Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics - BDEI - Towards an Operational Semantics of Biological Diversity: Integrating Structure and Function in a Web-accessible Knowledge Base

生物多样性和生态系统信息学 - BDEI - 迈向生物多样性的操作语义：在可通过网络访问的知识库中集成结构和功能

• 批准号: 0243962
• 负责人: Ferdinando Villa
• 金额: $ 5.48万
• 依托单位: University of Vermont & State Agricultural College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-01 至 2003-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0243962&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Biodiversity; Ecosystem; Informatics; BDEI; Towards

EIA-010931Villa, FerdinandoUniversity of Maryland Center for Environmental SciencesBDEI: Towards an Operational Semantics Diversity: Integrating StructureSummaryUnderstanding the dynamics of biological diversity requires new approaches andintegration between different disciplines. The development of a unitary body ofknowledge about biodiversity is made difficult by the fragmentation and lack ofinteroperability between the diverse - and often informal and simplistic - semanticsadopted for data and models. Different representational paradigms require conceptual, aswell as technical, integration to enable reorganizing the body of knowledge and enablenew ideas, theories, and higher-level paradigms to surface and be tested.Building on software and conceptual frameworks being developed at IEE/UMD, wepropose to develop and deploy a web-accessible database where temporally- andspatially- explicit biodiversity data will coexist with dynamic modular models,potentially integrating multiple modeling paradigms and automatically enforcing theircompatibility. The XML-based infrastructure used by the underlying software engine willenable us to store data and models (modules) adopting an extensible array ofrepresentations, and to link them together transparently and automatically. Theintegration will happen through explicit cross-cutting abstractions called domains, whichrepresent various aspects of the world (such as time or space) as seen by each module,and are processed by the simulation engine to resolve conflicts related to different scalesor representational paradigms.

EIA-010931VILLA，马里兰州环境科学中心的Ferdinandouniversity：迈向操作语义的多样性：整合结构毫无意义地了解生物多样性的动态，需要不同学科之间的新方法和整体化。关于生物多样性的统一知识的发展，由于分散性和缺乏可区分性的性能在多种多样的（通常是非正式和简单）的语义上，因此很难进行数据和模型。 Different representational paradigms require conceptual, aswell as technical, integration to enable reorganizing the body of knowledge and enablenew ideas, theories, and higher-level paradigms to surface and be tested.Building on software and conceptual frameworks being developed at IEE/UMD, wepropose to develop and deploy a web-accessible database where temporally- andspatially- explicit biodiversity data will coexist with动态模块模型，可能会整合多个建模范式并自动实现其兼容性。基于XML的基础架构由基础软件引擎使用，将我们可以存储采用可扩展的替代阵列的数据和模型（模块），并将它们透明地链接在一起。这些集成将通过称为域的明确交叉切割抽象来实现，这些抽象称为域，这些域（例如每个模块都看到的世界各个方面（例如时间或空间），并由模拟引擎处理以解决与不同尺度的代表性范式相关的冲突。