With the objective of ultimately providing tools and technologies for facilitating logical connectivity for manufacturing applications in an NII environment, this proposal involves research in the areas of: agent-based mediators, shared ontologies, conversion libraries, scalability, and automated reading of information from paper and other traditional media.Commercial Applications:For enhancing the capability for seamless integration of manufacturing applications both on an intraorganizational and interorganizational basis; and for reducing the cost involved in accessing and disseminating manufacturing data in an NII environment.
