Monday, September 25, 2006

ACUITy application - General Electric

'Adaptive Work-Centered User Interface Technology (ACUITy) is now available on the SourceForge open source repository'

Release information - http://acuity.sourceforge.net/

I'm very interested in this semantic web application. I've seen this presented at the The Hewlett-Packard Jena conference Bristol UK. The paper is at http://jena.hpl.hp.com/juc2006/proceedings/crapo/paper.pdf and the presentation is at http://jena.hpl.hp.com/juc2006/proceedings/crapo/slides.ppt. The reasons that I'm interested in ACUITy are that it's a practical tool based on semantic web technology, such as Protégé and Jena, that can be used with minimal programming effort. This means it's relevant to my PhD research of using semantic web techniques to enable end-user programming. Also it looks particularly useful as a way of allowing engineers who create models using spreadsheets, to create shared models on a semantic web network.

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