OntoManager: A Workbench Environment to facilitate Ontology Management and Interoperability (2009)
Adil Hameed, Derek Sleeman, Alun Preece
Abstract. The prime motivation for our research is to enable sharing and reuse of domain knowledge through the engineering and management of ontologies. We contend that there is a need to reconcile...
An Ontology-Centric Approach to Sensor-Mission Assignment (2009)
Mario Gomez, Alun Preece, Matthew P. Johnson, Geeth De Mel, Christopher Gibson, Amotz Bar-noy, ...
Abstract. Sensor-mission assignment involves the allocation of sensor and other information-providing resources to missions in order to cover the information needs of the individual tasks in each...
Semantic Web Reasoning using a Blackboard System (2009)
Craig Mckenzie, Alun Preece, Peter Gray
Abstract. In this paper, we discuss the need for a hybrid reasoning approach to handing Semantic Web (SW) data and explain why we believe that the Blackboard Architecture is particularly suitable. We...
A Semantic Web Approach to Handling Soft Constraints in Virtual Organisations ABSTRACT (2009)
Alun Preece, Jeff Z. Pan, Stuart Chalmers, Peter Gray, Craig Mckenzie
In this paper we present a proposal for representing soft constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) within the Semantic Web architecture. The proposal is motivated by the need for a service-providing...
AKTive Workgroup Builder: Semantic Web Instance Data Reasoning (2008)
Craig Mckenzie, Alun Preece, Peter Gray
Abstract. Our interest lies in exploring the interplay between ontological and rule based reasoning with instance data when applied to Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) solving. The AKTive...
Abstract Towards Knowledge Fusion using Mobile Constraints across the Semantic Web (2008)
Craig Mckenzie, Supervisors Dr, Alun Preece, Prof Peter Gray
The AKTive Workgroup Builder (AWB) is a Semantic Web application that solves the practical problem of constructing working groups of people that conform to user specified constraints (e.g. minimum...
AKTive Workgroup Builder (AWB): Constraint Satisfaction Problem Solving over the Semantic Web (2008)
Craig Mckenzie, Alun Preece, Peter Gray
In this paper we introduce the AKTive Workgroup Builder (AWB) web application and describe how it uses distributed RDF data, defined against an OWL Lite ontology, to build and solve a user defined...
OntoSearch: Retrieval and Reuse of Ontologies (2008)
Edward Thomas, Yi Zhang, Derek Sleeman, Alun Preece, Craig Mckenzie, Joe Wright
This document provides an update on the development of OntoSearch[1][2], an ontology search engine designed to help users find RDF based ontological information on the Semantic Web. It uses the...
A Semantic Web Blackboard System (2008)
Craig Mckenzie, Alun Preece, Peter Gray
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a Blackboard Architecture as a means for coordinating hybrid reasoning over the Semantic Web. We describe the components of traditional blackboard systems...
ABSTRACT Handling Soft Constraints in the Semantic Web Architecture (2008)
Alun Preece, Jeff Z. Pan, Stuart Chalmers, Peter Gray, Craig Mckenzie
In this paper we present a proposal for representing soft CSPs within the Semantic Web architecture. The proposal is motivated by the need for a service-providing agent to reason about its...
OntoSearch: Retrieval and Reuse of Ontologies (2008)
Edward Thomas, Yi Zhang, Derek Sleeman, Alun Preece, Craig Mckenzie, Joe Wright
csd.abdn.ac.uk This document provides an update on the development of OntoSearch[1][2], an ontology search engine designed to help users find RDF based ontological information on the Semantic Web 1....
Towards the Management of Information Quality in Proteomics (2008)
We outline the application of a framework for managing information quality (IQ) in proteomics. The approach allows scientists to define the quality characteristics that are of importance in their...
Smart, Paul R, Mott, David, Gentle, Edward, Braines, Dave, Sieck, Winston, Poltrock, Steven, ...
As a fundamental research program, the International Technology Alliance (ITA) aims to explore innovative solutions to some of the challenges confronting US/UK coalition military forces in an era of...
OntoManager: A Workbench Environment to facilitate Ontology Management and Interoperability (2008)
Adil Hameed, Derek Sleeman, Alun Preece
Abstract. The prime motivation for our research is to enable sharing and reuse of domain knowledge through the engineering and management of ontologies. We contend that there is a need to reconcile...
