Re: info
Robert Neches <neches@ISI.EDU>
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To: weltyc@cs.rpi.edu
Cc: interlingua@ISI.EDU
Reply-To: neches@ISI.EDU
Subject: Re: info
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 08 Dec 1993 14:07:07 -0500.
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Date: Wed, 08 Dec 93 13:04:55 PST
From: Robert Neches <neches@ISI.EDU>
>
> Tried interlingua-request, no such address. I'm looking for pointers
> to on-line onfo about the knowledge sharing initiative.
As Richard Fikes pointed out, documents and information can be obtained
via anonymous FTP from ksl.stanford.edu under the directory /pub/knowledge-sharing/*.
If, however, what you are seeking is a short overview of the overall effort, the brief
summary below may be of some additional use...
-- Bob Neches
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Robert Neches
USC/ISI, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA
Phone: 310/822-1511, Fax: 310/823-6714
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THE KNOWLEDGE SHARING EFFORT
The Knowledge Sharing Effort is a consortium to develop conventions
facilitating sharing and reuse of knowledge bases and knowledge based
systems. The goal of the effort is to define, develop, and test
infrastructure and supporting technology to enable participants to build
much bigger and more broadly functional systems than could be achieved
working alone. The output of the effort consists of (1) public-domain
specifications and implementations of supporting technology; (2)
reports, papers, and technical articles; (3) a reusable public library
of proof-of-concept demonstrations.
Building new knowledge-based systems today usually entails constructing
new knowledge bases from scratch. It could instead be done by
assembling together reusable components. System developers would then
only need to worry about creating the specialized knowledge and
reasoners new to the specific task of their system. Their new system
would inter-operate with existing systems, using them to perform some of
its reasoning. In this way, declarative knowledge, problem solving
techniques and reasoning services could all be shared among systems.
This would facilitate building bigger and better systems cheaply. The
infrastructure to support such sharing and reuse would lead to greater
ubiquity of these systems, potentially transforming the knowledge
industry. Definition of conventions enabling sharing among
collaborators is the essential first step toward these goals.
Technical analyses of knowledge representation technology indicated four
complementary areas in which development of common, agreed-upon
conventions would enhance leverage between individual research efforts.
(These analyses were initiated in a three-day workshop involving over 40
top AI and database researchers from DARPA, NSF, and industry
communities.) The Knowledge Sharing Effort is organized around working
groups addressing each of these four areas. Each working group maintains
an electronic mailing list for discussions. The groups are:
INTERLINGUA: concerned with translation between different representation
languages, with sub-interests in translation at design time and at
run-time (Working Group Co-Chairs: Richard Fikes and Mike Genesereth.
Mailing-list: Interlingua@isi.edu. To join, send an e-mail request to
Kary@isi.edu.)
KRSS (Knowledge Representation System Specification): concerned with defining
common constructs within families of representation languages (Working Group
Co-Chairs: Bill Swartout and Peter Patel-Schneider. Mailing-list:
KRSS@isi.edu. To join, send an e-mail request to Kary@isi.edu.)
EXTERNAL INTERFACES: concerned with run-time interactions between
knowledge based systems and other modules in a run-time environment,
with sub-interests in communication protocols for KB-to-KB and for
KB-to-DB (Working Group Co-Chairs: Tim Finin, Jay Weber. Mailing-list:
KQML-Users@isi.edu. To join, send an empty e-mail message to the automated
mailbox ISD-Serv@isi.edu and follow the instructions sent in response.)
SHARED, REUSABLE KNOWLEDGE BASES: concerned with facilitating consensus on
contents of sharable knowledge bases, with sub-interests in shared knowledge
for particular topic areas and in topic-independent development
tools/methodologies. (Working Group Co-Chairs: Tom Gruber and Marty Tenenbaum
Mailing-list: SRKB-List@isi.edu. To join, send an empty e-mail message to
the automated mailbox ISD-Serv@isi.edu and follow the instructions sent in
response.)
