A knowledge fusion toolkit for decision making

This paper describes an application-independent Knowledge Fusion Toolkit to support decision-making in intelligent assistance, early warning, and security systems. The toolkit is realized on the basis of an industrial strength Java Enterprise technology, providing a runtime environment for modularized knowledge components, which contain all the application dependent functionality. We discuss here the toolkit's architecture as well as a use case from a research project carried out at Fraunhofer FOKUS.