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Artefact Cataloguing System as a Reasoning Model

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Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage

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Abstract

There is a multitude of methods for organizing information but here we will discuss the possibilities for sorting historical artifacts in order to maximize the extractable information. During her work on the doctoral thesis “Architectural History of Mediterranean Lighthouses” V. Klepo has come across a number of artefacts which suggest certain buildings might have functioned as lighthouses in one or more historical periods. The vastness of this research area that encompasses the study of so many additional factors, which are instrumental in the analytical identification of lighthouses, presented itself as a good starting point for this small study. In this cluster of interrelated artefacts and information fragments the use of knowledge-based systems is of particular interest as means of approximating human expert reasoning. In this work we present a raw draft of a reasoning model for defining the concept of the lighthouse and the dependency-network of evidence that has any influence on it, while trying to remain as close to human expert thinking as possible.

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Notes

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    A base is a finite set of linearly independent components that define a hyperspace of as many dimensions as there are components in the base. Each object in the so defined hyperspace can be defined as a unique linear combination of the base components.

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    From today’s point of view.

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    If two sets are disjunctive the set of their shared elements is empty.

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    The influence of the k parents on the child node according to the Bayesian probability [4] is expressed as the sum of the probability of the node event over any exhaustive set of mutually exclusive parent events. This would mean a complexity of O(2expk) for each node. However, by considering when the influence of a parent can be blocked, we can achieve a complexity of O(k) [3].

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  1. Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Visnja Klepo & Galina Paskaleva

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  1. IWR, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 368, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany

    Hans Georg Bock

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    Willi Jäger

  3. Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für, Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (IWR), Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 368, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany

    Michael J. Winckler

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Klepo, V., Paskaleva, G. (2013). Artefact Cataloguing System as a Reasoning Model. In: Bock, H., Jäger, W., Winckler, M. (eds) Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage. Contributions in Mathematical and Computational Sciences, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28021-4_15

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