Papers:
Visualizing the shadows of Information
Martin Bertram, Sascha Köhn, Thies Bähr, Bertin Klein, Rolf van Lengen
Knowledge Management Department, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH, Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 57, D-67608 Kaiserslautern
Hering-Bertram@dfki.de s_koehn@informatik.uni-kl.de baehr@dfki.de
klein@dfki.de lengen @dfki.de
We propose 3D-visualization in order to facilitate the assimilation of computer- represented knowledge by human minds. Since human imagination and reasoning is based on 3D-shapes, the presentation and validation of knowledge is most efficiently per- formed with the aid of geometric shapes. We motivate the need for visualization in Knowledge Management applications supported by a case study modelling the ontology of a human heart. This work connects the areas of human knowledge (as philo-sophical ontology) and knowledge management (as AI ontology).
Theses 6
According to Plato knowledge serves a purpose which lies neither in recognizing nor in controlling but in the acquisition of the ability to do good.
Buzzwords
• finite human knowing and decision making
• unification and exploitation of knowledge and improvement of thinking
Theses 7
Knowledge is only in so far canonical as it is necessary for its self-expansion.It aims at the expansion of the competence, at the acquisition of dispositions for the enlargement of knowledge (Plato's education in arithmetic, geometry and dialectic).
Buzzwords
• Learning
• knowledge and Competences
• knowledge discovery
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