KIX stands for eXtensible Integrated Knowledge. KIX is a distributed decision support framework for collaborating stakeholders.

KIX is designed to provide strong work flow support during decision making in collaborative situations. Thus KIX is intended to become a pervasive tool for decision support, when the details of the decisions are of considerable importance.

Typical application areas for KIX are:

• Large science collaborations - such as CERN, ISS, EFDA-JET and ITER
• Science collaborations in general
• Drafting of legislation
• Preparation of new standards
• Collaborative engineering in general
• Contract preparation
• Tender preparation
• Contract execution - coordination of stakeholders in supply chains
• Collaborative preparation of budgets
• Collaborative management of distributed websites - e.g. when authority is distributed among stakeholders.
• The MetaAgility website is managed via a KIX plugin - Wiki2Html.

KIX is based on RDF triple database technology. KIX is distributed by MetaAgility through open source (see also the KixFw open source project page at SourceForge).

For more information on KIX see

• the KIX overview,
• the KixFw project at SourceForge,
• the KixFw presentation website at SourceForge,
• some KIX screen shots at SourceForge,
• the KIX installation instructions at SourceForge,
• the KIX white paper at SourceForge,
• the KixFw repository for KIX sources,
• the KixFw blog,
• KixFw at OhLoh,
• KixFw at SourceWell,
• and the MetaAgility Software Distribution page.

KIX - the federated collaboration
and knowledge integration tool.

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