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Procedia CS. 01/2011; 5:669-676.
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44th Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS-44 2011), Proceedings, 4-7 January 2011, Koloa, Kauai, HI, USA; 01/2011
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ABSTRACT: This chapter presents a distributed event-triggered knowledge network (ETKnet) developed for use by government organizations
to share not only data and application operations but also knowledge embedded in organizational and inter-organizational policies,
regulations, data, and security constraints as well as collaborative processes and operating procedures. A unified knowledge
and process specification language has been developed to formally specify multi-faceted human and organizational knowledge
in terms of three types of knowledge rules and rule structures. A user-friendly interface is provided for collaborating organizations
to define events of interest as well as automated and manual operations, operation structures, knowledge rules, rule structures,
and triggers. Through this interface, these organizations can also perform task management, administrative management, configuration
management, and ontology management. Events are published in a global registry for browsing, querying, event subscription,
and notification. Rules and rule structures are automatically translated into Web services for discovery and distributed processing
in ETKnet. Event data are dots that can be connected dynamically across organizational boundaries through the interoperation
of knowledge rules and processes.
KeywordsKnowledge management-Distributed system-Collaboration technology-Event-based system-Agriculture homeland security
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The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2010, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 30 - June 3, 2010, Proceedings, Part I; 01/2010
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IJEB. 01/2008; 6:67-92.
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Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Bridging Disciplines & Domains, DG.O 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, May 20-23, 2007; 01/2007
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Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Bridging Disciplines & Domains, DG.O 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, May 20-23, 2007; 01/2007
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Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI - 2005, August 15-17, 2005, Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas, NV, USA; 01/2005
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ABSTRACT: Today's government and business organizations face many complex problems and challenges. Effective resource sharing, collaboration and coordination among organizations are needed. Collaborating organizations need to share not only data, but also human and organizational knowledge embedded in organizational and inter-organizational policies, regulations, constraints, processes and operating procedures. This paper presents an XML-based knowledge and process specification language, a user interface tool, and a distributed Event-Triggered Knowledge Network (ETKnet). The language allows policies, regulations and constraints to be specified in terms of three types of rules and structures composed of these rules. The action clause of a condition-action rule allows a process or an operating procedure to be specified in the form of a structure of manual and automated operations having various constructs. The user-interface is meant to ease the user's task of defining events of common interest, along with rules and rule structures, and outputting the captured knowledge in the specification language. The rules and rule structures in the XML format are automatically translated into program code, wrapped as web services and installed at the defining organizations' sites. When an event occurs, data associated with the event is sent to the sites that contain applicable rules. ETKnet processes these distributed rules and rule structures uniformly as web services, thus achieving event-triggered knowledge sharing.