Internet tool to find answers to poorly defined questions

SmartNet

© ITC Software, 2003

www.itcsoftware.com

World Wide Web

Internet is

World Wide Data Storage.

Internet is huge.

Internet becomes larger and larger day after day.

Internet contains billions of data units

However, these data units combine a heap of

unstructured information. An Internet user

feels quite lonely facing the problem of

finding an answer to his question. At that

point he is absolutely sure, that the answer

exists.

So, the user meets the “problem of

understanding” that is quite usual for

Internet.

We know how to solve the problem

Our approach is the only realistic way to find the answer to any question of any Internet-user

Our method overcomes all existing approaches

Existing approaches to solve the

problem of understanding inside

Internet are based on natural language

request recognition and focus on finding

the exact meaning of the question.

We focus on finding the exact answer to

the question.

Natural language request recognition is not enough and it is

even not necessary

Having understood the question, one

needs to find the answer.

In reality Internet knowledge is the

aggregated knowledge of all Internet users.

Our method is based on collecting,

processing and storing of this aggregated

knowledge

SmartNet is an ASP-module to be added to any informational system that deals with

structured data

“Structured data” means information on some objects, each of them having a number of attributes. There is a great number of examples: books in the library, goods at the store, products at the commodity exchange, securities at the stock exchange, air flight tickets, data in any structured informational resources (e.g. Internet sites about pet breeds, sports, etc.).

User has an ability to build Smart Query for the information he is

interested in:

After creating the query user asks the Net:

The user’s question could be poorly defined or even formulated in a natural language:

All the questions are automatically transferred to the Expert’s Floor:

At this floor all the users that had registered as experts can give their opinion on the issue:

User gets the opinion of other Net users on the item he is interested in:

Easily managed

SmartNet is easy to use and it is

comfortably managed by the

special Remote Control

First main objective of SmartNet use:

To find an answer to an uncertain question.

There could be a number of answers ofdifferent importance to the same question. User is free to make the final selection himself. This feature is of a special interest in regards to data which is being permanently renewed (e.g. “enough RAM for computer” is not a constant value. It changes approximately in one-two months). User receives the absolutely perfect and up-to-date answer to such questions.

Second main objective of SmartNet use:

To store the answer(s) found.

The SmartNet dictionary is ever-growing. Next time the same question appears, the answer is ready instantly.

SmartNet provides the abilities to renew old, not up-to-date answers in a natural way.

Third main objective of SmartNet use:

To define a fuzzy-logic request and to translate it into the search language of basic data storage.

A user makes his request in the most convenient way.

Moreover, he can formulate the request in a natural language, and SmartNet will work it out.

Additional competitive advantages of SmartNet :

SmartNet has advanced means of statistical data gathering and storage for further analytical use.

SmartNet is user-friendly.

SmartNet has WAP-ready Web interface.

Properly built machine works properly

Our method is based on

modern mathematics:

fuzzy algebra theory

We used up-to-date software to build SmartNet:

SmartNet is developed with the

best and most proper software

instruments: Oracle 8i and JAVA.

Thus, SmartNet is efficient, reliable,

well scalable and absolutely

platform independent.

Prospects

We are ready to apply our fuzzy

requests recognition method to any

Internet task which meets the terms and

concepts of the “problem of

understanding”

ITC Software is an advanced information technology solutions provider, focused on the global commercial and scientific markets.

With over 4047 software engineers in the Americas, Europe, Russia and Asia, and a host of world-renowned scientists at, inter alia, Harvard and MIT, ITC Software’s services range from research & development in finance, bioinformatics and FEA engineering, to cutting-edge custom software development and maintenance services in most industry verticals, to the turnkey establishment of Offshore IT Centers.

ITC Software has won numerous international awards and its centers are ISO 9001:2000 certified and CMMI level 4 pre-certified. Pricing is extremely competitive for both complex scientific applications such as bioinformatics and biomechanics, and commercial software development projects.

We hope you enjoyed our presentation !

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