1. Content and Knowledge Management QUB/UU Contributions to ICONS
Prof David Bell
Queen’s University, Belfast

2. ICONS Partners
Rodan Systems S.A., Warsaw, Poland. Chief responsibility: project management, ICONS architecture, prototype development. Contact persons: dr Witold Staniszkis, dr Bartosz Nowicki. Website: Corporate profile presentation: Rodan.ppt (PowerPoint, KB).
Institute of Computer Science, The Polish Academy of Sciences (ICS), Warsaw, Poland. Chief responsibility: assessment of tools, standards, and methods, advanced graphic user interface. Contact person: prof. Kazimierz Subieta. Website: Corporate profile presentation: ICS_PAS.ppt (PowerPoint, 140 KB).
Centro di Ingegneria Economica e Sociale (CIES), Arcavacata di Rende, Italy. Chief responsibility: multi-paradigm knowledge representation Contact persons: prof. Nicola Leone, prof. Pasquale Rullo. Corporate profile presentation: CIES.ppt (PowerPoint, 147 KB).
Infovide SA, Warsaw, Poland. Chief responsibility: design and development of the "Structural Fund Project Knowledge Portal". Contact person: Marcin Lewandowski. Website: Corporate profile presentation: Infovide.ppt (PowerPoint, 339 KB).
Sema Group Belgium, Brussels, Belgium. Chief responsibility: design and development of the "Structural Fund Project Knowledge Portal". Contact persons: Jules Georges, Stoimir Djoudjev. Website: be.sema.com. Corporate profile presentation: SchlumbergerSema.ppt (PowerPoint, KB).
University Paris 9 Dauphine, Centre Des Etudes Et De Recherches En Informatique Appliquee, Paris, France. Chief responsibility: distributed content repository. Contact person: prof. Witold Litwin. Website: ceria.dauphine.fr. Corporate profile presentation: Dauphine.ppt (PowerPoint, 195 KB).
University of Ulster/Queen’s University Belfast,, U.K. Chief responsibility: multi-paradigm knowledge representation. Contact person: Prof. David Bell. Web:

3. Some Research Issues in ICONS

4. ICONS formal information
Rodan Systems - co-ordinator, initiator, project management, architecture, prototype development, procedural knowledge
Queen’s University /Univ of Ulster - knowledge management paradigms
IPI Polish Academy of Sc - tools, standards, methods, user interface
University of Dauphine - distributed content repository
Universita della Calabria - inference machine Datalog
Sema Group - development of the e-Government Portal
InfoVide - ICONS deployment methodology
Budget: > 3 million EURO; founded 1,9
Duration: 24 months; effort 350 man-months

5. Project goals Developing a stable prototype
Demonstration of the viability of the ICONS prototype
in a real application – e-Government demonstrator
Supporting uniform, knowledge-based access to
distributed information resources available in the form of web pages,
pre-existing heterogeneous databases, as well as
legacy information processing systems.
Managing knowledge base comprising
meta-information representing the domain ontology of various nature (structural, procedural, declarative, knowledge maps)
multimedia content

6. Specific Issues QUB/UU are addressing
Prof David Bell
Yaxin Bi
Dr Hui Wang
Gongde Guo
QUB and UU

7. Introduction Knowledge Representation Collaboration
Information Integration

8. 1.Knowledge Representation (DLP)
Disjunctive Logic Programming
Declarative knowledge representation features (fitting in with U of Calabria’s methods)
Inclusion of Uncertainty

9. Knowledge Representation (D-S)
Dempster-Shafer Theory
Data Representation using Dempster-Shafer theory
Extended relational database model
Evidence and Rules
Rule Strengths
Data and Evidence
From Evidence Strengths And Rule Strengths To Hypothesis Strength

10. 2.Collaboration Data Mining Clustering Classification/Categorisation
Rule Extraction
Summarization

11. Implementation Implement a platform for text categorization
Implement a k-NN Model classification algorithm
Integrate three classification algorithms,
including SVM, KNN and ROCCHIO
Support multi-types of documents
Support multi-language documents

12. 3. Intelligent Agents

13. Integration Intelligent, web services based agents
a software entity that carries out some set of operations on behalf of a user or another program with some degree of independence or autonomy, and in so doing, employing some knowledge or representation of the user’s goals or desires

14. Implementation of the IADE
An Intelligent Agent Development Environment has been implemented which is built on the JADE agent platform
Two applications – Communities of Practice and Web Services, as part of a knowledge management system.
Web Services return explicit knowledge from which a user can formulate a request for tacit knowledge to be returned by an expert through the CoP applications.
Admin and user GUI has been written to allow admin of the agents and ontology manipulation for Web Services.

15. Two kinds of Agent
Answering hard questions from user Helping user see more