IMPS - a case study in PSM and ontology use on the WWW

ents. These limitations arebypassed in an Internet-based architecture such as IMPS, which makes full use of emergingknowledge sharing standards (KIF, KQML, Java etc).Traditionally, a library of PSMs is used in conjunction with a library of ontologies with which toinstantiate them. Despite the increasing size of existing ontology resources, such as Ontolingua,it must be recognized that in order to provide usable ontologies for a significant range of domainareas, the library would have to...