The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response (2008)
Stephen Potter, Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum, Rodrigo Carvalho, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
Semantic Support for Computational Land-Use (2008)
Edoardo Pignotti, Pete Edwards, Alun Preece
Abstract — In this paper we explore the use of proposed Semantic Grid standards and methodology through deployment of a land use modelling service. The FEARLUS-G service architecture is presented...
A Semantic Web Approach to Handling Soft Constraints in Virtual Organisations (2008)
Alun Preece, Jeff Z. Pan, Stuart Chalmers, Peter Gray, Craig Mckenzie
In this paper we present a proposal for representing soft constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) within the Semantic Web architecture. The proposal is motivated by the need for a service-providing...
A Reusable Commitment Management Service using Semantic Web Technology (2008)
Alun Preece, Stuart Chalmers, Craig Mckenzie
Abstract. Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an organisation,...
GraniteNights- A Multi-Agent Visit Scheduler Utilising Semantic Web Technology (2008)
Gunnar Aastr, Stuart Chalmers, Pete Edwards, Alun Preece
Abstract. This paper describes a multi-agent system, GraniteNights, modelled on the Agentcities project “evening agent ” scenario. GraniteNights allows a user to plan an evening’s entertainment...
Argument Based Contract Enforcement (2008)
Nir Oren, Alun Preece, Timothy J. Norman
Agents may choose to ignore contract violations if the costs of enforcing the contract exceed the compensation they would receive. In this paper we describe an argumentation based framework for...
ABSTRACT Handling Soft Constraints in the Semantic Web Architecture (2008)
Alun Preece, Jeff Z. Pan, Stuart Chalmers, Peter Gray, Craig Mckenzie
In this paper we present a proposal for representing soft CSPs within the Semantic Web architecture. The proposal is motivated by the need for a service-providing agent to reason about its...
Implementing a Semantic Web Blackboard System using (2008)
Craig Mckenzie, Alun Preece, Peter Gray
In this paper, we discuss the need for a hybrid reasoning approach to handing Semantic Web data and explain why we believe that the Blackboard Architecture is particularly suitable. We describe how...
Towards a Model of Agent-Assisted Team Search (2008)
Gita Sukthankar, Katia P. Sycara, Joseph A. Giampapa, Chris Burnett, Alun Preece
Abstract—This paper is the first step in our research plan towards addressing the fundamental question of how software agents can best aid distributed human teams performing timestressed critical...
Stephen Potter, Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum, Rodrigo Carvalho, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
Stephen Potter, Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum, Rodrigo Carvalho, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
Information quality in proteomics (2008)
Stead, David A., Paton, Norman W., Missier, Paolo, Embury, Suzanne M., Hedeler, Cornelia, Jin, Binling, ...
Proteomics, the study of the protein complement of a biological system, is generating increasing quantities of data from rapidly developing technologies employed in a variety of different...
Alun Preece, Kit Hui, Alex Gray, Trevor Bench-capon, Dean Jones, Zhan Cui
This paper describes the KRAFT architecture which supports the fusion of knowledge from multiple, distributed, heterogeneous sources. The architecture uses constraints as a common knowledge...
Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language: A Review (2007)
KQML is a protocol designed to support communication between software agents. A distributed system architecture based on software agents is intended as a solution to problems inherent in the...
GraniteNights- A Multi-Agent Visit Scheduler Utilising Semantic Web Technology (2007)
Gunnar Aastr, Stuart Chalmers, Pete Edwards, Alun Preece
Abstract. This paper describes a multi-agent system, GraniteNights, modelled on the Agentcities project “evening agent ” scenario. Granite-Nights allows a user to plan an evening’s...
SupportingVirtual Organisationsthrough Knowledge Fusion (2007)
The formation and operation of dynamic and open virtual organisations is a central concern in business-to-business e-commerce. Virtual organisations enable partner companies to develop and...
KNOWLEDGE REUSE AND ONTOLOGIES (2007)
An ontology defines the terminology of a domain of knowledge: the concepts that constitute the domain, and the relationships between those concepts. In order for two or more knowledgebased systems to...
