Cobricks - Community Bricks

The goal in the project field Cobricks is to support communities. We are building a generic agent-based support platform for communities (Cobricks project) and are using this platform in several application projects.

For more information on the core project see the Cobricks Web pages.

Cobricks is TUMs part of the efforts in the IMC group (Information Management for Communities) which was formed as a research collaboration of the Institute for Software Technology at University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich (UniBwM) with the Computer Science Group XI at Technische Universität München (TUM), in order to explore current research in the domain of agent-based and distributed Knowledge Management for Communities and to apply this technology to several applications.

Work in Cobricks is currently going on in the following topics:

• Agent/component architecture for community support applications
• Ontology support for knowledge management
• Privacy and user profile usage in community support applications

Web pages for IMC/Cobricks sub projects:

• Cobricks / PortalToolkit Framework

  A generic (agent-based) community support platform - "bricks for community support systems"

• IDRepository

  Distributed identity (user profile) management (in Cobricks and beyond).

• Informationsdrehscheibe Informatik

  A Web-based online community for the Informatics Department at TUM

• CoItem - Community Items Tool

  An application for exchanging information in a small community of practice/interest

• CoMovie - Movie Recommender

  A movie recommender application based on collaborative filtering

• Caiman - Ontology Mappings

  Semantic Interoperability Services for Community document repositories

• PACE - Privacy

  Privacy in Agent-based Community Support and E-commerce

• InReM

  Interoperable Relationship Management

• COSMOS

• TiBiD

• SFB582