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Conclusions<br />

The Help-Exchange system is an experimental system <strong>in</strong>tended to provide an alternative to other approaches<br />

such as newsgroups for network<strong>in</strong>g researchers and educators who wish to support each other by each offer<strong>in</strong>g<br />

to provide assistance <strong>in</strong> their unique area of expertise. The system is web-based and utilizes a taxonomy of<br />

discipl<strong>in</strong>es to help connect users with questions to other users who might provide answers. The primary<br />

advantage of the system is the greatly reduced email traffic which is often a deterrent to use of other<br />

approaches. This paper has described some of the unique features of this system <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g experience <strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>itial<br />

alpha and beta test<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

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[Gruber 93] Gruber, T.R. (1993) “Toward pr<strong>in</strong>ciples for the design of ontologies used for knowledge shar<strong>in</strong>g.” In Formal<br />

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[Losleben & Bon<strong>in</strong>g 95] Losleben, P. & Bon<strong>in</strong>g, D. (1995) “A New Research Paradigm us<strong>in</strong>g Internet Collaboration or<br />

Build<strong>in</strong>g a National Research Enterprise,” TCAD Symposium, Hierarchical Technology CAD--Process, Device and<br />

Circuits, Aug. 1995, Staford, CA.<br />

Acknowledgments<br />

The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under Contract<br />

DABT63-94-C-0055.

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