Historical Projects

This page lists the current projects with STI Innsbruck. Please see the archive and the historical projects for more on completed projects.

An Intelligent Brokering Service for Knowledge-Component Reuse on the World-Wide Web (IBROW)

Website: http://ibrow.sti2.at

The objective of IBROW is to develop intelligent brokers that are able to distributively configure reusable components into knowledge systems through the World-Wide Web. The WWW is changing the nature of software development to a distributive plug & play process, which requires a new kind of managing software: intelligent software brokers.

IBROW will integrate research on heterogeneous DB, interoperability and Web technology with knowledge-system technology and ontologies.

On-To-Knowledge

Website: http://ontoknowledge.sti2.at/

The Information Society builds on the convergence of information, communication and networking technologies and takes advantage of infrastructures like the Internet and the Web. The aim of the IST-Programme is to help to create a user friendly information society. Currently there is a large gap between the information needs of a user and the way information is made available online.

Within the On-To-Knowledge-Project we will develop tools and methods for supporting knowledge management relying on sharable and reusable knowledge ontologies. The technical backbone of On-To-Knowledge is the use of ontologies for the various tasks of information integration and mediation.

The application focus of On-To-Knowledge is the knowledge management in large and distributed organisations. This aspect of On-To-Knowledge is emphasised by three case studies in the areas of Organisational Memory of a large company, help desk functionality of a call centre, and the knowledge management in a virtual enterprise.