The DIET Project

Overview

DIET was a European collaborative research project, part of the Universal Information Ecosystems initiative (http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fethome.htm). The aim of the project was to use a bottom-up design approach to implement and study a novel information processing and management framework.

Contributors

The partners of the project were:

• BT Exact, United Kingdom
  • Paul Marrow - project leader
  • Cefn Hoile
  • Fang Wang
  • Erwin Bonsma
• Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Germany
• Technical University of Crete, Greece
• Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Project results

Within BT Exact, we produced the following during the project:

• DIET platform
• Self-Organising Communities^? for arranging users according to their interests
• Distributed Adaptive Scheduling^? for automatically scheduling meetings

The DIET platform has also been used together with SWAN to develop several PeerToPeer^? prototype applications:

Links

• The DIET Agents website hosts the Open Sourced DIET platform
• The external DIET website provides some more information about DIET