In heutigen Zeiten, wo automatisierte intelligente Applikationen aus unserem Leben kaum noch wegzudenken sind, ist es von entscheidender Bedeutung, dass die solchen Systemen zugrunde liegenden Wissensbasen hohen Qualitätsanforderungen gerecht werden. Als Kurzbeschreibung der gleichnamigen Dissertation motiviert dieser Beitrag den Einsatz von interaktivem Debugging von Wissensbasen durch das Auf...

Der Asynchrone Transfermodus (ATM) beginnt sich mehr und mehr als wichtige Netzwerktechnologie sowohl in privaten als auch öffentlichen Netzen durchzusetzen. Es besteht aber immer noch ein großer Mangel an Erfahrung mit Implementierungen leistungsfähiger, an das ATM-Umfeld angepaßter Protokolle auf unterschiedlichen Implementierungsplattformen. Wichtig ist hierbei, daß der Nutzen neuartiger Pro...

Der wachsende Anteil erneuerbarer Energien und die fortschreitende Liberalisierung des Strommarktes erfordern einen zukunftsweisenden Ausbau bestehender Energienetztopologien. So müssen zukünftige Energienetze dynamisch und automatisiert auf Schwankungen im Energieangebot und der Energienachfrage reagieren können. Dafür bedarf es einer Weiterentwicklung von Energienetzen zu sogenannten „Smart G...

The seroreactivity of a cocktail of purified mycobacterial excretory–secretory (ES) antigens ES-31, ES-41 and ES43 was assessed by ELISA and immunoblotting in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. The ES-31 antigen was isolated by affinity chromatography and ES-41 and ES-43 were isolated by fast protein liquid chromatography from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra culture filtrate. Seven of 27 pu...

The United States adopted a flat-rate 7 percent investment tax credit in the Revenue Act of 1962 to induce higher rates of new capital investment. The underlying purposes were to stimulate the economy and increase its rate of growth in real terms, to reduce unemployment and to make American industry more competitive with foreign firms. Although enacted as a "permanent" credit, certain changes w...

This paper describes an intelligent system which detects the location of troubles in a local telephone cable network. Such a task is very challenging, tedious, and requires human experts with years of experience and high analytical skills. Our system captures the expertise and knowledge required for this task, along with automated access to database systems, so that the system can help a human ...

The impact of enterprise systems (ES) on organisational agility (OA) is an under-researched area. Given the trends that most large organisations are moving towards ES and investing heavily on ES infrastructure and the increasing demand for agility, lack of research on ES and OA is a critical oversight. Using insights from the resource based view and dynamic capability theories; this paper argue...

In this paper we describe the problems encountered in building a semantic model that supports both nondeterministic choice and probabilistic choice. Several models exist that support both of these constructs, but none that we know of satis es all the laws one would like. Using domain-theoretic techniques, we show how a model can be devised \on top of" certain models for probabilistic choice, so...

We describe SimpleNLG-ES, an adaptation of the SimpleNLG realization library for the Spanish language. Our implementation is based on the bilingual English-French SimpleNLG-EnFr adaptation. The library has been tested using a battery of examples that ensure that the most common syntax, morphology and orthography rules for Spanish are met. The library is currently being used in three different p...