Knowledge Management Toolkits

Question

I am writing software (in Java) that requires a mechanism for maintaining for a group of simulated people (agents):

• Facts they know
• Things they believe
• What they think others are doing
• What they think others think

I call something like this Knowledge Management (I know this term means different things in different fields, I'm talking about simulation software).

What is the best toolkit / library / package to use for this?

I'm looking for something written in Java. Open Source is best but not required.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Your data looks like FOAF (http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/). I would store this in a RDF datastore (e.g. see the JENA API http://jena.sourceforge.net/)

Answer 2

Also other java rdf framework is sesame (www.openrdf.org). Both jena and sesame are mature projects.