Publicaties
The State Context Property Formalism: From Concept Theory to the Semantics of Music Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Well-quasi orders in computation, logic, language and reasoning : a unifying concept of proof theory, automata theory, formal languages and descriptive set theory Universiteit Gent
Classical logical versus quantum conceptual thought: examples in economy, decision theory and concept theory. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Inspired by a quantum mechanical formalism to model concepts and their disjunctions and conjunctions, we put forward in this
paper a specific hypothesis. Namely that within human thought two superposed layers can be distinguished: (i) a layer guided by an underlying classical deterministic process, giving rise to essentially logical thought and its indeterministic version modeled by classical probability theory; (ii) a layer guided by ...
paper a specific hypothesis. Namely that within human thought two superposed layers can be distinguished: (i) a layer guided by an underlying classical deterministic process, giving rise to essentially logical thought and its indeterministic version modeled by classical probability theory; (ii) a layer guided by ...
Examining the role of (un)conscious determinants in online gambling : complementing the theory of planned behavior with the concept of habit Universiteit Gent
While concerns about online gambling behavior exist, the involved psychological mechanisms and playing patterns across digital media and locations remain unclear. This study provides information from a nationally representative sample of 1841 adult Belgian respondents. Theoretically, the study contributes by introducing the concept of habit strength as a predictor of gambling behavior. Habit strength is viewed as complementary to gambling ...
The New Creatures of Difference: A Look at the Concept of Repetition Within Dissipative Systems Theory Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This essay also draws from inquiries in epistemology, systems theory, and evolutionary biology to examine the concept of repetition as a creature of difference. Here, repetition recasts traditional concepts of difference, identity, and change. Thus it should be no surprise that the work of Gilles Deleuze is a key reference. French philosopher Gilles Deleuze had perhaps gone furthest in endowing the problem of repetition with a measure of the ...
The quantum challenge in concept theory and natural language processing Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The mathematical formalism of quantum theory has been successfully used in human cognition to model decision processes and to deliver representations of human knowledge. As such, quantum cognition inspired tools have improved technologies for Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. In this paper, we overview the quantum cognition approach developed in our Brussels team during the last two decades, specifically our identification ...
Quantum and Concept Combination, Entangled Measurements, and Prototype Theory Vrije Universiteit Brussel
We analyze the meaning of the violation of the marginal probability law for situations of correlation measurements where entanglement is identified. We show that for quantum theory applied to the cognitive realm such a violation does not lead to the type of problems commonly believed to occur in situations of quantum theory applied to the physical realm. We briefly situate our quantum approach for modeling concepts and their combinations with ...
Curbing domestic violence: instantiating C-K theory with formal concept analysis and emergent self organizing maps KU Leuven
In this paper we propose a human-centered process for knowledge discovery from unstructured text that makes use of Formal Concept Analysis and Emergent Self Organizing Maps. The knowledge discovery process is conceptualized and interpreted as successive iterations through the Concept-Knowledge (C-K) theory design square. To illustrate its effectiveness, we report on a real-life case study of using the process at the Amsterdam-Amstelland police ...
An iterative requirements engineering framework based on Formal Concept Analysis and C–K theory KU Leuven
In this paper, we propose an expert system for iterative requirements engineering using Formal Concept Analysis. The requirements engineering approach is grounded in the theoretical framework of C–K theory. An essential result of this approach is that we obtain normalized class models. Compared to traditional UML class models, these normalized models are free of ambiguities such as many-to-many, optional-to-optional or reflexive associations ...