Objective The UNITE project addresses the application of KBSs in industrial environments. Common characteristics of such applications are the evolution of information with time, incompleteness, unreliability and uncertainty, and the need for sophisticated numeric/symbolic interpretation mechanisms.Different techniques have been proposed for handling incompleteness, uncertainty or time-dependency, though many difficulties in terms of performance or complexity have been experienced in deploying them in industrial contexts with ad hoc adaptations or simplifications carried out by development teams to match industrial constraints. Furthermore, full-scale industrial applications generally require cooperation between specialised knowledge-based facilities for simulation, fault diagnosis, planning, scheduling, emergency decision-making, etc, and the integration of these facilities with other components such as databases or conventional software. Partial solutions exist for establishing cooperation between KBS and their integration into industrial environments, and UNITE aims to integrate these into a comprehensive set of techniques, methods and supporting tools. UNITE aims to produce: - techniques for the integration of appropriate knowledge model paradigms including incompleteness, uncertainty and time-dependency (internal integration) and for the cooperation between knowledge-based facilities (external integration) - a comprehensive development methodology based on state-of-the-art methods such as KADS - a platform to support the development and integration of embedded KBSs based on existing solutions such as those derived in the ACKNOWLEDGE (2576) project - pilot applications demonstrating the feasibility and applicability of the proposed solutions to complex real-life applications. UNITE is driven by industrial applications of strategic importance for Eritel and Matra Marconi Space: the management of intensive care units in hospitals, and space applications such as satellite assembly, integration and test environments, and future space control centres. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwarenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasesengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technologymedical and health sciencesclinical medicinecritical care medicinenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesknowledge engineering Programme(s) FP3-ESPRIT 3 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of information technologies, 1990-1994 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator Cap Gemini Innovation Address 86/90 rue thiers 92513 Boulogne-billancourt France See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ERITEL Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Paseo de la castellana, 141 28046 Madrid See on map ITMI France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 11 chemin des prés 38243 Meylan See on map MATRA MARCONI SPACE FRANCE SA France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 4 rue de presbourg 75116 Paris See on map Queen Mary and Westfield College United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Mile end road E1 4NS London See on map SINTEF DELAB Norway EU contribution € 0,00 Address O.s. bragstadsplass, 3 7034 Trondheim See on map