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IURON: SUCCINCT FORMAL PROPOSITION

ROY S. SCHESTOWITZ
IMAGING SCIENCE AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
UNITED KINGDOM

Version 1.0: An initial project overview

Abstract:

Search engine technologies have been discussed to death and further developed endlessly in the past decade. However, such engines have no so-called "thirst for knowledge", but rather a thirst for text. We continue to live in an age where best results for a query are produced given an input comprising keywords. The outcome, rather than answers or self-tailored content, is merely a linear collection of pages, whose static content resembles the keywords. There is no way to guarantee, nonetheless, that such pages will provide the desired information or provide information that is credible.

Iuron is set to become a collection of tools for knowledge engines, which are intended to crawl the World Wide Web. The aim is to create a semantic entity that captures facts from a large number of pages, thereby providing an intelligent front-end for user search. Results are generated 'on the fly' based on acquired knowledge and are solely intended to serve individual users.