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Ostensive definition

Known as: Ostensively, Ostention, Ostensive 
An ostensive definition conveys the meaning of a term by pointing out examples. This type of definition is often used where the term is difficult to… 
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Review
2015
Review
2015
Measuring IT Service Management Capability: Scale Development and Empirical Validation
This paper conceptualizes IT service management (ITSM) capability, a key competence of today's IT provider organizations, and… 
2010
2010
Constructing Bodies and their Qualities from Observations
The principle challenge for information semantics lies in the degrees of freedom to interpret symbols in terms of thoughts and… 
Review
2010
Review
2010
BIOLOGICAL TAXONOMY AND ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT: SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS
The prospects of integrating full-blown biological taxonomies into an ontological reasoning framework are critically reviewed… 
2009
2009
Modeling Collaborative Behavior: Foundations for Collaboration Technologies
Can models of collaboration serve as a foundation for development of collaborative technologies in much the same way that… 
2008
2008
Alignment or Drift? Loose Coupling over Time in NASA's ERP Implementation
Through a grounded analysis of NASA's ERP implementation that spans the four years after the system went live, we motivate the… 
2003
2003
Double-Duty Quotation: The Deferred Ostension Account
This paper starts by outlining relevant aspects of a view of how indexicals in general and demonstratives in particular work… 
2003
2003
Ostensive Automatic Schema Mapping for Taxonomy-Based Peer-to-Peer Systems
This paper considers Peer-to-Peer systems in which peers employ taxonomies for describing the contents of their objects and for… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Searching the web by constrained spreading activation
1992
1992
Contribution a l'etude de la hierarchie implicative : application a l'analyse de la gestion didactique des phenomenes d'ostension et de contradictions
Ce travail est centre sur deux objets apparemment differents mais etroitement dependants. D'une part, une etude mathematique dote… 
1979
1979
Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears: Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in Yiddish
1. Introduction 2. Semantic subtypes of psycho-ostensive expressions 3. Bono-recognition thanks and congratulations 4. Malo… 
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