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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453268603321

Autore

García Castro Raúl

Titolo

Benchmarking semantic web technology / / Raúl García Castro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Heidelberg, Germany : , : IOS Press : , : AKA, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-61499-337-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

Studies on the Semantic Web, , 1868-1158 ; ; Volume 003

Disciplina

025.04

Soggetti

Semantic Web

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Context; The Semantic Web; Brief introduction to Semantic Web technologies; Semantic Web technology evaluation; The need for benchmarking in the Semantic Web; Semantic Web technology interoperability; Heterogeneity in ontology representation; The interoperability problem; Categorising ontology differences; Thesis contributions; Thesis structure; State of the Art; Software evaluation; Benchmarking; Benchmarking vs evaluation; Benchmarking classifications; Evaluation and improvement methodologies; Benchmarking methodologies

Software Measurement methodologiesExperimental Software Engineering methodologies; Benchmark suites; Previous interoperability evaluations; Conclusions; Work objectives; Thesis goals and open research problems; Contributions to the state of the art; Work assumptions, hypothesis and restrictions; Benchmarking methodology for Semantic Web technologies; Design principles; Research methodology; Selection of relevant processes; Identification of the main tasks; Task adaption and completion; Analysis of task dependencies; Benchmarking methodology; Benchmarking actors; Benchmarking process

Plan phaseExperiment phase; Improvement phase; Recalibration task; Organizing the benchmarking activities; Plan phase; Experiment phase; RDF(S) Interoperability Benchmarking; Experiment definition; RDF(S) Import Benchmark Suite; RDF(S) Export Benchmark Suite; RDF(S)



Interoperability Benchmark Suite; Experiment execution; Experiments performed; Experiment automation; RDF(S) import results; KAON RDF(S) import results; Protege-Frames RDF(S) import results; WebODE RDF(S) import results; Corese, Jena and Sesame RDF(S) import results; Evolution of RDF(S) import results; Global RDF(S) import results

RDF(S) export resultsKAON RDF(S) export results; Protege-Frames RDF(S) export results; WebODE RDF(S) export results; Corese, Jena and Sesame RDF(S) export results; Evolution of RDF(S) export results; Global RDF(S) export results; RDF(S) interoperability results; KAON interoperability results; Protege-Frames interoperability results; WebODE interoperability results; Global RDF(S) interoperability results; OWL Interoperability Benchmarking; Experiment definition; The OWL Lite Import Benchmark Suite; Benchmarks that depend on the knowledge model; Benchmarks that depend on the syntax

Description of the benchmarksTowards benchmark suites for OWL DL and Full; Experiment execution: the IBSE tool; IBSE requirements; IBSE implementation; Using IBSE; OWL compliance results; GATE OWL compliance results; Jena OWL compliance results; KAON2 OWL compliance results; Protege-Frames OWL compliance results; Protege-OWL OWL compliance results; SemTalk OWL compliance results; SWI-Prolog OWL compliance results; WebODE OWL compliance results; Global OWL compliance results; OWL interoperability results; OWL interoperability results per tool; Global OWL interoperability results

Evolution of OWL interoperability results

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses the problem of benchmarking Semantic Web Technologies; first, from a methodological point of view, proposing a general methodology to follow in benchmarking activities over Semantic Web Technologies and, second, from a practical point of view, presenting two international benchmarking activities that involved benchmarking the interoperability of Semantic Web technologies using RDF(S) as the interchange language in one activity and OWL in the other.The book presents in detail how the different resources needed for these interoperability benchmarking activities were defined:



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910764196803321

Titolo

The political economy of food system transformation : pathways to progress in a polarized world / / edited by Danielle Resnick and Johan Swinnen [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-199126-0

0-19-888224-6

0-19-888223-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (461 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

338.19

Soggetti

Food supply - Political aspects

Food supply - Economic aspects

Farming and Country Life

Industry & industrial studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2023.

At foot of title: International Food Policy Research Institute.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Political Economy of Food System Transformation -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Complexities Underlying Food System Transformation -- 1.3 Political Economy Drivers of Policy Choices -- 1.4 Summary of the Book -- 1.5 Conclusions -- References -- 2. Facts, Interests, and Values: Identifying Points of Convergence and Divergence for Food Systems -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Facts -- 2.3 Interests -- 2.4 Values -- 2.5 Interests versus Values -- 2.6 Policy Controversies -- 2.7 Conclusion -- References -- 3. The Political Economy of Reforming Agricultural Support Policies -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Current Agricultural Support and Its Impacts -- 3.3 Political Economy Framework for Reform -- 3.4 Case Studies of Agricultural Support Policy Reforms -- 3.5 Conclusions -- References -- 4. From Re-instrumenting to Re-purposing Farm Support Policies -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Evolving Objectives of Agrifood Policy Instrument



Choices -- 4.3 Basic Welfare Economics of Agrifood Policy Instruments -- 4.4 Contributions of Various Policy Instruments to National Producer and Consumer Support Estimates -- 4.5 Contributors to the Global Costs of Present Forms of Support to Agriculture -- 4.6 How Best to Re-purpose Current Agrifood Policies -- 4.7 Conclusion -- References -- 5. Policy Coalitions in Food Systems Transformation -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Policy Coalitions and Effectiveness of Collective Action -- 5.3 Vertical Policy Coalitions Along the Value Chains -- 5.4 Cross-Issue Coalitions -- 5.5 Globalization and Transnational Coalitions -- 5.6 Conclusions -- References.

