SYSTEMS INTEGRATION 2005 368 An Intelligent Distributed System for Information Exchange

Web-based collaborating platform has been already massively used in enterprises and agencies. Integration of existing information technology systems can be difficult as often they were designed to work in isolation. Because of this, communication and collaboration between enterprises and agencies sometimes isn’t possible. Based on the distributed information processing technology, this article describes the Distributed Information Exchanging Engine by analyzing the characteristics and patterns, using the knowledge management and the semantic analysis theory and designing with the Web Service technology. By designing the knowledge catalog tree and the evaluation of degree of relations between subject concepts, the Engine brings on the solution to integrate services and share information between different regions and different computer systems. The Engine offers affordable solutions to work between different enterprises and agencies. The system has been already applied in China International Science and Technology Cooperation Network. 1 The foreword Information technology, especially the network technology, is rapidly developing. The enterprises and the government agencies realize that the Internet is not only a common used information-sharing tool