From: Dieter Fensel <dieter.fensel@deri.org>
To: David Brown <dcb@cs.wpi.edu>
Subject: Re: Problem Solving Methods: dead?
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:23:24 +0200

Hi Dave,

thanks for asking. I would like to provide you with an elaborated
answer (I may even use your question as a starter for a contribution I
am going to write for IEEE IS).  Therefore it may take a bit since I
am currently very busy with the first deadline of the new funding
scheme in Europe. For the meanwhile, you may want to take a look at
www.wsmo.org. It is actually a major piece on how we want to provide
automated problem solving at a web scale.

Thanks for asking (and give me a bit of a time in answering your
question),

Dieter

At 03:29 11.04.2007, you wrote:

>Dear Professor Fensel
>
>I am currently teaching a seminar course which traces the field of
>Problem Solving Methods as it transitions from Expert Systems to the
>sort of work described in your 2000 book "Problem-Solving Methods:
>Understanding, Development, Description, and Reuse" (I use selected
>chapters in the course). I think that there is a huge amount to learn
>from that collected work.
>
>However I find it very difficult to tell the students what the next
>step was -- other than that many people moved into Semantic Web
>research.  That effort seems to abandon PSMs and focuses on Knowledge
>Representation again.
>
>Is there still work on PSMs?  Is there good work integrating PSMs with
>the web?  Or has it all been branded a failure and largely forgotten?
>
>I'd appreciate any thoughts or pointers.
>
>Many thanks
>             Dave Brown
>
>
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