A question to start the new year…

Quite often when we talk about Semantic Grid we observe that in practice a little bit of semantics goes a long way – the real Semantic Grid deployments haven’t made extensive use of advanced techniques.  Also some of our predicted areas haven’t taken off as we expected 5 years ago – like agents and e-Science.

It’s easy to see where we are now.  But where are we going in this respect…I’d like to ask one simple question and get the views of people on the list:

Which techniques from AI will we be using in e-Science in the future – and when?

What do you think…agents?  Reasoning (where?), planning, knowledge acquisition, machine learning, etc etc…?  Robots?

Happy New Year! J

-- Dave