Sebastian Rudolph Bücher

Die Arbeit gibt einen Überblick über Potentiale und Grenzen von nationalem Pionierverhalten in der Umweltpolitik. In diesem Kontext spielt der Innovationswettbewerb eine tragende Rolle. In politischen Arenen wie der EU versuchen Nationalstaaten, ihre im EU-Vergleich strengeren Standards zu harmonisieren. Über diese regulativen Innovationen können Regierungen Vorreiterpositionen einnehmen und heimischen Unternehmen ökonomische Pioniervorteile verschaffen. Der Innovationswettbewerb ist zudem auch in Volkswirtschaften entwickelter Industrieländer zu beobachten. Unternehmen versuchen, Innovationsaktivitäten voranzutreiben, um somit ihre eigene Konkurrenzfähigkeit zu sichern. Die Arbeit ist in zwei Teile gegliedert. Zum einen liegt der Schwerpunkt auf der Analyse zentraler Theoriesträ Als Ergebnis werden Einflussfaktoren und Wirkungen von nationalem Pionierverhalten in der Umweltpolitik herausgefiltert. Zum anderen steht eine exemplarische Analyse des Fallbeispiels ,,Drei-Liter Auto in Deutschland" im Mittelpunkt. Von besonderem Interesse sind dabei sowohl das Wechselspiel von Politik und Technik in diesem Prozess als auch die beteiligten Akteure sowie deren Strategien und Ziele.

This volume contains the lecture notes of the 9th Reasoning Web Summer School 2013, held in Mannheim, Germany, in July/August 2013. The 2013 summer school program covered diverse aspects of Web reasoning, ranging from scalable lightweight formalisms such as RDF to more expressive ontology languages based on description logics. It also featured foundational reasoning techniques used in answer set programming and ontology-based data access as well as emerging topics like geo-spatial information handling and reasoning-driven information extraction and integration.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, RR 2011, held in Galway, Ireland in August 2011. The 13 revised full papers, 12 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers address all current topics in Semantic Web, interplay between classical reasoning approach with welll established web languages such as RDF and OWL, reasoning languages, querying and optimization and rules and ontologies.

KlappentextThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2009, which took place in Moscow, Russia, on July 26-31, 2009. The 18 papers presented together with 5 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from approximately 50 submissions. Originally centered around research on knowledge representation and reasoning with conceptual graphs, over the years ICCS has broadened its scope to include innovations from a wider range of theories and related practices, among them other forms of graph-based formalisms like RDF or existential graphs, formal concept analysis, semantic Web technologies, ontologies, concept mapping and more.

This work introduces Relational Exploration, a method for acquiring complete relational knowledge about a domain of interest by successively consulting a domain expert without ever asking redundant questions. This is achieved by combining Description Logics (DL) and Formal Concept Analysis (FCA): DL formalisms are used for defining FCA attributes while FCA exploration techniques are deployed to obtain or refine DL knowledge specifications.