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Knowledge granularity, usually identified with the size of knowledge granules, seems to be real challenge for knowledge consumers as well as for knowledge creators. In this paper, relationships between knowledge granularity as a result of different ways of a knowledge representation are considered. The paper deals with the problem of developing knowledge grid in the context of encapsulation of knowledge including different dimensions and measures. The origin of the problem is discussed in the first section stressing flexibility of knowledge interpretations. Concepts of knowledge granularity (also from formal point of view) are presented in the next section. The nature of well represented knowledge is considered in the next chapter with references to granularity of knowledge. In the last part of the paper the question of formulating knowledge granularity in the context of knowledge grid concepts is discussed. This document comprising guidelines for authors is divided into several sections.
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Mach, M.A., Owoc, M.L. (2010). Knowledge Granularity and Representation of Knowledge: Towards Knowledge Grid. In: Shi, Z., Vadera, S., Aamodt, A., Leake, D. (eds) Intelligent Information Processing V. IIP 2010. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 340. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16327-2_31
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