Dr. Detlev Doherr is Professor in Informatics and Geoinformatics of the University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, Germany, since 1990. He received the degrees of diploma and Dr. rer. nat. from the University of Göttingen, Germany in 1983. After an employment at the German Rock salt and Potash industry, where he developed a Geographical Information System for mining and exploration together with IBM, he serves as Professor in Offenburg beginning in 1990. In 1992 he founded the Steinbeis-Transfer Center of Information Technology in Offenburg, which is part of the German Steinbeis- Stiftung. Since 2001 he is working in the fields of digital libraries, Internet portals and virtual environments. He has more than 20 years experiences in developing of Internet based information systems combined with knowledge bases and artificial intelligence. His current interests include knowledge based computing, information technology, and history of natural sciences.
Alexander von Humboldt, the German scientist and discoverer of nature, is regarded as the pioneer of ecology, which he described as the interrelationship of the animated and inanimated world as dynamic processes. He contributed to a scientific worldview and defined the basis for the concept of sustainability and sustainable developments. Even after 200 years Humboldt's writings are gaining increasing attention because of his efforts to comprehend nature within the context of interaction and dynamic processes. We accept the views of Alexander von Humboldt to discover the internal forces and the interconnectivity of nature as modern concepts of representative knowledge bases and semantic web structures. But we are stuck with the automatic evaluation of information and creation of digital knowledge by computers. We have got theoretical models and statistical approaches, analytical solutions and numerical results, but we cannot find resilient algorithms as solution finders for the global questions even in the scientific view of nature as one whole, where everything is interconnectedness!
