Active Catalogs

Peter Will

USC/ISI

Active Catalogs

Goals

Vision of Active Catalogs

Current On-Line Catalogs:

Concurrent Design Activities

Why Active Catalog Technology, Now

Approaches

Active Catalogs Scenario

Active Catalogs

Technical Challenges

Mapping User Requirement to Query

Ontology

Product Ontolgy (in Loom)

PP Presentation

Supporting Query Reformulation

Search based on Multiple Views

PP Presentation

PP Presentation

Interface Supporting

Current Search Interface

What remains to be done (‘98)

PP Presentation

Exploring a Motor in Active Catalogs

Active Catalogs Architecture

Generating models from a domain theory

Generating Models from Performance Data

Interoperation of models

Model Composition at Multiple Levels of Abstractions

Current Progress

Future Milestones

Collaboration in Guidance Group

PP Presentation

Products