Building the Right System Right Evaluating V&V Methods in Knowledge Engineering (2007)
This paper argues that verification and validation (V&V) techniques are an essential part of the knowledge engineering process, because they offer the only way to judge the success (or otherwise)...
Designing for Scalabilty in a Knowledge Fusion System (2007)
Alun Preece, Kit Hui, Alex Gray
The KRAFT project has defined a generic agent-based architecture to support knowledge fusion — the process of locating and extracting knowledge from multiple, heterogeneous on-line sources, and...
Peter Edwards, Gunnar Aastr, Alun Preece
Abstract. The Semantic Web is a vision of a machine readable Web of resources, interlinked and connected through meta-data with common ontologies. In this paper we explore the impact such a Semantic...
OntoManager: A Workbench Environment to facilitate Ontology Management and Interoperability (2007)
Adil Hameed, Derek Sleeman, Alun Preece
Abstract. The prime motivation for our research is to enable sharing and reuse of domain knowledge through the engineering and management of ontologies. We contend that there is a need to reconcile...
Learning Meta-Descriptions of the FOAF Network (2007)
Gunnar AAstrand Grimnes, Gunnar Aastr, Pete Edwards, Alun Preece
We argue that in a distributed context, such as the Semantic Web, ontology engineers and data creators often cannot control (or even imagine) the possible uses their data or ontologies might have....
A Semantic Grid Service for Experimentation with an Agent-Based Model of Land-Use Change (2007)
Polhill, J. Gary, Pignotti, Edoardo, Gotts, Nicholas M., Edwards, Pete, Preece, Alun
Agent-based models, perhaps more than other models, feature large numbers of parameters and potentially generate vast quantities of results data. This paper shows through the FEARLUS-G project (an...
The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response (2007)
Potter, Stephen, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Alani, Harith, Bachler, Michelle, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Carvalho, Rodrigo, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response (2007)
Potter, Stephen, Kalfoglou, Yanni, Alani, Hairth, Bachler, Michelle, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Carvalho, Rodrigo, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response (2007)
Potter, Stephen, Kalfoglou, Yanni, Alani, Hairth, Bachler, Michelle, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Carvalho, Rodrigo, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response (2007)
Potter, Stephen, Kalfoglou, Yanni, Alani, Hairth, Bachler, Michelle, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Carvalho, Rodrigo, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
Argumentation based contract monitoring in uncertain domains (2007)
Nir Oren, Timothy J. Norman, Alun Preece
Few existing argumentation frameworks are designed to deal with probabilistic knowledge, and none are designed to represent possibilistic knowledge, making them unsuitable for many real world...
A Semantic Grid Service for Experimentation with an Agent-Based Model of Land-Use Change (2007)
J. Gary Polhill, Edoardo Pignotti, Nicholas M. Gotts, Pete Edwards, Alun Preece
Argumentation based contract monitoring in uncertain domains (2007)
Nir Oren, Timothy J. Norman, Alun Preece
Few existing argumentation frameworks are designed to deal with probabilistic knowledge, and none are designed to represent possibilistic knowledge, making them unsuitable for many real world...
using Semantic Web technology (2006)
Alun Preece, Stuart Chalmers, Craig Mckenzie
reusable commitment management service
A.: Managing Information Quality in e-Science Using Semantic Web Technology (2006)
Alun Preece, Binling Jin, Edoardo Pignotti, Paolo Missier, Suzanne Embury, David Stead, ...
Abstract. We outline a framework for managing information quality (IQ) in e-Science, using ontologies, semantic annotation of resources, and data bindings. Scientists define the quality...
Quality views: Capturing and exploiting the user perspective on data quality (2006)
There is a growing awareness among life scientists of the variability in quality of the data in both public and private repositories, and of the threat that poor data quality poses to the validity of...
A simple argumentation based contract enforcement mechanism (2006)
Nir Oren, Alun Preece, Timothy J. Norman
Abstract. Agents may choose to ignore contract violations if the costs of enforcing the contract exceed the compensation they would receive. In this paper we provide an argumentation based framework...
