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An Overview of Agents in Knowledge Management

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Declarative Programming for Knowledge Management (INAP 2005)

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Current developments in Knowledge Management concern the sharing and usage of knowledge in dynamic environments. The need for systems that both react to and anticipate the needs and expectations of users calls for flexible and adaptable development and implementation frameworks. These are exactly the characteristics that identify software agents and agent societies, which make natural the application of the agent paradigm in KM. This paper attempts to identify both the advantages of agents for KM, and the aspects of KM that can benefit most from this paradigm. Furthermore, the paper describes several current KM projects that use agent technology and identifies open research areas.

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  1. Universiteit Utrecht, P.O. Box 80089, 3508, TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Virginia Dignum

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  1. Graduate School of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan

    Masanobu Umeda

  2. Fraunhofer FIRST, Kekuléstr. 7, D-12489, Berlin, Germany

    Armin Wolf

  3. IF Computer Japan, 5-28-2 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, 113-0022, Tokyo, Japan

    Oskar Bartenstein

  4. Fraunhofer FIRST, Berlin,  

    Ulrich Geske

  5. Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany

    Dietmar Seipel

  6. Graduate School of Computer Science and Systems Engineering,, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan

    Osamu Takata

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Dignum, V. (2006). An Overview of Agents in Knowledge Management. In: Umeda, M., Wolf, A., Bartenstein, O., Geske, U., Seipel, D., Takata, O. (eds) Declarative Programming for Knowledge Management. INAP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4369. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11963578_14

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