Title: Knowledge engineering within the application-independent architecture SEASALT

Authors: Meike Reichle, Kerstin Bach, Klaus-Dieter Althoff

Addresses: Intelligent Information Systems, University of Hildesheim, Marienburger Platz 22, Hildesheim, 31141, Germany. ' Intelligent Information Systems, University of Hildesheim, Marienburger Platz 22, Hildesheim, 31141, Germany. ' Intelligent Information Systems, University of Hildesheim, Marienburger Platz 22, Hildesheim, 31141, Germany

Abstract: Sharing Experience using an Agent-based System Architecture Layout (SEASALT) presents an instantiation of the Collaborating Multi-expert Systems (CoMES) approach. It integrates techniques from software engineering and combines them with artificial intelligence methodologies. The approach offers an application-independent architecture that features knowledge acquisition from a web-community, knowledge modularisation and agent-based knowledge maintenance. The paper introduces a travel medicine as application domain which applies SEASALT and describes each part of the novel architecture for extracting, analysing, sharing and providing community experiences in an individualised way.

Keywords: knowledge engineering; distributed CBR; case-based reasoning; knowledge management; experience management; expert systems; software engineering; artificial intelligence; application-independent architecture; knowledge acquisition; web based communities; travel medicine; agent-based systems; multi-agent-systems; MAS; knowledge modularisation; knowledge maintenance.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKEDM.2011.037643

International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining, 2011 Vol.1 No.3, pp.202 - 215

Published online: 07 Mar 2015 *

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