Norm Refinement: Informing the Re-negotiation of Contracts (2006)
Martin J. Kollingbaum, Timothy J. Norman, Alun Preece, Derek Sleeman
Conflicts between norms are a common problem in open Virtual Organisations and has to be dealt with. Norm-governed agents that populate such VO’s can remain operational only if they are able to...
A simple argumentation based contract enforcement mechanism (2006)
Nir Oren, Alun Preece, Timothy J. Norman
Abstract. Agents may choose to ignore contract violations if the costs of enforcing the contract exceed the compensation they would receive. In this paper we provide an argumentation based framework...
Quality views: Capturing and exploiting the user perspective on data quality (2006)
There is a growing awareness among life scientists of the variability in quality of the data in public repositories, and of the threat that poor data quality poses to the validity of experimental...
Heuristic For Argumentation, Nir Oren, Timothy J. Norman, Alun Preece
While researchers have looked at many aspects of argumentation, an area often neglected is that of argumentation strategies. That is, given multiple possible arguments that an agent can put forth,...
OntoSearch: Retrieval and Reuse of Ontologies (2005)
Thomas, Edward, Zhang, Yi, Sleeman, Derek, Preece, Alun, McKenzie, Craig, Wright, Joe
This document provides an update on the development of OntoSearch[1][2], an ontology search engine designed to help users find RDF based ontological information on the Semantic Web. It uses the...
Agent-Based Virtual Organisations for the Grid (2005)
Patel, Jigar, Teacy, W. T. Luke, Jennings, Nicholas R., Luck, Michael, Chalmers, Stuart, Oren, Nir, ...
The ability to create reliable, scalable virtual organisations (VOs) on demand in a dynamic, open and competitive environment is one of the challenges that underlie Grid computing. In response, in...
Monitoring, Policing and Trust for Grid-Based Virtual Organisations (2005)
Patel, Jigar, Teacy, W. T. Luke, Jennings, Nicholas R., Luck, Michael, Chalmers, Stuart, Oren, Nir, ...
A key challenge in Grid Computing is the ability to create reliable and scalable virtual organisations (VOs) which operate in an open, dynamic and competitive environment. In response, in the...
Agent-Based Virtual Organisations for the Grid (2005)
Patel, Jigar, Teacy, W. T. Luke, Jennings, N. R., Luck, Michael, Chalmers, Stuart, Oren, Nir, ...
The ability to create reliable, scalable virtual organisations (VOs) on demand in a dynamic, open and competitive environment is one of the challenges that underlie Grid computing. In response, in...
Monitoring, Policing and Trust for Grid-Based Virtual Organisations (2005)
Patel, Jigar, Teacy, W. T. Luke, Jennings, N. R., Luck, Michael, Chalmers, Stuart, Oren, Nir, ...
A key challenge in Grid Computing is the ability to create reliable and scalable virtual organisations (VOs) which operate in an open, dynamic and competitive environment. In response, in the...
Agent-Based Virtual Organisations for the Grid (2005)
Patel, Jigar, Teacy, W. T. Luke, Jennings, N. R., Luck, Michael, Chalmers, Stuart, Oren, Nir, ...
The ability to create reliable, scalable virtual organisations (VOs) on demand in a dynamic, open and competitive environment is one of the challenges that underlie Grid computing. In response, in...
Monitoring, Policing and Trust for Grid-Based Virtual Organisations (2005)
Patel, Jigar, Teacy, W. T. Luke, Jennings, N. R., Luck, Michael, Chalmers, Stuart, Oren, Nir, ...
A key challenge in Grid Computing is the ability to create reliable and scalable virtual organisations (VOs) which operate in an open, dynamic and competitive environment. In response, in the...
Lessons Learnt from Deployment of a Social Simulation Tool to the Semantic Grid (2005)
Pete Edwards, Alun Preece, Edoardo Pignotti, Gary Polhill, Nick Gotts
Abstract. In this paper we discuss the lessons learnt from the deployment of FEARLUS, an agent-based model of land-use change, into the Grid Context. We outline the requirements for improving the...
2005b): ‘Providing Ontology Support for Social Simulation (2005)
Edoardo Pignotti, Pete Edwards, Alun Preece, Gary Polhill, Nick Gotts
Abstract. Semantic Web technologies facilitate tasks such as collaboration, shared experimentation, and annotation of resources and have particular strength in capturing qualitative scientific...
