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EECS Fall 1996 Catalogue Supplement

6.966 Know-How Infrastructures (G)

TR 2, 24-114; MF 1, 2, and 3, 24-112
4-0-8
Prof. Carl Hewitt, NE43-789, x5873

Introduction to know-how infrastructures (KI), including study of availability infrastructures and semantic infrastructures. Availability methods for accessibility, immediacy, responsiveness, transparency. Semantic methods for operating, assessing, predicting, planning. Using negotiating, coordinating, cooperating, collaborating, competing. Semantics of object component systems for KI. Managing change: including interfaces and operations. Persistence and naming issues. Introduction to reifying participation, including predicting and planning future participation and assessing past participation. Using reification to influence participation. Applications of KI.

Suitable for computer science graduate students and advanced undergraduates.

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