The Autonomic Semantic Desktop: helping users cope with information system complexity

Author

Breítman, Karin ; Felicíssimo, Carolina Howard ; Truszkowski, Walt

Author_Institution

Pontificia Univ. Catolica do Rio de Janeiro

fYear

2006

fDate

27-30 March 2006

Firstpage

158

Lastpage

164

Abstract

In this paper we present the architecture for the autonomic semantic desktop, an self managing application designed to hide system complexity and alleviate users from burdening and time consuming management tasks. The proposed architecture is founded in the basic principles of autonomic systems, i.e. ,the set of self* attributes. We introduce a semantic layer to the architecture, to allow machines to process and exchange information without requiring human mediation. The underlying conceptual model used in this layer is ontology, currently the lingua franca in application on the semantic Web

Keywords

information systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); semantic Web; autonomic semantic desktop; autonomic system; hide system complexity; information system complexity; self managing application; self* attributes; semantic Web; semantic layer; time consuming management task; Humans; Indexing; Information management; Information systems; Management information systems; Mediation; NASA; Ontologies; Power system management; Semantic Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, 2006. EASe 2006. Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Potsdam

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2544-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EASE.2006.15

Filename

1607340