In this paper, we introduce a knowledge-based meta-model which serves as a uniied resource model for integrating characteristics of major types of objects appearing in software development models (SDMs). The URM consists of resource classes and a web of relations that link diierent types of resources found in diierent kinds of models of software development. The URM includes specialized models ...

Case-based reasoning is a recent approach to problem solving and learning that has got a lot of attention over the last few years. Originating in the US, the basic idea and underlying theories have spread to other continents, and we are now within a period of highly active research in case-based reasoning in Europe, as well. This paper gives an overview of the foundational issues related to cas...

A year ago, we published a special issue of The Knowledge Engineering Review entitled \ Perspectives on Recent Intelligent Agents Research as Viewed through Two Conferences". Our intention was to provide a snapshot of current research on intelligent agents|an area which continues to grow apace|by looking at the work presented at the 1997 instantiations of two of the major events in the Agent ca...

Virtual Knowledge Communities (VKC) are current popular media on the internet through which the access and sharing of knowledge and information among communities of similar interest groups are made possible. Agent’s technologies are presently being deployed to facilitate the success of VKC, which is a virtual place where knowledge agents can meet, communicate and interact among themselves. Rece...

This paper describes the design and evaluation of a coach that helps students collaborate while solving Entity Relationship modeling problems in a computer-mediated learning environment (COLER). Unlike previous work generally emphasizing dialogue analysis or expert models, this work evaluates a new approach to supporting collaboration that identifies learning opportunities based on differences ...

Emergent processes are business processes whose execution is determined by the prior knowledge of the agents involved and by the knowledge that emerges during a process instance. The amount of process knowledge that is relevant to a knowledgedriven process can be enormous and may include common-sense knowledge. If a process’ knowledge cannot be represented feasibly, then that process cannot be ...

Intelligence can be defined, informally, as knowing a lot and being able to use that knowledge flexibly to achieve one's goals. In this sense it is clear that knowledge is central to intelligence. However, it is less clear exactly what knowledge is, what gives it meaning, and how it can be efficiently acquired and used. In this talk we reexamine aspects of these age-old questions in light of mo...

Various knowledge-based information systems contain distinct knowledge representations reflecting different domains of interest and different viewpoints across domains of discourse. For efficient use of knowledge-based systems it is necessary to know semantic relations or alignment between different knowledge representations. One of the promising approaches is the use of intelligent software ag...

Various knowledge-based information systems contain distinct knowledge representations reflecting different domains of interest and different viewpoints across domains of discourse. For efficient use of knowledge-based systems it is necessary to know semantic relations or alignment between different knowledge representations. One of the promising approaches is the use of intelligent software ag...