It discusses how simple the individual components for internet hosted business groupware are and how information leverage with Prolog can multiply the productivity of existing computing infrastructure, thus providing a wide range of opportunities for pushing management and their consulting partners. Oskar Bartenstein is currently president of IF Computer Japan. Over the past decade he has been working mainly with major corporate clients on the deployment of industrial and commercial Prolog based systems in Japan, Korea, SE Asia and Oceania. He spent time at Technische Universitaet Muenchen, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and The University of Tokyo from where he holds a doctorate in Information Engineering. Research interest is machines that combine the processing of information, energy and materials.
Recent work includes commercial emotion engineering and web based strategic information systems.
This technology was developed to address medical problems but is based on general principles which can be applied in many other fields. The talk will review the research background to PROforma and discuss a number of applications. He joined the staff of the UK's Medical Research Council in 1975 and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in 1981, where he established the Advanced Computation Laboratory. This laboratory has wide interests in AI but has always had a particular commitment to logic programming concepts and technologies. Therefore, it is expected that advanced computer-based support for managing and processing knowledge will shape the pattern of computer applications of the next decades.