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  • Ontology authoring with Forza 
    Keet, CM; Khan, MT; Ghidini, C (2014-11)
    Generic, reusable ontology elements, such as a foundational ontology's categories and part-whole relations, are essential for good and interoperable knowledge representation. Ontology developers, which include domain experts ...
  • An ontology for regulating eHealth interoperability in developing African countries 
    Moodley, D; Seebregts, CJ; Pillay, AW; Meyer, T (Springer link, 2013-08)
    eHealth governance and regulation are necessary in low resource African countries to ensure effective and equitable use of health information technology and to realize national eHealth goals such as interoperability, ...
  • Ontology learning from interpretations in lightweight description logics 
    Klarman, S; Britz, K (25th International Conference On Inductive Logic Programming, 2015-08)
    Data-driven elicitation of ontologies from structured data is a well-recognized knowledge acquisition bottleneck. The development of efficient techniques for (semi-)automating this task is therefore practically vital - ...
  • Open Access and citation count: a CSIR case study 
    Ramorulane, Dave (2012-06)
    Open Access (OA) refers to electronic scholarly articles, books, monographs and other grey literature that is freely available. Various electronic platforms limit access to their content due to subscription costs, firewalls, ...
  • Open hardware: a role to play in wireless sensor networks? 
    Fisher, R; Ledwaba, Lehlogonolo; Hancke, G; Kruger, Carel (MDPI, 2015-03)
    The concept of the Internet of Things is rapidly becoming a reality, with many applications being deployed within industrial and consumer sectors. At the ‘thing’ level—devices and inter-device network communication—the ...
  • Open middleware for robotics 
    Namoshe, M; Tlale, NS; Kumile, CM; Bright, G (Massey University, 2008-12)
    Despite advances in recent years, autonomous multi-robot systems remain classed as complex systems, because control and coordination of these systems remain a challenging task. Autonomous mobile robot houses heterogeneous ...
  • Open source community organization 
    Molefe, Onkgopotse M; Fogwill, TA (Information Society Technologies (IST), 2009-05)
    Open Source communities (OSCs), sometimes referred to as virtual or online communities play a significant role in terms of the contribution they continue to make in producing user-friendly Open Source Software (OSS) ...
  • Open source software migration: Best practices 
    Molefe, Onkgopotse M; Fogwill, T; Gerber, A; van der Merwe, A (CSIR, 2010-09-01)
    Open source software (OSS) has gained prominence worldwide, largely due to cost savings and security considerations. This has caused a change in the IT sector and has led to the migration of desktops from proprietary to ...
  • Open standard building in South Africa: new concepts, strategies and technologies 
    Van Wyk, Llewellyn V (2008-03)
    The notion of “open building” arose out of a counter movement within the Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM) to the promotion of modern mass housing theories in post-First World War Europe. The opponents ...
  • OpenNebula KVM SR-IOV driver 
    Macleod, D (Apache Software Foundation, 2013-05)
    With the recent release of an OFED which supports SR-IOV on Infiniband HCAs it is now possible to use verbs from inside a VM. This VMM driver supports these Infiniband HCAs, and any other SR-IOV network device, in OpenNebula.
  • Openphone user engagement and requirements solicitation in low literacy users 
    Ndwe, J; Barnard, E; Dlodlo, M; Mashao, D; Kuun, C; Sharma, A (Springer, 2008-09)
    The OpenPhone project aims to design an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) health information system that enables people who are caregivers for HIV/AIDS infected children to access relevant information by using a telephone ...
  • Operating cost analysis of an annexed ethanol distillery in a rural, landlocked African country 
    Amigun, B; Von Blottnitz, H (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-10)
    Given the high cost of crude oil, uncertainties regarding future reserves as well as the phenomenon of global warming, alternative fuels such as bioethanol need to be developed and deployed. This work presents an economic ...
  • An operational framework for equity in the 2015 agreement 
    Ngwadla, Xolisa (Taylor & Francis, 2014)
    Equity is a highly contentious but essential area of negotiation, if a stable and effective international climate agreement with broad participation is to be achieved. Three perspectives on the magnitude dimensions of ...
  • Operational policy for disposal of land-derived wastewater to the marine environment of South Africa 
    Taljaard, Susan; Botes, WAM; Oelofse, Suzanna HH; Viljoen, P (Water Research Commission, 2006-10)
    In 1998, South Africa’s National Water Act (Act 36 of 1998) was promulgated to give legal status to the White Paper on a National Water Policy (April 1997) and the Department of Water Affairs’ (DWAF) water quality management ...
  • Operational safety of urine diversion toilets in Durban, South Africa 
    Austin, LM (2006)
    There are approximately 50,000 urine diversion (UD) toilets in South Africa. Emptying the vaults implies that the faecal material must be handled, usually with spades or rakes. Should the material be used for agricultural ...
  • Operational seasonal forecast system development in South Africa 
    Landman, WA; Beraki, A (ICTP, 2011-09)
    The development of operational seasonal prediction as a science in South Africa is explained, as well as the current forecast systems and how they may further evolve.
  • "Operationalizing C2 agility”. Coping with complexity in command and control 
    Oosthuizen, R; Roodt, JHS (2012-06)
    Combat presents a complex system that requires effective management to ensure successful completion of missions. Management of own forces and other assets in the pursuit of mission objectives is performed by the Command ...
  • Operations research at CSIR - a brief history in cases 
    Ittmann, HW; Van Dyk, FE; Meyer, IA; Janse Van Rensburg, SJ (Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA), 2007)
    Apart from work in the mining industry during the 1950s, the first real Operations Research (OR) group in South Africa was established at CSIR in the early 1960s. Those initially involved in this group played a significant ...
  • The Operations Research Society of South Africa 
    Ittmann, HW; Sarma Yadavalli, VS (Wiley, 2010-06)
    The history and current activities of the Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA) is presented in this chapter
  • Opportunities and challenges for mainstreaming ecosystem services in development planning: perspectives from a landscape level 
    Sitas, Nadia E; Prozesky, HE; Esler, KJ; Reyers, B (Springer, 2014-10)
    Despite much progress in ecosystem services research, a gap still appears to exist between this research and the implementation of landscape management and development activities on the ground, especially within a developing ...