The digital transformation of our society coupled with the increasing exploitation of natural
resources makes sustainability challenges more complex and dynamic than ever before …

Traditionally, instances of attributes in conceptual modeling languages are associated to
values like “1, 86”,“small” or “John”. But what do such values mean? What is the realworld …

JJ Gibson's concept of affordances has provided a theoretical basis for various studies in
geographical information science (GISc). This paper sets out to explain its popularity from a …

The notion of affordance remains elusive, notwithstanding its importance for the
representation of agency, cognition, and behaviors. This paper lays down a foundation for …

In this chapter we present an Ontology Design Pattern for the definition of situation-driven
behaviour selection and arbitration models for cognitive agents. The proposed pattern relies …

This research is motivated by the discrepancy between the spatial model underlying current
geographical information systems (GIS) and the human way of structuring space into …

In the design of cognitive agents like robots, behaviour selection (also called behaviour
arbitration) is the process of deciding which action to execute at each point of time. For the …