At 03:02 PM 6/19/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Dear Anna,
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>.............................I can hardly think of a qualitative
>methodology which would benefit very much from pure DBMS or even "word
>crunching" technology. As an example, the tasks related to Grounded Theory
>methodology cannot be modeled by data-base alike assignment of data segments
>to key words. Some higher level modeling of first-order codes (via semantic
>networks etc) should at least accompany such basic-level operations. And of
>course, there is much related to GT where computers wont help you a bit.
Thomas,
In this regard and acknowledging the limitations of RDBMS, I wonder if
you have considered incorporating a logic programming assistant within your
Atlas-TI framework, such as a Prolog engine? This might improve modeling
capabilities. Admittedly, it would demand additional learning on the part
of users, but having a solid means of doing inference within specific
models would be a powerful tool.
I use Beta Prolog pretty heavily in my work. There are a large assortment
of these implementations available from the 'Net, freeware, shareware, and
commercial where, naturally, the commercial ones tend to deal with large
sets of rules more gracefully. For more information, check out
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/logic-prog.html
http://www.cad.mse.kyutech.ac.jp/people/zhou/bprolog.html
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/prolog/0.
html
http://www.bookcase.com/library/faq/usenet/prolog/resource-guide/part1.html
http://www.bookcase.com/library/faq/usenet/prolog/resource-guide/part2.html
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Ciao,
-jt
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