Maziar Amirhosseini

• LIS Ph.D. and KTM. Ph.D. / Faculty Member
• Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization

This book explores the latest advances in how knowledge organization can both draw on and inform different disciplines and technological developments. It examines how best to combine theory and practice. The content considers practical solutions as well as the theory behind the design, development and implementation of knowledge organization system...

Purpose: The present research aims to identify the usefulness of the FWCI in evaluating the research activities of the researchers of the Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization. In addition, the comparison of different subject fields of the organization in terms of the FWCI scores and also the comparison of the researchers FWCI...

The purpose of this article is to delineate the process of evolution of know­ledge organization systems (KOSs) through identification of principles of unity such as internal and external unity in organizing the structure of KOSs to achieve content storage and retrieval purposes and to explain a novel method used in ranking of KOSs by proposing the...

The purpose of this article is to identify the most important factors and features in the evolution of thesauri and ontologies through a dialectic model. This model relies on a dialectic process or idea which could be discovered via a dialectic method. This method has focused on identifying the logical relationship between a beginning proposition,...

The purpose of this article is to analyze semantic relations based on graph-independent structural analysis in VocBench. The mix-method of deductive and inductive approach is adapted in operating the research methodology, especially for data collection. The research data are structural domains of semantic relations in ontologies. The data resource...

The wide range of governance tasks of the Ministry of Jahad Agriculture and its legal duties and also the related law and legislations emphasize on establishing and leadership of knowledge management in agricultural sector of Iran. In this case, farmers take into account as the end users in such knowledge-based systems in agricultural sector as wel...

The purpose of this article is to analyze semantic relations based on graph-independent structural analysis in VocBench. The mix-method of deductive and inductive approach is adapted in operating the research methodology, especially for data collection. The research data are structural domains of semantic relations in ontologies. The data resource...

Diverse tools, application and methods can logically be organized in clear categories (i.e., Gold standard, Application, Data-driven and Human assessment) or their dimensions (i.e., Functionality (task-based), Usability based and Structural evaluation). This paper attempts to propose a novel branch in structural analysis of ontology through analyzi...

Agricultural information system of Iran is not an organizational structure and it is not an organizational chart, it is an effective transformation and mutation toward integration and unity. International experiences have shown that the mechanism and strategies of various countries are different in achieving these kind of systems and there is no sa...

Traditionally, rural products in Iran, including agricultural, livestock and handicraft commodities, are marketed by intermediaries. This flow of commodity supply reduces the profitability of production for rural people and increases its profitability for middlemen. One another challenge of rural products’ production and supply is the lack of adequ...

Core literatures in ontology evaluation reveal that numerous methods and measures have been proposed to tackle problems which can be categorized into structural, functional and usability issues. Majority of the research in ontology evaluation have focused on functionality and usability rather than structural dimensions. To identify that two nodes i...

The concepts of simplicity and complexity play major roles in information storage and retrieval in knowledge organizations. This paper reports an investigation of these concepts in the structure of descriptors. The main purpose of simplicity is to decrease the number of words in the construction of descriptors as this idea affects semantic relation...

Ontology researchers struggle to propose various methods and methodology in ontology evaluation as reference sources for ontology engineering and evaluating process. In this paper, we intend to explain a new ontology evaluation methodology (i.e., OntoAbsolute) which it is proposed to evaluate structural domains in semantic relations and concepts in...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is recognized as an information and knowledge-base organization. FAO's activities comprise four main areas which are closely related to various aspects of information and knowledge: capture and analyze, disseminate and share, localize and provide. The goal of developing and maintaini...

There are several invisible domains in knowledge organization system (KOS) that these domains need to investigate for improving our knowledge about them. Simplicity concept, which is emphasized by thesauri construction standards, is one of the important invisible domains in Knowledge organizations. Both the ISO 2788 and BS 5723 command leads thesau...

The quantitative evaluation of thesauri has been carried out much further since 1976. This type of evaluation is based on counting of special factors in thesaurus structure, some of which arecounting preferred terms, non preferred terms, cross reference terms and so on. Therefore, variousstatistical tests have been proposed and applied for evaluati...

ISO 2788 and BS 8723 emphasize on construction of simple or unitary descriptors and splitting compound words into simpler concepts to improve information retrieval performance. Compound terms should split through a factoring process to move toward construction of simple concepts. This research article operated Factoring Ratio to analyze the structu...

This article looks at the logical relationships between the categories that have led to the development of the thesaurus, including the historical origins of thesaurus construction. The research uses the dialectical, logical relationships of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Each step in the dialectic of thesaurus creation includes subjective and...

