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qKAI in Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

The International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems just posted its new issue (Volume2/Nr2&3). qKAI is part of it with a contribution titled “Utilizing Open Content for Higher-Layered Rich Client Applications” (pp. 303 – 316).

First, we introduce some background regarding the qKAI application framework. In Section 2 follows what we see as prerequisite to utilize Open Content for higher-layered applications. Section 3 gives an overview of the qKAI application frameworks’ system design. Section 4 offers some more details concerning the qKAI hybrid data layer as one system level of the 4-tier design. Section 5 shows further services and components, Section 6 exemplifies use cases and further application scenarios. At least this contribution ends up with a conclusion and future work in Section 7.

increasing productivity – part 2: Subversion

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

These days about every adept in software engineering knows what version control (VC) is: A tool to commit changes into remote repositories. It is seen as replacement for some sort of postal system, where the source code is literally sent to a superior or customer.

But there are more aspects to know about it, which I am going to write a about taking Subversion (SVN) as an example. One of it is lowering the barrier of committing code and enabling to maintain flow. (more…)

what languages qKAI is written in

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Today I’ve been asked by a fellow student what languages qKAI is written in. So I launched CLOC and, before presenting you the output, I must give the remark that the actual language usage might change drastically in future. But here is the graph: (more…)

Specification of information units

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Jan Hein finished his Master thesis at the end of 2008 with the topic: ‘Specification and implementation of information units for qualifying knowledge modelling’ (Thesis in German). Automated extraction of text chunks out of Wikipedia without loosing structure and context is next to semantic annotation the main focus of his work.

The specification of information units can be found here: http://qkai.org/spec/2008/10/

The Wikipedia Extractor prototype is available under http://qkai.org/WikipediaExtractor