Research on knowledge media, their international distribution, and their management and retrieval for the construction, the editing, and the reuse of knowlege.

(a)知识媒体：该项目成功开发了多种知识表示媒体组件，作为在IntelligentPad内核系统架构之上的pad。这些pad构成了一种集成的媒体技术，用于以可重复使用和可编辑的形式发布各种知识片段。作为Intelligentpad向3D/4D媒体技术的扩展，该项目扩展了IntelligentBox以提供实时渲染功能，并开发了基于组件的应用程序开发框架，不仅用于计算机动画，还用于交互式信息可视化和科学可视化系统。(b)国际分发基础设施/会计和许可机制：该项目发展了国际分发基础设施，以便在全世界人民之间分发和交换知识片段。该系统可以将任意的pad和box嵌入到任意的网页中进行发布。More项目还开发了市场pad，用户只需将他们的pad和盒子拖放到这个特殊的pad上，就可以将它们发布到国际市场上。它还提出了会计和许可机制，以保证每个pad提供商对任意用户的每次使用收费。(c)实地评价和检索服务：该项目已将其成果技术开放给公众使用。然而，通过其在世界范围内的实际使用，对其促进文化分布和阅读以及加速文化演变的潜力的评价仅限于不超过50个地点的小规模实验。针对从分布中大量积累的知识碎片中搜索所需组件或复合对象的检索服务，本项目开发了一种新的检索方法，利用pad组合结构的叠加编码来定义pad的签名序列。它还开发了一个检索系统，允许我们添加一个新的搜索功能，作为一个pad来处理新的知识类型。它也为如何从分布中的大量词条中提取编辑相似性，以及如何将提取的元知识应用于新知识的创造提供了理论基础。在图像检索方面，发展了两种方法；一种是利用分形维数来定义图像的特征，另一种是提出了一种新的特殊的局部特征来进行图像的形状匹配。在文件图像的字符串搜索方面，该项目开发了一个检索系统，可以处理作为图像输入的日文、中文、韩文和装饰德文文件。少

(a) Knowledge Media : The project has successfully developed varieties of knowledge representation media components as pads on top of the IntelligentPad kernel system architecture. These pads constitute an integrated media technology for the publication of various knowledge fragments in reusable and reeditable forms. As an extension of Intelligentpad to a 3D/4D media technology, the project has extended the IntelligentBox to provide real time-rendering capabilities, and has developed component-based application development frameworks not only for computer animations, but also for interactive information visualization and scientific visualization systems.(b) International distribution infrastructure/accounting and licensing mechanism : The project has developed an international pad distribution infrastructure for the distribution and exchange of knowledge fragments among people all over the world. The system can embed arbitrary pads and boxed in arbitrary web pages to publish them. The … More project has also developed the marketplace pad that enables users to publish their pads and boxes to an international marketplace just by drag-and-dropping them onto this special pad. It has also proposed the accounting and licensing mechanism that guarantees each pad provider to charge every use of his or her pads by arbitrary users.(c) Field evaluation and retrieval services : The project has made its achievement technologies open to the public for use. However, the evaluation of its potentiality to promote the cultural distribution and reeding, and to accelerate the cultural evolution through its world-wide actual use was limited to a small scale experiment with no more than 50 sites. As to the retrieval service that searches a huge accumulation of knowledge fragments in distribution for desired components or composite objects, the project has developed a new search method using the superimposed coding of pad composition structures to define a signature flle of pads. It also developed a retrieval system that allows us to add a new search function as a pad to cope with a new type of knowledge. It has also given a theoretical basis on how to extract editorial similarities among a huge pile of pads in distribution, and how to apply this extracted meta knowledge to the creation of new knowledge. As to the image retrieval, it has developed two methods ; one uses the fractal dimension to define image signatures, while the other has proposed a new special local feature that can be used for the shape matching. As to the string search of document images, the project has developed a retrieval system that can cope with Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and decorative German documents that are input as images. Less