Agent-Based Virtual Organisations for the Grid (2005)
Jigar Patel Luke, Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Luck, Nir Oren, Timothy J. Norman, ...
The ability to create reliable and scalable virtual organisations (VOs) on demand in a dynamic, open and competitive environment is one of the challenges that underlie Grid computing. In response, in...
Southampton and The Open University. Preface (2005)
Dave Lambert, Stuart Aitken, Yannis Kalfoglou, Martin Kolling, Christopher Brewster, Alun Preece
Advanced Knowledge Technologies is recognised as a leading research programme conducted at some of the foremost informatics departments in Britain. It is also a training ground for a new generation...
Delivering Services by Building and Running Virtual Organisations (2005)
Duong Nguyen, Simon Thompson, Jigar Patel, Nicholas R Jennings, Mike Luck, ...
In our view, customers in the future are likely to obtain their services from coalitions of service providers. These coalitions can be described as virtual organisations (VOs); they are group of...
Ghosts in the Semantic Web Machine? (2004)
Schraefel, M.c., Preece, Alun, Gibbins, Nick, Harris, Steve, Millard, Ian
in this paper we present the concept of a ghost, a lightweight container that holds pointers to RDF resources (such as RDF vCards or FOAF) which represent the person associated with the ghost. The...
Ghosts in the Semantic Web Machine? (2004)
Schraefel, M.c., Preece, Alun, Gibbins, Nick, Harris, Steve, Millard, Ian
in this paper we present the concept of a ghost, a lightweight container that holds pointers to RDF resources (such as RDF vCards or FOAF) which represent the person associated with the ghost. The...
Ghosts in the Semantic Web Machine? (2004)
Schraefel, M.c., Preece, Alun, Gibbins, Nick, Harris, Steve, Millard, Ian
in this paper we present the concept of a ghost, a lightweight container that holds pointers to RDF resources (such as RDF vCards or FOAF) which represent the person associated with the ghost. The...
Experience in using rdf in agent-mediated knowledge architectures (2004)
Kit Hui, Stuart Chalmers, Peter Gray, Alun Preece
We report on experience with using RDF to provide a rich content language for use with FIPA agent toolkits, and on RDFS as a metadata language. We emphasise their utility for programmers working in...
Policing Virtual Organizations (2004)
Nir Oren Tim, Tim Norman, Alun Preece, Stuart Chalmers
Autonomous agents within a multi-agent system can undertake behaviors that, while profitable for them, are damaging to the system as a whole. One way of regulating an agent's behavior is by...
Extending SWRL to express fully-quantified constraints (2004)
Craig Mckenzie, Peter Gray, Alun Preece
Abstract. Drawing on experience gained over a series of distributed knowledge base and database projects, we argue for the utility of an expressive quantified constraint language for the Semantic Web...
Learning from Semantic Flora & Fauna (2004)
Gunnar AAstrand Grimnes, Gunnar Aastr, Pete Edwards, Alun Preece
We argue that for a personal agent working within a Semantic Web framework, machine learning is essential.
Ontology reconciliation (2004)
Adil Hameed, Alun Preece, Derek Sleeman
Summary. Ontologies are being applied very successfully in supporting information and knowledge exchange between people and organisations. However, for many reasons, different people and...
Ontology reconciliation (2004)
Adil Hameed, Alun Preece, Derek Sleeman
Summary. Ontologies are being applied very successfully in supporting information and knowledge exchange between people and organisations. However, for many reasons, different people and...
Ontology Reconciliation (2003)
Hameed, Adil, Preece, Alun, Sleeman, Derek
Ontologies are being applied very successfully in supporting information and knowledge exchange between people and organisations. However, for many reasons, different people and organisations will...
Detecting Mismatches Among Experts' Ontologies Acquired through Knowledge Elicitation (2002)
Hameed, Adil, Sleeman, Derek, Preece, Alun
We have constructed a set of ontologies modelled on conceptual structures elicited from several domain experts. Protocols were collected from various experts who advise on the selection/specification...
