A treasure trove of Dedre Gentner links, titled “Analogy, Similarity, Metaphor and Mental Models” at Northwestern University, where she is Director of Cognitive Science Program.
Knowledge Engineering
Links- Knowledge Representation and the Semantic Web
Updated Oct 3 2008:
The representation of knowledge in general, particularly as it applies to the SemWeb.
From the KR.org site:
Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Incorporated (KR, Inc.) is a Scientific Foundation incorporated in the state of Massachusetts of the United States of America concerned with fostering research and communication on knowledge representation and reasoning.
Link - Ontologies for Bioinformatics
This article on ontologies in bioinformatics seeks to resolve problems in the standardization of nomenclature in the domain of biology and bioinformatics for text mining and data integration. While intended primarily for biotech, it is very concise and well-formulated and useful to anyone constructing an ontology.
Links - Ontologies and Organizations
The general definition of ontology at Wikipedia ( versus the computer science definition given in the main link ) is "a study of conceptions of reality and the nature of being". In some ways, the general definition is more appropriate to modeling organizations - the target audience for an organizational ontology is people, not computers.
The shortest and most intuitive definition of term ontology is 'a description of things that be'. For most purposes, it may be the best definition.
Links - CommonKADS
According to Wikipedia, the definition of CommonKADS is "a methodology to support structured knowledge engineering."
An interesting variation includes Multiagent Systems ( MAS-CommonKADS ). In the article A Methodological Proposal for Multiagent Systems Development extending CommonKADS, the major constituents of the CommonKADS Agent are:
Links- Knowledge Engineering
Updated Sept 16 2008
An interesting collection of people and papers at the UCLA Graduate Summer School 2007, Probabilistic Models of Cognition: The Mathematics of Mind ( encrypted for some reason ). What better way to spend one's summer.
