Knowledge Technology through Functional Layered Intelligence

The Internet and other various networks are growing into an interconnection environment of information pools that are often overwhelming. Knowledge technology has been developing intensely, however with limited success: the concepts such as knowledge, information, and data are still amorphous; limitations are re-confirmed in the predominant formalist-reductionist model and lack of organic attributes; there is a lack of coordination and interoperability. These dimensions are reviewed here over many prominent KT efforts. To address the limitations, an architecture reference model called Functional Layered Intelligence (FLI) is introduced then. Knowledge technology is then presented as a subset of the FLI model.