Mobile Constraints for Semantic Web Applications (2002)
Gray, Peter, Hui, Kit, Preece, Alun
We present a framework for semantic web applications based on constraint interchange and processing.At the core of the framework is a well-established semantic data model (P/FDM)with an associated...
OntoManager:A Workbench Environment to facilitate Ontology Management and Interoperability (2002)
Hameed, Adil, Sleeman, Derek, Preece, Alun
The prime motivation for our research is to enable sharing and reuse of domain knowledge through the engineering and management of ontologies. We contend that there is a need to reconcile ontologies...
Similarity Assessment for Generalizied Cases by Optimization Methods (2002)
Mougouie, Babak, Bergmann, Ralph, Craw, Susan, Preece, Alun
Generalized cases are cases that cover a subspace rather than a point in the problem-solution space. Generalized cases can be represented by a set of constraints over the case attributes. For such...
Mobile Constraints for Semantic Web Applications (2002)
Peter Gray, Kit Hui, Alun Preece
pgray, khui,apreececsd.a bd n.ac.u k We present a framework for semantic web applications based on constraint interchange and processing. At the core of the framework is a well-established semantic...
Supporting virtual organisations using BDI agents and constraints (2002)
Abstract. Virtual organisations underpin many important activities in distributed computing, including e-commerce and e-science. This paper describes a new technique by which software agents can...
KRAFT: An agent architecture for knowledge fusion (2001)
Alun Preece, Kit Hui, Alex Gray, Philippe Marti, Trevor Bench-capon, Zhan Cui, ...
Knowledge fusion refers to the process of locating and extracting knowledge from multiple, heterogeneous on-line sources, and transforming it so that the union of the knowledge can be applied in...
Better knowledge management through knowledge engineering (2001)
Alun Preece, Alan Flett, Derek Sleeman, David Curry, Nigel Meany, Phil Perry, ...
organizations have a systematic process for capturing knowledge, as distinct from data. The authors illustrate how a large oil and gas service company uses knowledge-engineering processes to capture,...
Evaluating verification and validation methods in knowledge engineering (2001)
Abstract: Verification and validation (V&V) techniques have always been an essential part of the knowledge engineering process, because they offer the only way to judge the success (or otherwise)...
Better knowledge management through knowledge engineering (2001)
Alun Preece, Alan Flett, Derek Sleeman, David Curry, Nigel Meany, Phil Perry
Abstract: In recent years the term knowledge management has been used to describe the efforts of organisations to capture, store, and deploy knowledge. Most current knowledge management activities...
A.: Detecting Mismatches among Experts' Ontologies Acquired through Knowledge Elicitation (2001)
Adil Hameed, Derek Sleeman, Alun Preece
www.csd.abdn.ac.uk Abstract: We have constructed a set of ontologies modelled on conceptual structures elicited from several domain experts. Protocols were collected from various experts who advise...
The KRAFT architecture for knowledge fusion and transformation (1999)
Alun Preece, Kit Hui, Alex Gray, Trevor Bench-capon, Dean Jones, Zhan Cui
This paper describes the KRAFT architecture which supports the fusion of knowledge from multiple, distributed, heterogeneous sources. The architecture uses constraints as a common knowledge...
COVERAGE: Verifying Multiple-Agent Knowledge-Based Systems (1999)
The increasing development of distributed knowledge-based systems based upon the multipleagent paradigm demands techniques for the verification of these systems. As a minimum requirement, it is...
Reusable Components for Knowledge Base and Database Integration (1998)
Alun Preece, Alastair Borrowman, Ted Francis
Organisations increasingly need to integrate their database and knowledgebased systems into an enterprise-wide information system. This need applies to both new and legacy database and...
A Semantic Grid Service for Experimentation with an Agent-Based Model of Land-Use Change
J. Gary Polhill, Edoardo Pignotti, Nicholas M. Gotts, Pete Edwards, Alun Preece
Agent-based models, perhaps more than other models, feature large numbers of parameters and potentially generate vast quantities of results data. This paper shows through the FEARLUS-G project (an...
KRAFT: Supporting Virtual Organisations through Knowledge Fusion
Alun Preece, Kit Hui, Peter Gray
The formation and operation of dynamic and open virtual organisations is a central concern in business-to-business e-commerce. Virtual organisations enable partner companies to develop and...