KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany, September 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- 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:
http://www.empolis.de/applications-services/applications/research-discovery.html

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

Test the CookIIS system here:
http://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: http://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.

http://www.empolis.com

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