THE ELECTRONIC ENCAPSULATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN HYDRAULICS, HYDROLOGY AND WATER-RESOURCES

被引:30
作者
ABBOTT, MB
机构
[1] International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, 2601 DA Delft
关键词
ECOLOGY; EPISTEMOLOGY; HYDROINFORMATICS; HYDROLOGY; KNOWLEDGE; SEMIOTICS; WATER RESOURCES;
D O I
10.1016/0309-1708(93)90027-D
中图分类号
TV21 [水资源调查与水利规划];
学科分类号
081501 ;
摘要
The rapidly developing practice of encapsulating knowledge in electronic media is shown to lead necessarily to the restructuring of the knowledge itself. The consequences of this for hydraulics, hydrology and more general water-resources management are investigated in particular relation to current process-simulation, real-time control and advice-serving systems. The generic properties of the electronic knowledge encapsulator are described, and attention is drawn to the manner in which knowledge 'goes into hiding' through encapsulation. This property is traced in the simple situations of pure mathesis and in the more complex situations of taxinomia using one example each from hydraulics and hydrology. The consequences for systems architectures are explained, pointing to the need for multi-agent architectures for ecological modelling and for more general hydroinformatics systems also. The relevance of these developments is indicated by reference to ongoing projects in which they are currently being realised. In conclusion, some more general epistemological aspects are considered within the same context. As this contribution is so much concerned with the processes of signification and communication, it has been partly shaped by the theory of semiotics, as popularised by Eco (A Theory of Semiotics, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1977).
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页数:19
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