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Integrated Reasoning

Integrated Reasoning

The Integrated Reasoning (IR) Group, one of the NRC Institute for Information Technology's 14 research groups, is located in Ottawa, Ontario. Formed in 1995, the IR Group focuses on research, development, and application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

Current Projects
ADAM
CBR
BioIntelligence
BioMine
FuzzyCLIPS
IDS
IO2
FuzzyJ Toolkit
KSD
WILDMiner

IR Group staff interests include the automation and improvement of the corporate decision making processes, the discovery and representation of knowledge from data, and the development of tools to facilitate this decision making and discovery.

The Integrated Reasoning Group recognizes that:

  • to solve complex real-world problems it is often necessary to integrate multiple reasoning techniques and algorithms.
  • effective reasoning systems must be integrated with organizations' existing information technology infrastructure.
  • viable real-world knowledge-based systems must integrate the tools and techniques for knowledge-based management (machine learning, knowledge management) with the tools and techniques that apply that knowledge.

Key Capabilities

  • machine learning
  • data mining, data visualization
  • soft computing (fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms)
  • rule-based reasoning
  • case-based reasoning

Additional Information

Research Contact

Robert Orchard (Bob)
Group Leader
Integrated Reasoning

NRC Institute for Information Technology
1200 Montreal Road
Building M-50, Room 366
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6
Telephone: +1 (613) 993-8557
Fax: +1 (613) 952-0215
E-mail: Robert.Orchard@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Business Contact

Dr. George Forester
Business Development Officer
Business Development Office, NCR

NRC Institute for Information Technology
1200 Montreal Road
Building M-50, Room 203
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6
Telephone: +1 (613) 993-3478
Fax: +1 (613) 952-0074
E-mail: George.Forester@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca


Date Modified: 2004-06-25
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