Biodiversity - increasing knowledge

Supporting knowledge discovery for biodiversity

A proposal for text mining as a support for knowledge discovery on biological descriptions is introduced. Our aim is both to sustain the curation of databases and to offer an alternative representation frame for accessing information in the biodiversity domain. We works on raw texts with minimum human intervention, applying natural language processing to integrate linguistic and domain knowledg...

Increasing participation in incentive programs for biodiversity conservation.

Engaging private landowners in conservation activities for imperiled species is critical to maintaining and enhancing biodiversity. Market-based approaches can incentivize conservation behaviors on private lands by shifting the benefit-cost ratio of engaging in activities that result in net conservation benefits for target species. In the United States and elsewhere, voluntary conservation agre...

Increasing Knowledge Capturing Efficiency by Enterprise Portals

Purpose: Collaborative ontology editing tools enable distributed user groups to build and maintain ontologies. Enterprises that use these tools to simply capture knowledge for a given ontological structure face the following problems: (i) isolated software solution requiring its own user management, (ii) the user interface often does not provide a look-and-feel that is familiar to its users, (i...

Increasing IPM Knowledge Through FFS in Benin

Increasing their Usefulness by Supporting Knowledge Capture

Organizations use various resources to achieve business objectives, and for financial gain. In modern business, knowledge is a critical resource, and organizations cannot afford not to manage it. Knowledge Management (KM) aims to support learning and to create value for the organization. Based on three levels of inquiry (why, what, how), work presented in this thesis includes a synthesized view...