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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Russ, Aaron"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Ambient Information Systems – Do They Open a New Quality of IS?
    (SIGSAND-EUROPE 2008: Proceedings of the Third AIS SIGSAND European Symposium on Analysis, Design, Use and Societal Impact of Information Systems, 2008) Russ, Aaron; Hesse, Wolfgang; Müller, Dirk
    Information Systems (IS) have influenced and changed our lives in the past 50 years more than anything else – be it in the professional, be it in the private sector. Three main qualities have leveraged IS to this extraordinary position: persistence (supporting and extending human memories), individual availability and distribution – now world-wide through the internet and innumerable web- based applications and services. At the beginning 21st century, new technical prospects are opening new dimensions for IS: Due to the progressive miniaturisation of hardware components, next IS generations are mobile and pervasive, do no longer reside in computer mainframes and workstations but are clusters of “intelligence” which can be implanted almost everywhere and have thus been termed ambient or ubiquitous. In this article, we will briefly review the concept and history of IS and try to define what Ambient Information Systems (AIS) might be and which role they might play in a future Information Society. In particular, we shall deal with the phenomena of information and ambience, investigate their semiotic dimensions – and raise the question whether and how far human qualities like intelligence, intention, etc. can be attributed to impersonal, highly heterogeneous and maybe abstract systems. If we are going to embed ourselves in ambient systems, if we grant these to deal with information (instead of data) and to act intelligently, this might profoundly influence our image of man – in particular as qualities like autonomy, privacy or self-esteem are concerned.
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    MeBIT – an interdisciplinary project on "information" metaphors and their impact on the idea of man
    (SIGSAND-EUROPE 2008: Proceedings of the Third AIS SIGSAND European Symposium on Analysis, Design, Use and Societal Impact of Information Systems, 2008) Bölker, Michael; Engel, Thomas; Gutmann, Mathias; Henckel, Ulrike; Hesse, Wolfgang; Müller, Dirk; Rathgeber, Benjamin; Russ, Aaron; Syed, Tareq
    MebIT is an interdisciplinary project granted by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). Its focus of research concerns the logical interconnections and relationships which combine the Informatics, Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) fields with other scientific branches – in particular biology/genetics and philosophy – and which are established through the extensive use of metaphors form these fields (like information, programming, code, replication, etc.). The technical endowment of almost all public domains by IT and IS might be accompanied by a mental shift – triggered and promoted by metaphoric language and might ultimately lead to the formation on new images of man. Our research group is composed of four subgroups, dealing with these questions from an information-theoretical, genetic, anthropological and technique-philosophical point of view. Some preliminary results of the joint work of these groups are demonstrated by three interconnected posters.
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    OBSE – an approach to Ontology-based Software Engineering in the practice
    (Enterprise modelling and information systems architectures – concepts and applications, 2007) Bachmann, Andrej; Hesse, Wolfgang; Russ, Aaron; Kop, Christian; Mayr, Heinrich C.; Vöhringer, Jürgen
    In this article we present a new approach to Ontology-based Software Engineering (OBSE) meant for practical use in enterprises and industrial projects. Following this approach, Software projects are no longer driven only by requirements and models but also by one or several ontology/ies covering their application domain. Our main thesis says that OBSE can offer similar opportunities and benefits for re-engineering and re-use in the early phases of software development as object orientation does for the later ones. OBSE is to be supported by tools which integrate ontologies in the SE process. A prototype of such a tool – based on the KCPM and EOS methodologies – is presently being developed in a joint project of our groups.