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We view an Intelligent Information System (IIS) as composed of a unified knowledge base, database, and model base. This allows an IIS to provide responses to user queries regardless of whether the query process involves a data retrieval, an inference, a computational method, a problem solving module, or some combination of these. The unified integration of these components in a distributed environment for forest ecosystem management is the focus of our continuing research.
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Potter, W.D., Deng, X., Somasekar, S., Liu, S., Rauscher, H.M., Thomasma, S. (2000). Forest Ecosystem Management via the NED Intelligent Information System. In: Logananthara, R., Palm, G., Ali, M. (eds) Intelligent Problem Solving. Methodologies and Approaches. IEA/AIE 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1821. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45049-1_76
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