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International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT) Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association Volume 5, Issue 2, April-June 2009 Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1548-3657 EISSN: 1548-3665 Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA www.igi-global.com/ijiit

Editor-in-Chief: Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA

Special Issue: The 15th International Conference on Conceptual Structures

GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE

Conceptual Structures: Tools and Applications

Simon Polovina (ICCS 2007 General Chair) Richard Hill (ICCS 2007 Co-program chair) Babak Akhgar (ICCS 2007 Workshops Chair)

The 15th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2007, www.iccs2007.info) was held at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. ICCS (www.iccs.info) is a series of annual conferences that have been held in Europe, Australia, and North America since 1993. The objective driving research and development on �conceptual structures� is to harmonize the uniquely human ways of apprehending the world, with the power of computational information management and reasoning. To bring the message of conceptual structures to a wider audience, ICCS 2007 hosted a number of workshops ranging across software interoperability, trust and security, grid computing, bioinformatics, rough sets, ubiquitous and collaborative computing, and Semantic information retrieval.

To read the guest editorial preface, please consult this issue of IJIIT in your library.

PAPER ONE

Virtual Organisational Trust Requirements: Can Semiotics Help Fill The Trust Gap?

Tim French, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK

It is suggested that the use of the semiotic ladder, together with a supportive trust agent can be used together to better explicate �soft� trust issues in the context of grid services. The contribution offered here is intended to fill a gap in current understanding and modeling of such issues and to support grid service designers to better conceptualize and manage trust issues. This semiotic paradigm is intended to offer an integrative viewpoint within which to explicate �soft� trust issues throughout the grid life-cycle. A computationally lightweight trust agent is described that can be used to verify high level trust of a virtual organization.

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PAPER TWO

Association Analysis of Alumni Giving: A Formal Concept Analysis

Ray R. Hashemi, Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA Louis A. Le Blanc, Berry College, USA Azita A. Bahrami, Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA Mahmood Bahar, Tabiet Moallem University, USA Bryan Traywick, Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA

A large sample (initially 33,000 cases representing a ten percent trial) of university alumni giving records for a large public university in the southwestern United States is analyzed by a formal concept analysis. This likely represents the initial attempt to perform analysis of such data by means of a machine learning technique. The foundation serves as one of the institution�s non-profit, fund-raising organizations. It pursues substantial gifts that are designated for the educational or leadership programs of the giver�s choice. Although they process gifts of all sizes, the foundation�s focus is on major gifts and endowments. Association Analysis of the given dataset is a two-step process. The hypothesis examined in this paper is that the generosity of alumni toward his/her alma mater can be predicted using association rules obtained by applying the formal concept analysis approach.

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PAPER THREE

A Transactions Pattern for Structuring Unstructured Corporate Information in Enterprise Applications

Simon Polovina, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Richard Hill, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

It is known that 80-85% of all corporate information remains unstructured. As such, many enterprises rely on information systems that cause them to risk transactions that are based on lack of information or misleading information. To address this concern, the fundamental business concept of monetary transactions is extended to include qualitative business concepts. A transaction model (TM) is accordingly identified that provides a structure for these unstructured but vital aspects of business transactions. This article provides a simple example that illustrates integration and reveals a missing key element. This discovery points to a transactions pattern that can be used to ensure that all the parties (or agents) in a transaction are identified, as well as capturing unstructured and structured information into a coherent framework. In support of the TM as a pattern, more examples of its use in a variety of domains are provided in this article. The authors suggest a number of enterprise applications are suggested such as in multi-agent systems, document text capture, and knowledge management.

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PAPER FOUR

Using Organizational Semiotics and Conceptual Graphs in a Two-Step Method for Knowledge Management Process Improvement Measurement

Jeffrey A. Schiffel, The Boeing Company, USA

The semantic normal forms of organizational semiotics extract structures from natural language texts that may be stored electronically. The SNFs are only canonic descriptions of the patterns of behavior observed in a culture. With their dynamic variety, conceptual and dataflow graphs provide means to reason over propositions in first order logics; however, conceptual graphs do not capture the ontological entities needed for such reasoning. The culture of an organization contains natural language entities that can be extracted for the use in knowledge representation and reasoning. Together in a rigorous, two-step process, ontology charting from organizational semiotics and dataflow graphs from knowledge engineering provide a means to extract entities of interest from a subject domain such as the culture of organizations and then to represent these entities in formal logic reasoning. This paper presents this process and concludes with an example of how process improvement in an IT organization may be measured in this two-step process.

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PAPER FIVE

KStore: A Dynamic Meta-Knowledge Repository for Intelligent BI

Jane Campbell Mazzagatti, As It Is Inc., USA

KStore is a computer data structure based on the Phaneron of C. S. Peirce (Peirce, 1931-1958). This structure, called a Knowledge Store, KStore, or simply K, is currently being developed as a storage engine to support BI data queries and analysis (Mazzagatti, 2007). The first Ks being constructed handles nominal data and records sequences of field/record data variables and their relationships. These rudimentary Ks are dynamic, allowing real-time data processing, ad hoc queries, and data compression, to facilitate data mining. This paper describes a next step in the development of the K structure.

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Mission of IJIIT:

The advent of the World Wide Web has sparked renewed interest in the area of intelligent information technologies. There is a growing interest in developing intelligent technologies that enable users to accomplish complex tasks in Web-centric environments with relative ease, utilizing such technologies as intelligent agents, distributed computing in heterogeneous environments, and computer supported collaborative work. The mission of the International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies is to bring together researchers in related fields such as information systems, distributed AI, intelligent agents, and collaborative work, to explore and discuss various aspects of design and development of intelligent technologies. This journal provides a forum for academics and practitioners to explore research issues related to not only the design, implementation, and deployment of intelligent systems and technologies but also economic issues and organizational impact. Papers related to all aspects of intelligent systems including theoretical work on agent and multi-agent systems, as well as case studies offering insights into agent-based problem solving with empirical or simulation based evidence are welcome.

Coverage of IJIIT: Agent-based auction, contracting, negotiation, and e-commerce Agent-based control and supply chain Agent-based simulation and application integration Cooperative and collaborative systems Distributed intelligent systems and technologies Human-agent interaction and experimental evaluation Implementation, deployment, diffusion, and organizational impact Integrating business intelligence from internal and external sources Intelligent agent and multi-agent systems in various domains Intelligent decision support systems Intelligent information retrieval and business intelligence Intelligent information systems development using design science principles Intelligent Web mining and knowledge discovery systems Manufacturing information systems Models, architectures, and behavior models for agent-oriented information systems Multimedia information processing Privacy, security, and trust issues Reasoning, learning, and adaptive systems Semantic Web, Web services, and ontologies

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijiit.

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Vijayan Sugumaran, sugumara@oakland.edu

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