Overview of Maria's writings
My writings are varied and have been published in various types of outlets. A brief overview can be found on this page, which mainly provides links to those other places, with the key items also in the menu on the left. There's also a dedicated author site that looks flashier and more 21st century-like than the plain HTML used on this site.
Books
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An Introduction to Ontology Engineering. A textbook at the honours/postgraduate level in computer science. Published by College Publications in 2025 (first edition in 2018). It won the 2021 UCT Open Textbook Award. Read the announcement of the award and a brief interview about the textbook in the UCT News. |
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Autonomous Decisions -- Computing quandaries in short fiction. Published by KREST Publishers, 2025. |
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The What and How of Modelling Information and Knowledge: From Mind Maps to Ontologies. Published by Springer, 2023. |
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No taming of the enthusiast -- a scenic route into computer science. A memoir. Published by: Porcupine Press, 2021. |
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The nonviolent personality by Giuliano Pontara. A translation from the Italian original into English. |
Articles
- Scientific articles: book chapters, journal articles, papers in conference and workshop proceedings (also books)
- Other articles that are more broadly accessible (or at least: have a less narrow intended audience than the scientific publications)
Fiction
- Short story: Melokuhle -- good things, published by East of the Web. (with background reading for the dedicated)
- Short story: The outer circle, published on East of the Web.
Other writings
There are also technical reports (in computer science)- My theses: the PhD thesis in computer science on granularity, BSc(hons) project in Computing and IT with the bacteriocin database, MSc in Food science free specialisation (in microbiology, the project at CIP with the sweet potatoes, in food microbiology, en in toegepaste filosofie), and the MA in Peace and Development Studies on terrorism toward peace negotiations.
- Blog posts on my blog
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