i-footman: A Knowledge-Based Framework for Football Managers

i-footman constitutes a knowledge-based framework aiming to provide assistive services to football managers. More precisely, the system accommodates a number of managing processes (e.g., selection of team composition) in the context of football by adopting a declarative approach. It also takes advantage of Semantic Web technologies in order to represent and manage the required application models. i-footman is based on a flexible architecture that facilitates possible extensions in the functionality and the quality of the provided services. The paper presents the overall architecture as well as certain implementation details of the system.