Archive for the ‘Research’ Category

qKAI in Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

The International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems just posted its new issue (Volume2/Nr2&3). qKAI is part of it with a contribution titled “Utilizing Open Content for Higher-Layered Rich Client Applications” (pp. 303 – 316).

First, we introduce some background regarding the qKAI application framework. In Section 2 follows what we see as prerequisite to utilize Open Content for higher-layered applications. Section 3 gives an overview of the qKAI application frameworks’ system design. Section 4 offers some more details concerning the qKAI hybrid data layer as one system level of the 4-tier design. Section 5 shows further services and components, Section 6 exemplifies use cases and further application scenarios. At least this contribution ends up with a conclusion and future work in Section 7.

Paper about enhanced user interaction and information quality accepted

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

The DigitalWorld 2010 (eLmL) accepted our paper “Towards Enhanced User Interaction to Qualify Web Resources for higher-layered applications“.

In this contribution we present our adaption of information quality aspects to qualify Web resources. We selected knowledge-related iq-criteria and take it now as tool to implement iq-mechanisms stepwise into the qKAI framework. We exemplify some criteria of information quality like relevance, accuracy or response time and then derive assessment methods for certain iq-criteria enabling rich, game-based user interaction and semantic resource annotation.

Barcelona and the INCoS conference …

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Barcelona and the INCoS conference were great. We had the Mapfre tower as meeting place – marvelous :)

Specification of information units

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Jan Hein finished his Master thesis at the end of 2008 with the topic: ‘Specification and implementation of information units for qualifying knowledge modelling’ (Thesis in German). Automated extraction of text chunks out of Wikipedia without loosing structure and context is next to semantic annotation the main focus of his work.

The specification of information units can be found here: http://qkai.org/spec/2008/10/

The Wikipedia Extractor prototype is available under http://qkai.org/WikipediaExtractor