World Champion of Computer Cooking

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany -

- International Computer Cooking Contest: Empolis Software Powered the Prize Winner

“Empolis can cook!?” - Actually not, and Empolis is not in competition with television cooking shows, either. However, at this year’s 2nd International Computer Cooking Contest (CCC), a virtual cooking contest in the realm of bits and bytes, Empolis did take part in the cooking by powering the prize winner with its award winning software. The event is designed to showcase what computers can do in an everyday discipline. The event, which recently took place at the International Conference for Case-Based Reasoning in Seattle, the “CookIIS” computer system, powered by Empolis won. The prize-winning system is based on the Empolis Research & Discovery solution and was developed by the University of Hildesheim. Empolis Research & Discovery was recently named as “Trend Setting Product of the Year 2009″ by KMWorld.

During the CCC, teams are required to develop a software system that can compete with professional chefs in planning a menu that combines a pre-determined set of ingredients in a live contest. The initial input is a collection of cooking recipes. In a live show, the systems are challenged with previously unknown tasks and ingredients, the goal: make menu suggestions. The menus are evaluated and judged in the “live” event by an international jury, including professional chefs.

The final and decisive task in the 2009 competition was to provide a recipie for “pizza with leeks” and CookIIS faced the challenge successfully. In the database of 1,500 recipes, there was no recipe that fit this description completely. CookIIS selected the “No Meat Bean Burn Pizza.” It proposed to adapt this recipe by replacing onions with leeks. This choice convinced the jury that the system’s advanced technical capabilities could be used to make wise culinary choices, a winning outcome!

“Based on Empolis software, our team was able to develop CookIIS, an intelligent application that led us to win the Computer Cooking Contest. Empolis Research & Discovery is an unrivaled solution for the extraction and analysis of unstructured information”, explains Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Althoff, head of the research group “Intelligent Information Systems”, which belongs to the institute of computer science of the University of Hildesheim.

The cooking example clearly depicts how computers are capable of transforming unstructured data into valuable information when powered by the right software. The achievements in the area of intelligently finding the answers to even indirect questions in cooking are transferrable to countless other application areas where users are attempting to sift through mountains of unstructured data for insights.

The Empolis Research and Discovery application is uniquely able to do this through it’s advanced semantic features including Case Based Reasoning (CBR.) CBRis a machine learning method for problem resolution based on examples and analogy. In a database, previously solved problems are stored as cases. The system draws these examples to develop new solutions to new problems. Successfully solved problems and their solutions are then stored in the database for future reference.

To learn more about the Empolis Research & Disovery solution visit us at: www.empolis.de/applications-services/applications/research-discovery.html

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For further information about the Computer Cooking Contest: www.computercookingcontest.net

Test the CookIIS system here: cookiis.iis.uni-hildesheim.de

About ICCBR

The 8th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR) was held in Seattle, Washington from 20 July to 23 July 2009. Since 1993, this bi-annual conference has been held in alternation with its sister conference in Europe 17 times in a row. The conference strengthens the connections between CBR and other related scientific areas and explores new problems and industrial solutions. Empolis is an ICCBR sponsor..

For further information: www.iccbr.org/

About Empolis

Empolis, an Attensity Group Company, provides an integrated suite of business applications that analyze, interpret and automate the exploding volume of unstructured data. Business leaders, knowledge management professionals, customer support personnel and customers receive current knowledge and get relevant and actionable answers - fast.

Empolis is the provider of intelligent information management applications for companies and organizations who have recognized the great value for their company. Information in all varieties of formats and from any source are automatically transformed into valuable knowledge and delivered in real-time to the decision-maker. Information is converted into real knowledge capital and business processes are optimized.

Countless notable national and international enterprises (such as Airbus, BBC Monitoring, Bosch, Datev, European Patent Office, Nokia Siemens Networks, Siemens, Versatel and Vodafone), as well as public organizations rely upon Empolis applications and our 20+ year experience in a wide range of industries and process know-how. Internationally, more than 200,000 registered business leaders and users utilize applications from the Attensity Group.

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Press Contacts Empolis GmbH: Martina Tomaschowski Empolis GmbH Europaallee 10 67657 Kaiserslautern Germany Phone: +49-631-303-5503 Mobile: +49-170-233-7849 Email: martina.tomaschowski@empolis.com Thomas Huber semanticom GmbH Unter den Linden 21 10117 Berlin Germany Phone: +49-30-74-69-73-97 Mobile: +49-151-14-96-58-10 Email: Thomas.Huber@semanticom.eu

Source: Empolis GmbH

Press Contacts Empolis GmbH: Martina Tomaschowski, Empolis GmbH, Europaallee 10, 67657 Kaiserslautern, Germany, Phone: +49-631-303-5503, Mobile: +49-170-233-7849, Email: martina.tomaschowski at empolis.com; Thomas Huber, semanticom GmbH, Unter den Linden 21, 10117 Berlin, Germany, Phone: +49-30-74-69-73-97, Mobile: +49-151-14-96-58-10, Email: Thomas.Huber at semanticom.eu