An ontology-based broker: making problem-solving method reuse work
Dieter Fensel · 1997
. We present the architecture of an intelligent broker for enabling the use of problem-solving methods via the World Wide Web (WWW). The core component of such a broker is realised by an ontologist and an adapter. The ontologiest helps to mediate between domain-specific requirements and knowledge at the one hand and methodspecific terms describing the competence and requirements of the reasoning components via generic problem descriptions at the other hand. Adapters are necessary to provide domain knowledge and case data to problem-solving methods and to rephrase the output of problem-solving methods into domain-specific terms. They ensure the mapping during runtime. Therefore, the ontologist mediates the selection and adaptation process of PSMs whereas the adapter mediates the execution of them. 1 Introduction The slogan level is the level above the knowledge level where you can introduce CIFs (i.e., community interchange formats). The concept problem-solving method (PSM) is present i...