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Grounding Crisp and Fuzzy Ontological Concepts in Artificial Cognitive Agents

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2006)

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The grounding of crisp and fuzzy concepts is defined for the class of artificial cognitive agents equipped with means for recognizing states of external objects and language signs. Each concept is created in the internal cognitive space of the agent in the context of social communication. This communication makes it possible to correlate cognitive agent’s perceptions with language signs generated by other members of the same population of agents. Related processes yield the so called semiotic relation consisting of recognized instances of semiotic triangles. A simple measure between concepts is suggested and used to define higher level relations of semantic synonymy, similarity, generalization and contradiction. In consequence an approach to modeling ontology creation for a particular class of agents and a particular language is defined.

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  1. Institute of Information Science and Engineering, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-350, Wrocław

    Radosław Piotr Katarzyniak

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  1. School of Design, Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University, UK

    Bogdan Gabrys

  2. Centre for SMART Systems, School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, 5095, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Katarzyniak, R.P. (2006). Grounding Crisp and Fuzzy Ontological Concepts in Artificial Cognitive Agents. In: Gabrys, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4253. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11893011_130

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