ACACIA : Knowledge acquisition for aided design through agent interaction (project-team)

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ACACIA has been dissolved on 12/31/2006
It has been replaced by EDELWEISS

Project-Team Presentation

This multidisciplinary project-team aims at offering methodological and software support (i.e. models, methods and tools) for knowledge management (i.e., for building, managing and distributing a corporate memory).

Research themes

• Support for Corporate Memory Construction:
  • Management of Multi-expertise : Knowledge Acquisition and Management from Multiple Experts ; Management of Multiple Knowledge Models, Ontologies or Viewpoints.
  • Exploitation and Management of Links between Formalized Knowledge and Documents : Knowledge Management from Texts ; Management of Links between Knowledge Models (or Ontologies) and Documents.
  • Project Memory and Technical Memory in Concurrent Design.
• Support for Corporate Memory Distribution and Use:
  • Knowledge Servers on the Web or in an Intranet : Tools for Interrogation and Browsing in Expertise Models and in Documents (WebCOKACE); Support to "Intelligent" Information-Retrieval in an heterogeneous, distributed corporate memory, guided by exploitation of knowledge models or ontologies.

International and industrial relations

• Collaboration with Aérospatiale (aéronautics), Cnet (network design), Dassault-Aviation (aeronautics), Dassault Electronics, DCN, Inrets (traffic accident analysis) and Renault (automobile industry).
• Participation in the Esprit Working Group ModelAge.
• Collaboration and contacts with laboratories in Europe (Amsterdam Univ., Genoa Univ., Open Univ, Free Univ. of Amsterdam and Brussel), America (USC/ISI, Stanford) and Australia (CSIRO, Griffith University).

Scientific leader

Rose DIENG
+33 4 92 38 78 10
Rose.Dieng@inria.fr
Secretary : +33 4 97 15 53 17