComb | Jan 19, 2015 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Fractal geometry creates beautiful patterns from simple recursive algorithms. One of the things we find so appealing is their “self-similarity” at different scales. That is, as you zoom in to look at a detail under more magnification you see many of the same patterns...
by Dave McComb | Nov 3, 2014 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Many taxonomies, especially well designed taxonomies with many facets, have dimensions that consist of very few, often just two categories, however this may cause more harm than it's worth. It is tempting to give these Boolean like tags, such as "Yes"/"No" or "Y"/"N"...
by Michael Uschold | Oct 3, 2014 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Explore the relationship between Taxonomy and Ontology with this presentation by Michael Uschold from a keynote talk at the International Conference on Semantic Computing. Click Here to View The PDF The Menu (Taxonomy) vs. the Meal (Ontology) Taxonomy and Thesauri:...
by Dave McComb | Sep 12, 2014 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies, White Papers
At the time of this writing almost no enterprises in North America have a formal enterprise ontology. Yet we believe that within a few years this will become one of the foundational pieces to most information system work within major enterprises. In this paper, we...
by Dave McComb | Jul 22, 2014 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
The idea of supersumption may solve some common Object Oriented problems. We’ve been doing training in Semantics and Description Logics lately, and have decided it’s worth emphasizing the concept of supersumption. Of course, supersumption is nothing but...
by Dave McComb | Jul 22, 2014 | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
What history can teach us about semantics. Lately we’ve been grappling with the issue of how to get a Semantics Inference Engine and a Business Rules Engine to play nice in an Enterprise Architecture. Some long dormant neuron fired and the Treaty of Tordesillas was...
