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of knowledge, this paper delineates a framework that uses an underlying ontology to structure the course material. In … general, ontology-based e-learning tools are primarily static in nature, since they cannot learn new teaching materials and …/or teaching strategies on their own. In order to overcome this limitation, an intelligent ontology-based e-learning system has …
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character, starting from a general background regarding learning in general and reachingparticularity by providing an ontology …
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technologies, such as: ontology, competence standards, IMS Standards. …
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This article deals with statistical education as it is usual at economic faculties. We indicate some new lanes to adapt old-fashioned teaching habits to up-to-date technological means. A major rule play real data examples and their treatment by a computer. Besides a discussion of general...
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This paper evaluates the dynamic aspects of the UML in the context of inter-organizational workflows. Two evaluation methodologies are used. The first one is ontological and is based on the BWW (Bunge-Wand-Weber) models. The second validation is based on prototyping and consists in the...
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Based on the ontological and epistemological problems and solutions exposed in the previous paper, we scrutinize the philosophical grounds of three main schools of economics. They are not opposing one another as solid blocks of incompatible ideas and theories, but each school contains...
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In the view of analysing the differences and resemblances of the natural and social sciences (with the economics between them), some of their ontological and epistemological problems and solutions are presented. Many methodological options succeed to preserve the basic unity and autonomy of the...
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This paper has a methodological purpose, as we are aiming to show practices of accounting research designing. In that heuristic, we are basing our argument on Burrell’s and Morgan’s (1979), Feyerabend’s (1975), Quattrone’s (2000, 2004b) and Lowe’s (2004a, b) epistemo-methodological...
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This paper introduces a special issue of the journal devoted to work presented at two recent conferences of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE). The AHE is an organisation which advocates and provides a forum for non-mainstream approaches to economics. Recent conferences have focused...
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This paper argues that critical realism conceived as a meta­theory for scientific activities offers a consistent set of helpful philosophical resources from which a potentially fruitful position of economic methodology may be developed. When fully developed, a critical realist­inspired...
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