SWARMS: A Platform for Domain Knowledge Management and Applications

Abstract

This chapter describes the architecture and the main features of SWARMS, a platform for domain knowledge management. The platform aims at providing services for 1) efficiently storing and accessing the ontological information; 2) visualizing the networking structure in the ontological data; 3) searching and mining the semantic data. One advantage of the system is that it provides a suite of components for not only supporting efficient semantic data storage but also searching and mining the semantics. Another advantage is that the system supports visualization in the process of search and mining, which would greatly help a normal user to understand the knowledge inside the ontological data. SWARMS can be easily customized to adapt to different domains. The system has been applied to several domains, such as News, Software, and Social Network. In this chapter, we will also present the performance evaluations of the system.