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Advanced Methods for Inconsistent Knowledge Management

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  • © 2008

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Authors:
  1. Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

    1. Wroclaw University of Technology, 50-370, Poland

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  • Currently no other book on Inconsistent Knowledge Management
  • Several methods based on Consensus Computing are presented as a tool for reconciling inconsistency of knowledge
  • Offers methods for processing inconsistent knowledge on syntactic and semantic levels, as well as for resolving inconsistency of ontologies
  • Several applications of proposed methods are given
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing (AI&KP)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Inconsistency of Knowledge

    • Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
    Pages 1-12

  3. Model of Knowledge Conflict

    • Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
    Pages 13-46

  4. Consensus as a Tool for Conflict Solving

    • Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
    Pages 47-100

  5. Model for Knowledge Integration

    • Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
    Pages 101-122

  6. Processing Inconsistency on the Syntactic Level

    • Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
    Pages 123-163

  7. Processing Inconsistency on the Semantic Level

    • Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
    Pages 165-201

  8. Consensus for Fuzzy Conflict Profiles

    • Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
    Pages 203-222

  9. Processing Inconsistency of Expert Knowledge

    • Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
    Pages 223-239

  10. Ontology Integration

    • Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
    Pages 241-262

  11. Application of Inconsistency Resolution Methods in Intelligent Learning Systems

    • Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
    Pages 263-306

  12. Processing Inconsistency in Information Retrieval

    • Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
    Pages 307-333

  13. Conclusions

    • Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
    Pages 335-336

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 337-351
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About this book

Nowadays in the knowledge society, each member deals with a number of tasks related to knowledge management. The most often realized tasks are: decision making, knowledge integration, selection, and retrieval. In all these tasks one has to solve inconsistency of knowledge. Inconsistency is a feature of knowledge which is characterized by the lack of possibility for inference processes. Therefore, solving inconsistency of knowledge is a basic and very essential subtask in many tasks of knowledge management. The whole management process may become impossible if the incons- tency is not resolved. This book presents a set of methods for resolving inconsistency of kn- ledge. It originally treats the inconsistency on two levels, syntactic and semantic, and proposes methods for processing inconsistency on these levels. The methods proposed here are consensus based. They are worked out on the basis of mathematical models for representing inconsistency as well as tools for measuring and evaluating the degree of inconsistency, defined by the author. The presented material shows that the solution of inconsistency is str- gly related to knowledge integration processes. Therefore, along with - consistency resolution tools, the author proposes algorithms for knowledge integration, such as ontology integration, or agent knowledge states in- gration. The author has put across a deep and valuable analysis of the p- posed models by proving a number of interesting and useful theorems and remarks. Owing to these analysis results one can decide to use the worked out algorithms for concrete practical situations.

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"The author summarizes most of his research, and the other research that has been done concerning how to resolve the aforementioned inconsistencies, when they refer to the same object or phenomenon in the real world. … It is written in an accessible, pedagogical manner, and thus will be quite useful, not only for specialists, but also for advanced or postgraduate students in computer science, particularly those interested in the development of artificial intelligence and its practical applications. I highly recommend this book." (Arturo Ortiz-Tapia, Computing Reviews, Vol. 50 (1), January, 2009)

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  • Wroclaw University of Technology, 50-370, Poland

    Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

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