By Winston Smith
 

FACS Development Group

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Noah Zimmerman, B.S.

Software Engineer

Research

My current research is focused on developing general purpose, scaleable domain constraints for Protege knowledge acquisition that a user can author. The goal is for Protégé knowledge acquisition (instance populating through user-definable forms) to be as error-checked and elegant as Protégé schema definition (class & slot populating). This work utilizes the Jess plug-in for Protege to leverage the incremental evaluation power of the Rete algorithm. The requirements are being modeled through FacsXpert (developed by Lee Herzenberg, Stephen Meehan, James Tung, David Parks, Wayne Moore and other researchers in the Herzenberg Lab), however the goal is to create a solution general enough to apply to the Protege community at large.

 

 

Publications:

Zimmerman, N., Schlenoff C., and Balakirsky, S. "Implementing a Rule-Based System to Represent Decision Criteria for On-Road Autonomous Navigation." Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium: Knowledge Representation and Ontologies for Autonomous Systems, Stanford, CA. March 2004.

Zimmerman, N., Schlenoff C., and Balakirsky, S. "Performance Evaluation of Tools and Techniques for Representing Cost-Based Decision Criteria for On-Road Autonomous Navigation." Proceedings of the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD. September, 2003.

Schlenoff, C., Welsch L., Madhavan R., and Zimmerman N. "Towards Measuring the Performance of Architectural Components of Autonomous Vehicular Systems." Proceedings of the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD. August, 2002.


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