A Web-Based Knowledge Network for Supporting Emerging Internet Applications

  • Authors:
  • Minsoo Lee;Stanley Y. W. Su;Herman Lam

  • Affiliations:
  • 2op1087 Oracle Corporation, 200 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065, USA Minsoo.Lee@oracle.com;Database Systems R&D Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA su@cise.ufl.edu;Database Systems R&D Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA hlam@cise.ufl.edu

  • Venue:
  • World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Although the Internet and the World Wide Web technologies have gained a tremendous amount of popularity among people and organizations, the network that these technologies created is not much more than a multimedia data network. It provides tools and services for people to browse and search for data but does not provide the facilities for automatically delivering the relevant information for supporting decision-making to the right people or applications at the right time. Nor does it provide the means for users to enter and share their “knowledge” that would be useful for making the right decisions. In this work, we introduce the concept of a Web-based knowledge network, which allows users and organizations to publish, not only their multimedia data, but also their knowledge in terms of events, parameterized event filters, customizable rules and triggers that are associated with their data and application systems. Operations on the data and application systems may post events over the Internet to trigger the processing of rules defined by both information providers and consumers. The knowledge network is constructed by a number of replicable software components, which can be installed at various network sites. They, together with the existing Web servers, form a network of knowledge Web servers.