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The emergence of semantic web will result in an enormous amount of knowledge base resources on the web. In this paper, a generic Knowledge Base Grid Architecture (KB-Grid) for building large-scale knowledge systems on the semantic web is presented. KB-Grid suggests a paradigm that emphasizes how to organize, discover, utilize, and manage web knowledge base resources. Four principal components are under development: a semantic browser for retrieving and browsing semantically enriched information, a knowledge server acting as the web container for knowledge, an ontology server for managing web ontologies, and a knowledge base directory server acting as the registry and catalog of KBs. Also a referential model of knowledge service and the mechanisms required for semantic communication within KB-Grid are defined. To verify the design rationale underlying the KB-Grid, an implementation of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is described.
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This work is supported in part by the Foundational Technology and Research Program, China Ministry of Science and Technology, and the National Hi-Tech R&D 863 Program of China under Grant No.2001 AA414320, and the National Hi-Tech R&D 863 Program of China under Grant No. 2001AA113142.
WU ZhaoHui received the Diploma in computer science from Zhejiang University in 1988 and is a member of Sino-Germany jointly train Ph.D. program from 1991 to 1993. He is currently a professor in the College of Computer Science of Zhejiang University and the deputy director of the Research Institute of System Engineering of Computer, Zhejiang University. He is a member of the Committee of Experts of the National Hi-Tech R&D Program of China. His research interests cover the range of distributed artificial intelligence, grid computing, biometrics, embedded system etc. He has published about 100 papers in high-level international conferences and journals.
CHEN HuaJun received a Diploma from Zhejiang University in 2000. Now he is a Ph.D. candidate majoring in computer science in Zhejiang University. His research interests include semantic web, grid computing, and description logic.
XU JieFeng received a Diploma in computer science from Zhejiang University in 2001. His research interests include semantic web, grid computing and Petri net.
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Wu, Z., Chen, H. & Xu, J. Knowledge base grid: A generic grid architecture for semantic web. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. 18, 462–473 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02948920
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