Complex relationships and knowledge discovery support in the InfoQuilt system

✍ Scribed by A. Sheth; S. Thacker; S. Patel

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 583 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1066-8888
• DOI: 10.1007/s00778-002-0071-z

✦ Synopsis

Support for semantic content is becoming more common in Web-accessible information systems. We see this support emerging with the use of ontologies and machinereadable, annotated documents. The practice of domain modeling coupled with the extraction of domain-specific, contextually relevant metadata also supports the use of semantics. These advancements enable knowledge discovery approaches that define complex relationships between data that is autonomously collected and managed. The InfoQuilt 1 system supports one such knowledge discovery approach. This paper presents (parts of) the InfoQuilt system with the focus on its use for modeling and utilizing complex semantic inter-domain relationships to enable human-assisted knowledge discovery over Web-accessible heterogeneous data. This includes the specification and execution of Information Scale (IScapes), a semantically rich information request and correlation mechanism.