Employing knowledge artifacts to develop time-depending expert systems

Abstract

The integration of heterogeneous information gathered from wearable devices, like watches, bracelets and smartphones, is becoming a very important research trend. The Expert Systems’ technology should be able to face this interesting challenge, promoting the development of innovative frameworks runnable on wearables and mobile operating systems. In particular, users and domain experts could be able to interact directly, minimizing the role of knowledge engineer and promoting the real–time updating of knowledge bases when necessary. This paper presents the KAFKA approach to this topic, based on the implementation of the Knowledge Artifact conceptual model supported by Android OS devices.