Arthur Schopenhauer. Seine Personlichkeit, seine Lehre, sein Glaube.

The ecological quality status of the Bay of Seine and the Seine estuary: use of biotic indices.

Using recent indices developed, in part, for use under the European Water Framework Directive (AMBI, BENTIX, BOPA, BQI, I2EC and the trophic index ITI), the ecological quality status of two highly contaminated environments--the Bay of Seine and the Seine estuary (Eastern English Channel)--was determined on several spatial and temporal scales. Data from 604 observations gathered over a 14-year p...

Beratungsdialog im WWW: Ein konversationales Modell und seine Implementierung

The paper deals with the development of advice-giving agents on the WWW. Based on work in the EU project VIP-Advisor, a general dialogue model was developed for advice sessions which formed the basis of the realisation of an advice-giving agent. Its dialogue capability was extended using case-based reasoning (CBR) methods such that the system was not only able to execute the intended dialogue p...

Der Asymmetrische Dominanzeffekt und seine Bedeutung für E-Tourismus-Plattformen

Atmospheric deposition of PAHs in the Seine Estuary, France

Atmospheric deposition of toxics onto the Seine Estuary, France: example of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons A. Motelay-Massei, D. Ollivon, B. Garban, and M. Chevreuil Laboratoire de Géologie Appliquée, UMR Sisyphe 7619, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu, case 122, 75252 Paris cedex 05, France Laboratoire Hydrologie et Environnement, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, UMR Sisyphe...

April in Paris: Signs of Artificial Life along the Seine

The idea of blending art into city life is not new and has been associated with technology from the start. Our paper will consider programmed, generative art works in the context of two art historical antecedents, the Futurists in the 1910s and the art movement Fluxus in the 1960s. We will focus on a selection of installations in the streets of Issy, France, during the “Festival Premier Contact...