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and we assign a weight of 1. No cause-eect relationship corresponds to a weight

of zero.

Well-established techniques exist for characterizing functional topics with

only a few requirements (Herzwurm et al. 1997; Saati et al. 1981). By choosing

comprehensive requirements for functional topic G, you can keep the number

of requirements low for that functional topic, and thus describe the relationship

between topics by just a few characteristic requirements on both the input and the

output side.

4.4.3.3 Topic Profiles—Measuring Knowledge

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