An Intelligent Brokering Service for Knowledge-Component Reuse 
on the World-Wide Web

Esprit project number: 27169

Keywords: World-Wide Web brokering service, Knowledge-based Systems, Problem-solving methods, Ontologies

The second phase of IBROW continues with support from the IST program of the European Community.

Objectives and approach

The objective of IBROW3 is to develop intelligent brokers that are able to distributively configure reusable components into knowledge systems through the World-Wide Web. The WWW is changing the nature of software development to a distributive plug & play process, which requires a new kind of managing software: intelligent software brokers.

IBROW3 will integrate research on heterogeneous DB, interoperability and Web technology with knowledge-system technology and ontologies.

Results

The result of IBROW3 will be an intelligent broker that can handle web requests of customers for classes of knowledge systems (e.g. diagnostic systems) by accessing libraries of reusable problem-solving methods on the Web, and selecting, adapting and configuring these methods in accordance with the customer's problem and domain.

Some of the accessible results so far

Successful completion of IBROW3, which is endorsed by an industrial advisory committee, can have significant impact on European industry because it will help to lower the cost of applying knowledge-system technology, which will become available on a much larger scale. This is especially relevant for SME, which currently cannot afford such technology.
The techniques developed in the project can be directly applied to Intranets.

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Contact point

Richard Benjamins
ISLA/SWI
University of Amsterdam
Roetersstraat 15
1018 WB Amsterdam
the Netherlands
+31-20-5256784
+31-20-5256896
richard@swi.psy.uva.nl

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