Objective
The aim of IBROW3 is to develop an intelligent brokering service that enables third party knowledge-component reuse through the World-Wide Web. Suppliers provide libraries of knowledge components adhering to some standard, and customers can consult these libraries -through intelligent brokers- to configure a knowledge system suited to their needs by selection and adaptation. A customer in this context is a person/company that wants to solve a reasoning problem, such as the configuration of a technical product; a supplier could be a commercial or non-commercial provider of knowledge components that implement reasoning services.
On successful completion of the project, the following results can be expected.
- An intelligent web-broker that can handle web requests for PSM services. The broker is able to handle both the customer and the supplier side of the request. It will access libraries on the Internet, search for appropriate PSMs, verify their requirements, ask additional information to the customer if needed, adapt the PSMs to the particular domain knowledge and plug them together.
- A description language to characterise PSMs, which can be used by the knowledge-component providers -to indicate what kind of problems their software can solve (their competence) and what knowledge they require- and by the broker -to find and select candidate PSMs.
- Methodological guidelines for third parties that describe how to provide new libraries with reusable knowledge components (complying with the description language and the interoperability protocol), and how to develop intelligent brokers.
The World-Wide Web is changing the nature of software development to a distributive plug & play process. This requires a new way of managing software by so-called intelligent software brokers.
The knowledge components we want to reuse are problem-solving methods (PSMs). Today, many PSM repositories exist at different locations, but they are not accessible for outsiders nor are they compatible (interoperable). There are some proposals for standards for reuse in knowledge engineering, and there are emerging standards in interoperability. The approach of IBROW3 is to combine and elaborate both technologies to enable scaling up software reuse to a world-wide level, using the Internet. Thus, IBROW3's approach integrates research on heterogeneous databases, interoperability and Web technology with knowledge-system technology and ontologies.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences knowledge engineering ontology
- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software development
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Coordinator
1098SJ Amsterdam
Netherlands
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