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Informaticology: combining Computer Science, Data Science, and Fiction Science
Motivated by an intention to remedy current complications with Dutch
terminology concerning informatics, the term informaticology is positioned to
denote an academic counterpart of informatics where informatics is conceived of
as a container for a coherent family of practical disciplines ranging from
computer engineering and software engineering to network technology, data
center management, information technology, and information management in a
broad sense.
Informaticology escapes from the limitations of instrumental objectives and
the perspective of usage that both restrict the scope of informatics. That is
achieved by including fiction science in informaticology and by ranking fiction
science on equal terms with computer science and data science, and framing (the
study of) game design, evelopment, assessment and distribution, ranging from
serious gaming to entertainment gaming, as a chapter of fiction science. A
suggestion for the scope of fiction science is specified in some detail.
In order to illustrate the coherence of informaticology thus conceived, a
potential application of fiction to the ontology of instruction sequences and
to software quality assessment is sketched, thereby highlighting a possible
role of fiction (science) within informaticology but outside gaming
Style Guidelines for Naming and Labeling Ontologies in the Multilingual Web
In the context of the Semantic Web, natural language descriptions associated with ontologies have proven to be of major importance not only to support ontology developers and adopters, but also to assist in tasks such as ontology mapping, information extraction, or natural language generation. In the state-of-the-art we find some attempts to provide guidelines for URI local names in English, and also some disagreement on the use of URIs for describing ontology elements. When trying to extrapolate these ideas to a multilingual scenario, some of these approaches fail to provide a valid solution. On the basis of some real experiences in the translation of ontologies from English into Spanish, we provide a preliminary set of guidelines for naming and labeling ontologies in a multilingual scenario
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A methodology for comparing design processes
Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge; Design and Innovation, Open UniversityWe gain insights into design processes by recognising similarities to other processes, often in radically different industries. The crucial determinants of what happens are characteristics shared with some other design processes. But there is no way to draw on comparisons beyond one's own experience. We are developing a programme of comparative design research that aims to map the similarities and differences between design processes, and develop a deeper understanding of how and why design is done differently in different industries, and how effective practices can be transferred between industries. In this paper we outline a methodology for creating analyses of design processes that facilitates both cross-process comparisons and the integration of different analytical perspectives on design. The analyst draws on a catalogue of previous design process descriptions for useful concepts, to map processes as a network of participants and activities and the relationships between them, and describe the causal relationships between the properties of the participants, activities and relationships.EPSR
Mitigating response distortion in IS ethics research
Distributed construction of conceptual models may lead to a set of problems when these models are to
be compared or integrated. Different kinds of comparison conflicts are known (e.g. naming conflicts
or structural conflicts), the resolution of which is subject of different approaches. However, the expost resolution of naming conflicts raises subsequent problems that origin from semantic diversities of
namings – even if they are syntactically the same. Therefore, we propose an approach that allows for
avoiding naming conflicts in conceptual models already during modelling. This way, the ex-post
resolution of naming conflicts becomes obsolete. In order to realise this approach we combine domain
thesauri as lexical conventions for the use of terms, and linguistic grammars as conventions for valid
phrase structures. The approach is generic in order to make it reusable for any conceptual modelling
language
The Joint COntrols Project Framework
The Framework is one of the subprojects of the Joint COntrols Project (JCOP),
which is collaboration between the four LHC experiments and CERN. By sharing
development, this will reduce the overall effort required to build and maintain
the experiment control systems. As such, the main aim of the Framework is to
deliver a common set of software components, tools and guidelines that can be
used by the four LHC experiments to build their control systems. Although
commercial components are used wherever possible, further added value is
obtained by customisation for HEP-specific applications. The supervisory layer
of the Framework is based on the SCADA tool PVSS, which was selected after a
detailed evaluation. This is integrated with the front-end layer via both OPC
(OLE for Process Control), an industrial standard, and the CERN-developed DIM
(Distributed Information Management System) protocol. Several components are
already in production and being used by running fixed-target experiments at
CERN as well as for the LHC experiment test beams. The paper will give an
overview of the key concepts behind the project as well as the state of the
current development and future plans.Comment: Paper from the 2003 Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics
(CHEP03), La Jolla, Ca, USA, March 2003, 4 pages, PDF. PSN THGT00
Annotations for Rule-Based Models
The chapter reviews the syntax to store machine-readable annotations and
describes the mapping between rule-based modelling entities (e.g., agents and
rules) and these annotations. In particular, we review an annotation framework
and the associated guidelines for annotating rule-based models of molecular
interactions, encoded in the commonly used Kappa and BioNetGen languages, and
present prototypes that can be used to extract and query the annotations. An
ontology is used to annotate models and facilitate their description
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