Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases VI, (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications)

This volume presents, in survey articles, the efforts to study foundations and applications of conceptual modelling in various environments. The motivation behind these efforts is the fact that conceptual modelling and knowledge representation, together with various kinds of inference systems, are important sub-fields in the design and use of information systems. The modelling problem is essential in many disciplines, including: data-base design; knowledge engineering; logic; artificial intelligence; cognitive science; philosophy; and linguistics.