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Chapter and Conference Paper
Counterfactual Reasoning
Primary goal of this paper is to show that counterfactual reasoning, as many other kinds of common sense reasoning, can be studied and analyzed through what we can call a cognitive approach, that represents kn...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Rationality, Autonomy and Coordination: The Sunk Costs Perspective
Our thesis is that an agent1 is autonomous only if he is capable, within a non predictable environment, to balance two forms of rationality: one that, given goals and preferences, enables him to select the best c...
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Abductive Reasoning, Interpretation and Collaborative Processes
In this paper we want to examine how the mutual understanding of speakers is reached during a conversation through collaborative processes, and what role is played by abductive inference (in the Peircean sense...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards an Ontological Foundation for Services Science
Most of the efforts conducted on services nowadays are focusing on aspects related to data and control flow, often disregarding the main goal of the future Internet of services, namely to allow the smooth interac...
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Towards an Ontological Foundation for Services Science: The Legal Perspective
As a growing number of economic transactions tend to happen in the Web, their legal implications and assumptions need to be made explicit in the proper way, in order to facilitate interoperability across diffe...
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Open Ontology-Driven Sociotechnical Systems: Transparency as a Key for Business Resiliency
Most business and social organisations can be seen nowadays as complex sociotechnical systems (STSs), including three components: technical artifacts, social artifacts, and humans. Within social artifacts, a spec...
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Service System Approaches
Over the last several years, services science has emerged as an effective means to understand services and the socio-technical systems in which they are deployed. This systemic view requires a genuinely interdisc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Commitment-Based Modeling of Service Systems
This contribution presents an ontological model of services that describes them as complex temporal entities, constituted by interrelations of states, actions and processes, occurring in a wider service system...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Ontology-Assisted Object Detection: Towards the Automatic Learning with Internet
Automatic detection approaches depend essentially on the use of classifiers, that in turn are based on the learning of a given training set. The choice of the training data is crucial: even if this aspect is o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Viewing the Viewers: A Novel Challenge for Automated Crowd Analysis
We focus on the automated analysis of spectator crowd, that is, people watching sport contests alive (in stadiums, amphitheaters etc.), or, more generally, people “watching the activities of an event […] interest...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
ATTENTO: ATTENTion Observed for Automated Spectator Crowd Analysis
We propose a new type of crowd analysis, focused on the spectator crowd, that is, people “interested in watching something specific that they came to see” [1]. This scenario applies on stadiums, amphitheaters etc...
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Arbitral Functions and Constitutive Rules
Nowadays, it is widely recognized that constitutive rules play a key role in social ontology. They are considered the primary source of meaning for every rule-based activity. But what can ensure the persistenc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Just the Way You Chat: Linking Personality, Style and Recognizability in Chats
Text chatting represents a hybrid type of communication, where textual information is delivered following turn-taking dynamics, which characterize spoken interactions. It is interesting to understand whether s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multiagent Socio-Technical Systems: An Ontological Approach
Socio-technical systems constitute a challenge for multiagent systems as they are complex scenarios in which human and artificial agents share information, interact and make decisions. For example, the design ...
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Die Strafzumessung gegenüber älteren Straftätern im internationalen Vergleich: Deutschland, England & Wales und Italien
Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der Frage, welche Rolle das Lebensalter eines Angeklagten bei der Strafzumessung gegenüber älteren Straftätern spielt und welche Besonderheiten das Rechtssystem dabei kennt. Dabei ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Semantic-Analysis Object Recognition: Automatic Training Set Generation Using Textual Tags
Training sets of images for object recognition are the pillars on which classifiers base their performances. We have built a framework to support the entire process of image and textual retrieval from search e...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards a Conceptualization of Sociomaterial Entanglement
In knowledge representation, socio-technical systems can be modeled as multiagent systems in which the local knowledge of each individual agent can be seen as a context. In this paper we propose formal ontolog...
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Group Conflict as Social Contradiction
This paper is a contribution to the development of an ontology of conflict. In particular, we single out and study a peculiar notion of group conflict, that we suggestively label “social contradiction.” In ord...
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Open AccessHybrid collective intentionality
The theory of collective agency and intentionality is a flourishing field of research, and our understanding of these phenomena has arguably increased greatly in recent years. Extant theories, however, are sti...
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Open AccessA Teleological Approach to Information Systems Design
In recent years, the design and production of information systems have seen significant growth. However, these information artefacts often exhibit characteristics that compromise their reliability. This issue app...
