A cooperative multi-agent platform for invention based on patent document analysis and ontology

被引:60
作者
Soo, Von-Wun
Lin, Szu-Yin [1 ]
Yang, Shih-Yao
Lin, Shih-Neng
Cheng, Shian-Luen
机构
[1] Natl Tsing Hua Univ, Dept Comp Sci, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
[2] Natl Univ Kaohsiung, Dept Comp Sci & Informat Engn, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan
关键词
patent document analysis; patent claims information extraction; cooperative invention; multi-agent systems; ontology;
D O I
10.1016/j.eswa.2006.01.014
中图分类号
TP18 [人工智能理论];
学科分类号
081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;
摘要
We propose a cooperative multi-agent platform to support the invention process based on the patent document analysis. It helps industrial knowledge managers to retrieve and analyze existing patent documents and extract structure information from patents with the aid of ontology and natural language processing techniques. It allows the invention process to be carried out through the cooperation and coordination among software agents delegated by the various domain experts in the complex industrial R&D environment. Furthermore, it integrates the patent document analysis with the inventive problem solving method known as TRIZ method that can suggest invention directions based on the heuristics or principles to resolve the contradictions among design objectives and engineering parameters. We chose the patent invention for chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) as our case study. However, the platform and techniques could be extended to most cooperative invention domains. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:766 / 775
页数:10
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