Intuitive approach to knowledge integration
Wojciech A. Lorkiewicz, Grzegorz Popek, Radosław Piotr Katarzyniak · 2013
Integration of distributed knowledge is one of the crucial tasks in modern societies. This paper describes a framework for an integration of distributed knowledge. The integrated stance is further communicated using linguistic statements. Idealised approaches found in the literature largely tend to evaluate to a single centroid, and as such, provide unintuitive results, mostly in societies with low consistency. Proposed framework reflects a multi-stage character of intuitive knowledge integration. Individual stances are first reinterpreted to knowledge items defined over a common ground, universe. Further, items are collated to form consistent clusters of knowledge that characterise with high consistency and are suitable for the idealised approach. Finally, each identified cluster is assigned with a certain linguistic label and communicated using modal operators which allow to express an interplay between the strengths of different views in the society.