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Frederico T. Fonseca
Researcher at Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology
Publications - 63
Citations - 2425
Frederico T. Fonseca is an academic researcher from Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ontology (information science) & Geographic information system. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 63 publications receiving 2368 citations. Previous affiliations of Frederico T. Fonseca include University of Maine & University of Maine System.
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From Geo-Pragmatics to Derivation Ontologies: New Directions for the GeoSpatial Semantic Web
TL;DR: Ontologies provide precise definitions and can be linked to different contexts so that these terms have precise meanings that can be handled by the software agents.
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Space and time in eco-ontologies
TL;DR: This work argues that a key to the specification of eco-ontologies is the notion of teleological organization grounded in a notion of recursion, and introduces the idea of roles to characterize the generalized and interactive teleological aspects of ecological systems.
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Toward an alternative notion of information systems ontologies: Information engineering as a hermeneutic enterprise: Research Articles
TL;DR: The main contributions of this paper are conclusions that (a) information system ontologies should take into consideration a perspective of the philosophy and history of science, and (b) hermeneutics as construed by Gadamer (1975, 1979) constitutes a place from which the authors can understand the tasks of information ontologists and database users.
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Beyond Newspeak: three arguments for the persistence of the informal in the creation and use of computational ontologies
TL;DR: It is concluded that the process of reflective reasoning described here is the context in play when in the appropriate use of consistent computational ontologies, as well as being the foundation of collaborative communicative enterprises.
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Play as the way out of the newspeak-tower of babel dilemma in data modeling
TL;DR: It is argued that the concept of play in Gadamer can be seen as the “place” where differences and similarities among various perspectives are expressed and discussed, and that a similar play, in conjunction with the dimension of application, is the way beyond the either/or of the Tower of Babel versus Newspeak dilemma.