Broker's lounge-an environment for multi-dimensional user-adaptive knowledge management

Abstract

The Broker's Lounge is a shell for knowledge structuring and dynamic user interface generation which supports the personalisation of both information structures and user interfaces, emphasising options for context change and multi-dimensional constraint propagation. Two major applications have been developed so far: ELFI, an advisor that manages knowledge about research programs in Germany such that proposers can identify appropriate funding schemes; and MarketMonitor, a tool that helps companies monitor the web pages of competitors, suppliers, and customers for early detection of changes in the market situation.