The Autonomic Semantic Desktop: helping users cope with information system complexity

Abstract

In this paper we present the architecture for the autonomic semantic desktop, an self managing application designed to hide system complexity and alleviate users from burdening and time consuming management tasks. The proposed architecture is founded in the basic principles of autonomic systems, i.e. ,the set of self* attributes. We introduce a semantic layer to the architecture, to allow machines to process and exchange information without requiring human mediation. The underlying conceptual model used in this layer is ontology, currently the lingua franca in application on the semantic Web