KRAFT Home Page at Aberdeen

Project goal: to develop a combination of database and artificial intelligence technology to allow scientists and engineers to find and exploit knowledge available on the Internet. KRAFT is a close collaboration between universities and industry, funded jointly by the EPSRC and BT.

EPSRC Final Report Summary

Selected Papers on KRAFT

• KRAFT: Knowledge Fusion from Distributed Databases and Knowledge Bases (Postscript format)
  Provides an overview of the KRAFT project (presented at the Eighth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA'97)
• The KRAFT Architecture for Knowledge Fusion and Transformation (Postscript format) (PDF format)
  Describes the KRAFT architecture (presented at Expert Systems 1999 conference
  - winner of Best Technical Paper award)
• KRAFT: An Agent Architecture for Knowledge Fusion (PDF format)
  (to appear in International Journal on Intelligent Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS), late 2000)
• Application of KRAFT in Data Service Network Design (PDF format)
  Presents in detail the KRAFT testbed application in telecommunications service provision (a revised version appears in the BT Technology Journal, vol 17, no 4, October 1999)
• Ontological Structures for Knowledge Sharing (Postscript format)
  Describes role of ontologies in KRAFT (published in New Review of Information Networking, 1997)
• Developing Finite Domain Constraints - A Data Model Approach (Postscript format) (PDF format)
  Describes the KRAFT constraint fusion technology (presented at Computational Logic CL2000 conference, pages 448-462, Springer-Verlag (LNAI series), 2000)
• Finding and Moving Constraints in Cyberspace (Postscript format)
  Describes use of mobile constraints in KRAFT (presented at AAAI-99 Sping Symposium on Intelligent Agents in Cyberspace)
• KRAFT: Supporting Virtual Organisations through Knowledge Fusion (PDF format)
  Describes application of KRAFT in business-to-business e-commerce (presented at AAAI-99 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce)

The following links provide further information about the KRAFT project.

Project description

Project personnel

Full list of public KRAFT-related papers (maintained at Liverpool)

Related projects

This page is the general project home page, at Aberdeen. The following links are to home pages of consortium members:

Cardiff KRAFT home page

Liverpool KRAFT home page