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Creation and merging of ontology top-levels
(2003)
We provide a new method for systematically structuring the top-down level of ontologies. It is based on an interactive, top-down knowledge acquisition process, which assures that the knowledge engineer considers all possible cases while avoiding redundant acquisition. The method is suited especially for creating/merging the top part(s) of the ontologies, where high accuracy is required, and for supporting the merging of two (or more) ontologies on that level.
Teil eines Buches
Erkenntnis im Gespräch
(Walter de Gruyter, 2003)
Bewährtes zu wissen und dieses Wissen gleichzeitig offen zu halten für neue Erfahrungen: diese denkerische Kunst ist prägend für das Ijobbuch. Ijob fordert in einer außergewöhnlichen Lebenssituation von seinen Freunden ein, ihr bewährtes Wissen neu zu überdenken und auf seine Situation hin zu befragen. Es ist diese Forderung, an der die Freunde letztlich scheitern. Denn die Korrespondenz von überliefertem Wissen und seinen Paradigmen mit konkreter Erfahrung ist keine Selbstverständlichkeit, auch wenn das „enge ...
Aufsatz
Vegetation changes in a river oasis on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in China between 1956 and 2000
(2003-11-26)
The indigenous vegetation surrounding the river oases on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert has drastically diminished due to overexploitation as a source of fodder, timber and fuel for the human population. The change in the spatial extent of landscape forms and vegetation types around the Qira oasis was analyzed by comparing SPOT satellite images from 1998 with aerial photographs from 1956. The analysis was supplemented by field surveys in 1999 and 2000. The study is part of a joint Chinese-European project ...
Aufsatz
Effects of manure quality and application forms on soil C and N turnover of a subtropical oasis soil under laboratory conditions
(2003)
Our knowledge of the agricultural sustainability of the millennia-old mountain oases in northern Oman is restricted in particular with respect to C and N turnover. A laboratory study was conducted (1) to analyse the effects of rewetting and drying on soil microorganisms after adding different manures, (2) to investigate the effects of mulching or incorporating of these manures, and (3) to evaluate the relationships between C and N mineralisation rates and manure quality indices. During the first 9-day rewetting and ...
Aufsatz
Phosphorus placement an acid arenosols of the West African Sahel
(2003)
Phosphorus (P) deficiency is a major constraint to pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.) growth on acid sandy soils of the West African Sahel. To develop cost-effective fertilization strategies for cash poor farmers, experiments with pearl millet were conducted in southwestern Niger. Treatments comprised single superphosphate hill-placed at rates of 1, 3, 5 or 7 kg P ha^−1 factorially combined with broadcast P at a rate of 13 kg ha^−1. Nitrogen was applied as calcium ammonium nitrate at rates of 30 and 45 kg ha^−1. ...
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The Courseware Watchdog: an ontology-based tool for finding and organizing learning material
(2003)
Topics in education are changing with an ever faster pace. E-Learning resources tend to be more and more decentralised. Users need increasingly to be able to use the resources of the web. For this, they should have tools for finding and organizing information in a decentral way. In this, paper, we show how an ontology-based tool suite allows to make the most of the resources available on the web.
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Off to new shores
(2003)
In the last years, the main orientation of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) has turned from mathematics towards computer science. This article provides a review of this new orientation and analyzes why and how FCA and computer science attracted each other. It discusses FCA as a knowledge representation formalism using five knowledge representation principles provided by Davis, Shrobe, and Szolovits [DSS93]. It then studies how and why mathematics-based researchers got attracted by computer science. We will argue for ...
Zeitschrift
Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, Heft 1, Jg. 104
(kassel university press, 2003)
Zeitschrift
Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, Heft 2, Jg. 104
(kassel university press, 2003)