Abstract:
Wine making is a domain where formalization is very difficult, mainly
because one has to deal with a huge number of heterogeneous pieces of knowledge
that intervene at different steps of the wine-making process. We address
the problem of stops in the alcoholic fermentation. This step of the wine-making
process is strongly correlated with knowledge of the events that occur
at previous steps. This knowledge of the previous steps intervenes in the
wine-making process as contextual knowledge. In this paper, we present
the results of our modeling of contextual knowledge and the design of a
context-based system. In our application, we use the onion metaphor to
model contextual knowledge. The problem to solve is the heart, and contextual
knowledge is organized in layers around the heart in an order that relies
on a qualitative distance.
In: Proceedings of the International and Interdisciplinary Conference
on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT-97), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February
4-6, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Ed., pp. 351-362.
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