Safety and reliability are rigorously assessed during the design of dependable systems.
Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) processes are comprehensive, structured and logical …

Conceptual spaces have become an increasingly popular modeling tool in cognitive
psychology. The core idea of the conceptual spaces approach is that concepts can be …

We introduce a hierarchical framework for conjunctive concept combination based on
conceptual spaces and random set theory. The model has the flexibility to account for …

When expressing the experts' opinions in qualitative decision making (QDM), linguistic
hedges can be considered to modify the force expressed by a predefined linguistic term. If …

It's very important to develop and maintain courteous relations between the speaker and the
hearer in everyday conversation. Politeness is the basic principle of human relations which …

The common problem with the hierarchical tuning methods is the lack of conditions for
modification of the primary rules. The incremental approach accelerates the generation of …

We investigate the emergence of shared concepts in a community of language users using a
multi-agent simulation. We extend results showing that negated assertions are of use in …

We investigate the generation of new concepts from combinations of properties as an
artificial language develops. To do so, we have developed a new framework for conjunctive …

Based on the literature review in Chap. 1, we focus on some types of ULEs and introduce
the corresponding models in this chapter. These models are based on the virtual linguistic …

The existing semantic similarity calculation method of Chinese words, basing on HowNet,
cannot be used well for the similarity calculation of fuzzy concept in the specified …