Several thesauri have been developed in the field of Islamic sciences since 1991 for the sake of vocabulary control to organize the related documents. These thesauri played a great role in documentation to develop specific databases in this scientific filed. However, this process prepared independent islands which were not related to one another. H...

The research purpose was qualitative evaluation of the Chemistry and Persian Cultural Thesaurus (ASFA) based on the related indicators to analyze the context of the thesauri. The research methodology was content analysis and sampling method is stratified random sampling. The sample size of chemistry thesaurus was equal to 181 pages, 1574 descriptor...

The research focused on analyzing the equivalence between descriptors and non-descriptors to identify the entries enrichment in thesauri. For the sake of this purpose, the research operated Equivalence Ration (EQR) as a statistical method. The indicators of ratio are the total number of non-descriptors and the total number of descriptors. The best...

Semantic network demonstrates the domain of scientific field in the form of a pyramid. This pyramid comprises of various semantic relations such as hierarchical and associative relations. This research relied on analyzing the connectedness concept in semantic network to identify the domain of hierarchical and associative relations via statistical a...

Associative relations are the most important semantic relations in semantic network of thesauri. The most important role of associative relations is the linkage between concepts, which have not involved in hierarchical relations, in the same categories or different categories. Associative relations in thesauri are a kind of the syntagmatic lexical...

The research studied quantitative and qualitative evaluation in Persian thesaurus. The research goal is qualitative evaluation of content and structure of the Persian thesaurus and quantitative evaluation of descriptors’ structure and semantic network in the Persian thesaurus. The research methodology relied on content analysis method for quantitat...

In designing the National Document Management System of the Ministry of Agriculture Jihad, We attempted to focus on the first stage of the project, which is to organize the printed documents of materials. This stage relied on the knowledge management approach. It is noteworthy that in the second and third stages, the management of non-print documen...

In analyzing the status of agricultural information in the Ministry of Agricultural Jahad, four main flows of information sciences were identified: statistical information, scientific information, extensional information and news information. The results showed that there was no complete relationship between the aforementioned information flows for...

There are the great numbers of documents in the field of Iranian traditional medical sciences in library and document center of Iran. These documents should be organized through the indexing process and documentation. Thesaurus is a main tool to organize these documents regarding vocabulary control. Furthermore, the Iranian ontological and epistemi...

The article focused on structural analysis of semantic relations in the semantic network of CAB thesaurus through Excel analysis. SUM and Count are the method of the statistical analysis in Excel software which was adapted to measure the domain of semantic relations such as Broader Terms (BT), Narrower Terms (NT), Related Terms (RT) and Use for (UF...

Agriculture Information System of Iran (AISI) is a system including the features of each system. The features are input proceeding unit, output and feedback. This system is not an organization; rather play a role to move toward integration and unity between the stakeholders and related material for the sake of developing extension in agricultural s...

For the sake of fulfilling agricultural knowledge management and developing agricultural development optimum strategies of Iran in 2005 in Agricultural Jahad Think Thank, the necessity of knowledge management of human resources were realize to develop the executive policy of the development strategies in agricultural sector of Iran. Hence, a projec...

The results of studies and background researches on agricultural information system, the context of information system development and the analysis of knowledge management methodology showed that to produce the systematize and organized information and knowledge as well as to create a macro cycle of data, information and knowledge in the Ministry o...

This research evaluated the effective factors in evaluating the structure of CAB thesaurus. The effective factors in qualitative evaluation are closely related to physical aspects, contextual area, structural domains and the maintenance affairs of the thesaurus as well as the quantitative evaluation attempted to analyze the structure of descriptors...

National Agricultural Information System of Iran (NAISI) was the main project which had taken into account in the special sessions of National Knowledge Management System (NGO). The main element to proposed AISI project was a comprehensive research background on the history and infrastructure of national information system in Iran and in the intern...

Integration and organizing agricultural information and knowledge are the main factors to improve the infrastructures of agricultural sector and achieve sustainable agricultural development. This integration has a capacity and capability to remove the gaps between research, education and extension as well as executive sections through establishing...

Abstract: This project discussed the issue of unity in the establishment of an agricultural information system regarding the organization and development of scientific information which are derived from Agricultural Research and Training projects. The scientific or research results in the field of agriculture, generally produce in Agricultural Rese...

Integration and organizing agricultural information and knowledge are the main factors to improve the infrastructures of agricultural sector and achieve sustainable agricultural development. This integration has a capacity and capability to remove the gaps between research, education and extension as well as executive sections through establishing...