A way through the jungle

Paving a pathway through a terminological jungle

Owing to the need to organize information in nearly every discipline, KOSs with varying attributes, content and structures have been developed independently in different domains. These scattered and independent developments have given rise to a conglomeration of classificationrelated terms which tend to be used inconsistently in some research fields, and even more so across different research f...

Through the jungle of biological diversity.

Biological diversity would apparently seem the most intuitive and easily studied of all the ecological concepts. However, in practice biodiversity has suffered from great number of definitions that vary with the specific needs of the different researchers, thus making it extremely confusing as an ecological concept. In this paper, I shortly review the concept of biodiversity showing that there ...

Matchete: Paths through the Pattern Matching Jungle

Pattern matching is a programming language feature for selecting a handler based on the structure of data while binding names to sub-structures. By combining selection and binding, pattern matching facilitates many common tasks such as date normalization, red-black tree manipulation, conversion of XML documents, or decoding TCP/IP packets. Matchete is a language extension to Java that unifies d...

A Guided Tour through the Data Mining Jungle

An important success factor for the eld of KDD lies in the development and integration of methods for supporting the construction and execution of KDD processes. Crucial aspects in this context are the (incremental) development of a precise problem description, a decomposition of this top level problem description into manageable and compatible subtasks which can be reused, and a selection and ...

The Way through Empowerment of Medical Toxicology in Bangladesh