The Interactive Knowledge Capture Project at ISI


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Description

Our research covers various aspects of user-centered knowledge-rich environments for distributed problem solving. We work on a variety of applications, including scientific workflows and grid computing, intelligent assistants for office tasks, and a variety of defense-related topics.

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Status

We have a collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota to gather knowledge from visitors and use it to address AI tasks.
Visit our new Demo Gallery to see short demos of our work
We just demonstrated new results in planning workflows for the grid.

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Research

Our research topics include knowledge capture, knowledge bases and ontologies, intelligent user interfaces, semantic web, grid computing, dialogue planning, natural language understanding, planning and decision aids, problem solving methods and process modeling, workflow composition, trust and access policies, multi-agent systems, and service-based architectures.

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Publications

"Provenance Trails in the Wings/Pegasus Workflow System", Jihie Kim, Ewa Deelman, Yolanda Gil, Gaurang Mehta, Varun Ratnakar. In To appear in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Special Issue on the First Provenance Challenge, 2007

"Wings for Pegasus: Creating Large-Scale Scientific Applications Using Semantic Representations of Computational Workflows", Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar, Ewa Deelman, Gaurang Mehta, Jihie Kim. In To appear in Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 22-26, 2007

"Workflow Composition", Yolanda Gil. In In Workflows for e-Science, D. Gannon, E. Deelman, M. Shields, I. Taylor (Eds), Springer Verlag, 2006

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National Science Foundation (NSF)
DARPA's Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL)
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)