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Data, information, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom (Ackoff 1989) drive the society, economy, and science. Data refers to a collection of symbols without any meaning beyond its existence. Information refers to a set of data which have been given a meaning by formulating relations between the data elements in a given context. Knowledge constitutes a collection of information with the intention of a certain kind of use. Understanding (or reasoning) refers to an analytic and cognitive process, which takes some knowledge as its input to infer new knowledge as its output by some kind of interpolation. In contrast to understanding, wisdom is an extrapolative and non-deterministic process to provide (i) understanding where there was no understanding before and (ii) a kind of knowledge which cannot be inferred solely by analytical means from available knowledge.

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  1. AVT-Process Systems Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 52056, Aachen, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Marquardt, Jan Morbach Dipl. Ing. & Andreas Wiesner Dipl. Ing.

  2. Fac. Engineering & Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, GU2 7XH, Guildford, UK

    Dr. Aidong Yang

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Marquardt, W., Morbach, J., Wiesner, A., Yang, A. (2010). Introduction. In: OntoCAPE. RWTHedition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04655-1_1

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