Distributed Expert-Based Information Systems: An interdisciplinary approach

Nicholas J. Belkin; Christine L. Borgman; Helen M. Brooks; Tom Bylander; W. Bruce Crofts; Penny Daniels; Scott Deerwester; Edward A. Fox; Peter Ingwersen; Roy Rada; Karen Sparck Jones; Roger Thompson; Donald Walker

doi:10.1016/0306-4573(87)90109-9

Distributed Expert-Based Information Systems: An interdisciplinary approach

Nicholas J. Belkin, Christine L. Borgman, Helen M. Brooks, Tom Bylander, W. Bruce Crofts, Penny Daniels, Scott Deerwester, Edward A. Fox, Peter Ingwersen^*, Roy Rada, Karen Sparck Jones, Roger Thompson, Donald Walker

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Abstract

An international workshop on Distributed Expert-Based Information Systems (DEBIS) was held at Rutgers University in March 1987. The aims of the workshop were to discuss problems and issues in the design of such systems, and to develop research and implementation strategies for them. The workshop attendees discussed both models and implementations of DEBIS. A prototypical implementation operates on one or more workstations and connects an end-user to an information source after invoking multiple expert functions. The design of these functions depends in part on careful study of end-user and search intermediary behavior. Such studies suggest a dozen basic functions which must be incorporated in a DEBIS. including ones to model the user, generate search strategies, and manage the interface. The favored methods of implementation use blackboards to simplify communications between functional modules. Two large systems, I³R and CODER, have been developed which illustrate the complexity but also the feasibility of DEBIS.

Original language	English
Journal	Information Processing and Management
Volume	23
Issue number	5
Pages (from-to)	395-409
Number of pages	15
ISSN	0306-4573
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-4573(87)90109-9
Publication status	Published - 1987
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

blackboards
distributed artificial intelligence
distributed systems
expert systems
Information systems
search intermediaries
user models
workstations

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