Ontologies and the brain: Using spreading activation through ontologies to support personal interaction

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-41

  Katifori, Akrivi ^a   Vassilakis, Costas ^b   Dix, Alan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ontology; Personal interaction; Personal ontology; Spreading activation; User tasks

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ALGORITHM; CONTEXT INFERENCE; HUMAN BRAIN; KNOWLEDGE STORES; PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PERSONAL INTERACTION; PERSONAL ONTOLOGY; TASK INFORMATION;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

ONTOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; LONG TERM MEMORY; ONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 77953609511     PISSN: 13890417     EISSN: 13890417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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