Architecture of an Extendable and Cloud-Ready Knowledge Management and Processing Framework for the Agricultural Domain

In this paper we present a software architecture for a Knowledge Management and Processing Framework initially for usage in the agricultural domain, but customizable for any domain. In contrast to existing Knowledge Management and Processing Systems, this proposed architecture mainly focuses on the usage of a cloud platform as execution environment and therefore pays special attention to the design aspects to utilize the benefits of a cloud infrastructure, by designing the system parallelizable and distributable. We identified the main aspects of a cloud-ready system platform and combined them with the needed functionality for a custom Knowledge Management and Processing Framework.