Tutorial
2007
International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICICĄŻ07)
August 21-24,
2007
Qingdao China
(http://www.ic-ic.org/2007/index.htm)
Tutorial
Speaker
Methods for Processing and Integration
of Inconsistent Knowledge
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Professor & Ph.D
Institute of Information Science and Engineering
Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Email: Ngoc-Thanh.Nguyen@pwr.wroc.pl
Personal website: http://www.iit.pwr.wroc.pl/~nguyen/eng_index.html
Abstract and Table of Content:
Inconsistent Knowledge Processing (IKP) is a subject being the common point
of Knowledge Management and Conflict Resolution. IKP deals with methods for
reconciling inconsistent content of knowledge. Inconsistency of knowledge has
a large aspect which may be considered on two levels: syntactic and semantic.
On the syntactic level inconsistency may be treated in the same way as for contradictory
of logic formulas. On the semantic level, on the other hand, inconsistency appears
when these formulas are interpreted in some concrete real world. For solving
a large number of conflicts, and especially, for resolving inconsistency of
knowledge on semantic level, consensus methods have been shown to be useful.
The integration process for a set of pieces of inconsistent knowledge is based
on determining a piece of knowledge which best represents the given pieces.
For realizing this task we define first a set of postulates which are intuitive
conditions for integration, next we analyze the postulates referring to their
dependencies and independencies and work out the algorithms for integration
process.
Features & topics include:
- Conflict of knowledge and measures for inconsistency
- Consensus theory as a tool for conflict solving
- Inconsistency of knowledge ¨C syntactic & semantic levels
- A model for knowledge integration
- Ontology integration
- Processing inconsistency of expert knowledge
- Practical aspects and applications of proposed methods
Short
bio: Ngoc Thanh Nguyen currently works as a professor
of Computer Science in Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland. His scientific
interests consist of knowledge integration methods, intelligent technologies
for conflict resolution, inconsistent knowledge processing, multi-agent systems
and E-learning methods. He has edited 6 special issues in international journals
and two books. He is the author of 4 monographs and about 130 other publications.
He serves as Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent Information
and Database Systems, Associate Editor of International Journal of
Computer Science & Applications; Journal of Information Knowledge
System Management and KES Journal and a member of Editorial Boards
of several other international journals such as Journal of Applied Intelligence
and Journal of Universal Computer Science. He has been a General Chair,
Program Chair, Program Co-chair for several international conferences in Computer
Science. He is the Chair of KES symposium series on Agent and Multi-agent Systems.
He is a member of Ph.D. Thesis Examiners Register of University of South Australia.
He is a member of the Interdisciplinary Committee for Preparatory FP7 Grants
in Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. He is a Senior Member of
ACM, a member of IFIP WG 7.2 and several other scientific societies.