Enterprise Information Architectures

This research focuses on strategies for the automated acquisition and distribution of information to/from agents in a distributed environment, and the management of inconsistency that arise at the juncture of an agent's local data/knowledge bases and enterprise data/knowledge in distributed multi-agent information systems.

The Enterprise Information Architecture (EIA) is based on a distributed agent environment communicating via messages. The standard agent that we have constructed contains the ROCK knowledge representation system integrated with Quintus Prolog for deductive reasoning. We are participating in the (US) Advanced Research Projects Agency Knowledge Sharing Initiative project to create a standard protocol for communicating agents. We are completing a C++ version of the protocol: Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language (KQML). KQML provides for the both the query and assertion of information, and for subscribing to and distributing information.

Once the basic mechanisms are in place, we will focus our attention on the development of theories of data/knowledge inconsistency management in distributed, multi-agent systems.

EIL Research Papers - ENTERPRISE INFORMATION ARCHITECTURES