The aim of the EU FP 7 Large-Scale Integrating Project LarKC is to develop the Large Knowledge Collider (LarKC, for short, pronounced “lark”), a platform for massive distributed incomplete reasoning that will remove the scalability barriers of currently existing reasoning systems for the Semantic Web.
LarKC in a nutshell
The following resources are a good way to find out what LarKC is about, in increasing amounts of detail:
LarKC in 1 page: the LarKC leaflet and the LarKC poster
LarKC in 12 pages: the LarKC overview paper
LarKC in 30 pages: the LarKC overview presentation
LarKC in 40 pages: extracts of the proposed work plan
Frequently Asked Questions about LarKC: http://wiki.larkc.eu/LarkcProject/FAQ
The facts
Start: 01-April-08
End: 30-Sep-11
Duration 42 months
Budget (total): approx. €10 Mill.
EC contribution (total): approx. €7 Mill.
Partners (total): 13 (from 11 countries)
Project Number: FP7 - 215535
The team
