A Semantic Web Blackboard System
McKenzie, Mr Craig and Preece, Dr Alun and Gray, Prof Peter (2006) A Semantic Web Blackboard System. 26th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI2006), Cambridge, UK.
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In this paper, we propose a Blackboard Architecture as a means for coordinating hybrid reasoning over the Semantic Web. We describe the components of traditional blackboard systems (Knowledge Sources, Blackboard, Controller) and then explain how we have enhanced these by incorporating some of the principles of the SemanticWeb to pro- duce our Semantic Web Blackboard. Much of the framework is already in place to facilitate our research: the communication protocol (HTTP); the data representation medium (RDF); a rich expressive description language (OWL); and a method of writing rules (SWRL). We further en- hance this by adding our own constraint based formalism (CIF/SWRL) into the mix.We provide an example walk-though of our test-bed system, the AKTive Workgroup Builder and Blackboard(AWB+B), illustrating the interaction and cooperation of the Knowledge Sources and providing some context as to how the solution is achieved. We conclude with the strengths and weaknesses of the architecture.
| Keywords: | Semantic Web, Blackboard Systems, Blackboard Architecture, Constraint Satisfaction Problem Solving, CSP, RDF, OWL, Rules, Constraints |
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| Subjects: | Student Papers AKT Challenges > Knowledge reuse |
| ID Code: | 564 |
| Deposited By: | McKenzie, Mr Craig |
| Deposited On: | 25 February 2007 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~cmckenzi/writing/publications/AI2006.pdf |
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