Technical Report: V-922, ICS AS CR, Prague, 2005, 11 p.
Integration has been an acknowledged data processing problem for a long time. However, there is no universal tool for general data integration. Because various data descriptions, data heterogeneity, and machine unreadability, it is not easy way. Improvement in this situation could bring the Semantic Web. Its idea is based on machine understandable web data, which bring us an opportunity of better automated processing. The SemanticWeb is still a future vision, but there are already some features we can use. The paper describes how is integration solved in mediation integration system VirGIS and discusses use of nowadays Semantic Web features to improve it. According to the proposed changes, a new ontology that covers data used in VirGIS is presented.
Technical Report: V-925, ICS AS CR, Prague, 2005, 10 p.
Abstract Logic is the foundational discipline of many sciences. Part mathematics, part philosophy and part computing science, logic remains a core intellectual study and is increasingly relevant to practical concerns. It spreads into planning, into program synthesis, into circuit design and into discourse analysis. It underpins the entire science of artiŻcial intelligence. In order to increase knowledge from the field of logic, I participated in the Logic Summer School. This report covers some information.
Technical Report: V-932, ICS AS CR, 2005, 9 p.
Knowledge representation in geographic information systems (GIS) and associated data processing presents many challenges for researchers. To use ontologies as knowledge representation belongs to the most topical problems to solve. This involves ontology development as well as ontology re-usage. The goal of the research described in this paper is to develop a specific ontology for a given GIS area.
Technical Report: V-938, ICS AS CR, 2005, 12 p.
Ontologies play an important role in knowledge representation. Among various fields, where ontologies can be useful, is the GIS data area. We consider data in a specific GIS domain and develop a new ontology. The result is described in this paper.
Technical Report: V-947, ICS AS CR, 2005
In this paper we present an architecture for decision making of software agents that allows the agent to behave autonomously. Our target area is computational agents — encapsulating various neural networks, genetic algorithms, and similar methods — that are expected to solve problems of different nature within an environment of a hybrid computational multi-agent system. The architecture is based on the vertically-layered and belief-desire-intention architectures. Several experiments with computational agents were conducted to demonstrate the benefits of the architecture.