Books

Four books and a translated booklet, in reverse chronological order of publication:

• Autonomous Decisions: computing quandaries in short fiction. KREST Publishers 2025. Delve into the moral quandaries and flagrant violations of fictionalised current cases and scenarios in information technology as well as past transgressions, explored in ten short stories situated in South Africa and elsewhere in the 21st century.
• The What and How of Modelling Information and Knowledge — From Mind Maps to Ontologies. Springer 2023. The main aim of this book is to introduce a group of models and modelling of information and knowledge comprehensibly.
• No taming of the enthusiast. A scenic route into computer science. Porcupine Press 2021. From skylarking at school to a professorship at the best university in Africa. It’s all here in this collection of loosely related memoir-essays: all the twists in the winding road the author travelled to become a female computer science professor at the University of Cape Town.
• An Introduction to Ontology Engineering. College Publications 2018. An award-winning textbook for a postgraduate course in ontology engineering.
• The Nonviolent Personality by Giuliano Pontara and translated and edited by Maria Keet. 2011. This booklet surveys some of these challenges and the characteristics that a mature culture of peace should have in order to respond to them. Particularly, it investigates what type of person is more apt to be a carrier of such a mature culture of peace: the nonviolent personality.

~~

Edited Books

If you search online bookstores, you’ll also come across several books I’ve edited. They are academic conference proceedings where I was one of the program committee chairs. The effort that takes is considerably less than authoring a whole book, unless one were to take into account all the work and results needed to be invited as a program committee chair.