IBROW

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IBROW

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

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Scout Review IBROW

• March 24, 1999
• University of Amsterdam

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Program

• 1100 - 1150 Introduction and overview of the
  IBROW Project
• 1150 - 1230 Problem-Solving Method
  Description Language
• 1230 - 1330 Lunch
• 1330 - 1410 IBROW Broker / Reasoning Services
• 1410 - 1450 Adaptation and Refinement Framework

• 1450- 1510 Break
• 1510 - 1540 Perspectives of the Underlying
  Technology
• 1540 - 1600 2nd Phase Approach
• 1600- 1620 Break
• 1620 - 1700 Discussion

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IBROW project

• ESPRIT, Open Long Term Research
• basic research
• industrial potential
• unknown risk
• Partners
• University of Amsterdam, SWI (nl)
• University of Karlsruhe, AIFB (de)
• Open University, KMI (uk)
• Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (es)

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Objectives of IBROW

• Develop an intelligent brokering service that
  enables third party knowledge-component reuse
  through the Web
• Configurable reasoning services on the web
• Plug Play of PSMs and Ontologies

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The agents involved
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Motivation

• Topdown
• make KE technology on reuse more widely
  accessible at lower cost
• Bottom up
• several PSM libraries exist, but not accessible
  nor interoperable
• WWW is here to stay

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Approach

• Standard Product Description Language
• Libraries of reusable PSMs and Ontologies
• Brokering problem-solving knowledge
• Interoperability
• User Interface (browser)

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Innovative aspects

• Most web services broker static information
• Metacrawler, Searchbroker, Ontobroker
• IBROW brokers dynamic (reasoning) knowledge
• Opens possibility for a new electronic market
  place

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Looking back on 1st phase

• Many meetings needed
• Open LTR
• ambitious, high risk
• Industrial seminar
• participants of 7 industries
• industrial interest of underlying technology

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Industrial seminar

• Unilever (NL)
• Bolesian (NL)
• DaimlerChrysler (DE)
• ABB Corporate Research Center (DE)
• AIAI (UK)
• IBM (JP)
• Solvision (NL)

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Production

• 7 publications, and more to come
• Deliverables
• 3 small demos
• Project memory at BSCW server
• Second phase proposal
• Small budget