6. Government Response to Ultra-Processed and Sugar Beverages Industries in Developing Nations: The Need to Build Coalitions across Policy Sectors -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Politics of Policy of the Food Sector: Multiple Streams Analysis and Future Insights -- 6.3 Contrasting Global Attention and Support for NCD Policies -- 6.4 Conclusion -- References -- 7. Ultra-Processed Food Environments: Aligning Policy Beliefs from the State, Market, and Civil Society -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Research Methods -- 7.3 Identification of Policy Discourse Coalitions -- 7.4 Discussion -- 7.5 Conclusion -- References -- 8. Asymmetric Power in Global Food System Advocacy -- 8.1 Contrasting Food Policy Objectives -- 8.2 Combining Theories of Public Policy -- 8.3 Evolving Ideas in the International Nutrition Space -- 8.4 Bringing the Global to the Local -- 8.5 Conclusion -- References -- 9. The Political Economy of Bundling Socio-Technical Innovations to Transform Agri-Food Systems -- 9.1 The Imperative and Challenge of Agri-Food Systems Transformation -- 9.2 Why Socio-Technical Bundles? -- 9.3 Building Coalitions for Bundling: Insights from the Kaldor-Hicks Compensation Principle -- 9.4 The Roles of Institutions, Power, Information, and Trust -- 9.5 Some Empirical Illustrations -- 9.6 Conclusion -- References -- 10. Sustainable Food and Farming: When Public Perceptions Depart from Science -- 10.1 The Political Economy of Science Acceptance in Farming -- 10.2 Defining Sustainable Food -- 10.3 Case 1: "Green Revolution" Farming -- 10.4 Case 2: Industrial Farming -- 10.5 Case 3: Organic Food -- 10.6 Case 4: Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOS) -- 10.7 When Will Popular Resistance Block Uptake? -- 10.8 Will CRISPR Crops Become GMO 2.0? -- 10.9 Conclusion: Even Unpopular Science Reaches Farmers, Most of the Time -- References.

11. Enabling Positive Tipping Points in Public Support for Food System Transformation: The Case of Meat Consumption -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Existing Literature on Public Opinion on Sustainable Food Policy -- 11.3 Theoretical Argument -- 11.4 Methods Used in Survey-Embedded Experiments -- 11.5 Results -- 11.6 Combined Framing and Policy Design Effects -- 11.7 Discussion and Research Outlook -- 11.8 Conclusion -- References -- 12. Urban Food Systems Governance in Africa: Toward a Realistic Model for Transformation -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Governance of African Urban Systems and Food Systems -- 12.3 Food Governance in African Cities -- 12.4 Disrupting Food and Urban Governance-Misalignment in Global Processes -- 12.5 Emerging Global Urban Food Governance Processes -- 12.6 Combining Authorizing and Activating Environments -- 12.7 Conclusion -- References -- 13. The Political Economy of Food System Transformation in the European Union -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Food Systems Transition in the EU-State of Play -- 13.3 Political Economy Explanations for Change (or the Lack of It) -- 13.4 Opportunities to Catalyze the Transition -- References -- 14. Tracking Progress and Generating Accountability for Global Food System Commitments -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 The Need for



Transformation, Commitments, and Accountability -- 14.3 Prior Work on Food Systems Accountability and Monitoring -- 14.4 Gaps in Food Systems Monitoring Work -- 14.5 Efforts to Fill These Gaps -- 14.6 Moving from Data and Information to Accountability -- 14.7 Conclusion -- References -- 15. Conclusions -- 15.1 Reconciling Trade-Offs Generated by Different Incentive Structures -- 15.2 Mixed Modes of Mobilization -- 15.3 Addressing Divergent Coalition Preferences through Strategic Policy Design -- 15.4 Policy Adaptation and Implementation.

15.5 Conclusions, Limitations, and Ways Forward -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume analyses the political economy dynamics of food system transformation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Drawing on empirical data from a wide range of countries, the book touches on issues as varied as repurposing agricultural subsidies, biotechnology innovations, red meat consumption, and sugar-sweetened beverage taxes.