USING AGENTS AND XML FOR KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND EXCHANGE: AN INTELLIGENT DISTRIBUTED DECISION SUPPORT ARCHITECTURE (IDDSA)
Rahul Singh, A. F. Salam, Lakshmi Iyer · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2003
This paper presents an Intelligent Distributed Decision Support Architecture (IDDSA) for knowledge management by Intelligent Agents.This research contributes to existing knowledge through the development of a methodology to represent modular, rule-based knowledge using XML Schema and decision trees and to share this knowledge through intelligent agent architectures.We show the application of this methodology to create problem-specific knowledge modules that are easily distributed over the Internet and support the design of distributed IDSS.Such an approach will further the research in intelligent decision support by providing the required knowledge representation and decision analytical support on distributed platforms such as the internet.We present directions for future research that utilize the benefits of this research through a conceptual framework for agent-enabled IDSS to manage the generation and use of decision models that support decision specific tasks on distributed platforms.