It is clear today how much people are dependent on digital information sources, where networks are the prevalent organisational structure. As this dependency grows then so will the demand for a higher quality of information, where we are now moving into a service-based environment. This book will describe different aspects of such an environment and is both important and timely for future Internet-based or mobile information networks. This book combines the topics of Artificial Intelligence, service-based systems and distributed knowledge management. It hopes to give a broad overview and introduction to various aspects of knowledge-based networks, with respect to existing mechanisms for representing and using such systems. After reading this book the reader should have a good idea of the sort of systems and algorithms that can be used to organise and use knowledge in today’s world and where we might be going to in the future.
The second half of the book will discuss some research ideas undertaken by the author. This is in the area of self-organisation and reasoning, through the bio-inspired method of stigmergy. The research will propose different levels of reasoning that can be performed over an information network and will ultimately offer an architecture that will allow the network to ‘think’. Similar techniques could also be applied to a local neural network-like structure.
Some of this work has been tested and conclusions can be made, while some is still for the future. This will hopefully provide useful research avenues for the interested reader to follow. There is also an extensive literature review and open source code with which to build service-based networks.
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