The Knowledge Sharing Effort currently involves participants from over a
dozen different research centers around the United States, as well as a small
number of centers abroad. A representative list of participating research
centers includes AT&T, Carnegie-Mellon University, EITech, Hewlett-Packard
Research Center, Lockheed, Northwestern University, University of
Saarbrucken, USC / Information Sciences Institute, Stanford Research
Institute, Stanford University, Paramax, University of Maryland, University
of Texas, and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
For further information, contact:
Robert Neches
USC / Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
213 / 822-1511 (after Nov. 5, 310/822-1511)
Neches@isi.edu
In addition to the /pub/knowledge-sharing directory at ksl.stanford.edu, the following
publications are available as hardcopies from ISI by e-mail request to SCoyazo@isi.edu:
Neches, R. Knowledge Sharing in Integrated User Support Environments: Applications,
Frameworks, and Infrastructure. In K. Fuchi and T. Yokoi (Eds.), Proceedings of the
1993 International Conference on Building and Sharing of Very Large-Scale Knowledge
Bases. Tokyo, Japan: Japan Information Processing Development Center (JIPDEC),
December 1-4, 1993.
Swartout, W.R., Neches, R., Patil, R. Knowledge Sharing: Prospects and Challenges. In
K. Fuchi and T. Yokoi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1993 International Conference on
Building and Sharing of Very Large-Scale Knowledge Bases, Tokyo, Japan, December
1-4, 1993.
Finin, T., Fritzson, R., and McKay, D. KQML: An Information and Knowledge
Exchange Protocol (extended abstract). In K. Fuchi and T. Yokoi (Eds.), Proceedings of
the 1993 International Conference on Building and Sharing of Very Large-Scale
Knowledge Bases, Tokyo, Japan, December 1-4, 1993.
Finin, T., Weber. J, et. al. KQML -- Draft Specification of the
Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language by the ARPA Knowledge
Sharing Effort External Interfaces Working Group. Technical Report,
June, 1993.
Fikes, R., Genesereth, M., et. al. KIF -- Draft Specification of
the Knowledge Interchange Format by the ARPA Knowledge Sharing
Effort Interlingua Working Group. Technical Report, 1993.
Neches, R. Review of D.B. Lenat & R. Guha, Building Large Knowledge-Based
Systems. Journal of Artificial Intelligence, 61, 1993, pp. 65-79.
Neches, R. Foley, J.D., Szekely, P., Sukaviriya, P., Luo, P., Kovacevic, S.,
Hudson, S. Knowledgeable Development Environments Using Shared Design Models.
In Proceedings of the ACM/AAAI International Workshop on Intelligent User
Interfaces, Orlando, FL, January, 1993.
Neches, R., & Arango, G. Design Capture. To appear in G. Zack & J. Hopcroft
(Eds.), Information Technology Issues in Concurrent Design and Engineering,
Academic Press, 1993.
Patil, R.S., Fikes, R.E., Patel-Schneider, P.F., McKay, D., Finin, T., Gruber,
T., & Neches, R. The DARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort: Progress Report. In
Proceedings of KR'92, The Annual International Conference on Knowledge
Acquisition, Cambridge, MA, October, 1992.
Neches, R. Cognitive Issues in the Shelter Knowledge Base Development
Environment. In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Cognitive Issues
in Knowledge Acquisition, Stanford, CA, March, 1992.
Neches, R. Acquisition of Knowledge for Sharing and Reuse. In B.R. Gaines
(Ed.), Proceedings of the Annual Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Banff,
Canada, October 6-11, 1991.
Neches, R., Fikes, R., Finin, T., Gruber, T., Patil, R., Senator, T., &
Swartout, W.R. Enabling Technology for Knowledge Sharing. AI Magazine,
12(3), 1991, 36-56.
Additional information may be obtained from individual working group
chairs by email to:
-- Interlingua: Fikes@hpp.stanford, MRG@sunburn.stanford.edu
-- KRSS: pfps@research.att.com, swartout@isi.edu
-- KQML: Finin@cs.umbc.edu, Weber@eitech.com
-- SRKB: Gruber@hpp.stanford.edu