Distributed Servers and Clients

• Knowledge servers

  • Knowledge base storage
  • Deductive retrieval
    • Query answering with selectable level of inference
  • Reformulation
  • Accessed via a knowledge level network API
  • Analogous to data base servers

• Knowledge clients

  • Operate with any server that supports the API
  • Tools for developing and using knowledge bases
    • Construction, analysis, merging, reformulation, viewing, …
  • Applications that access multi-use knowledge bases

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