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Towards Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management

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Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM 2003)

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In this paper, we outline the relation between Knowledge Management (KM) as an application area on the one hand, and software agents as a basic technology for supporting KM on the other. We start by presenting characteristics of KM which account for some drawbacks of today’s – typically centralized – technological approaches for KM. We argue that the basic features of agents (social ability, autonomy, re- and proactiveness) can alleviate several of these drawbacks. A classification schema for the description of agent-based KM systems is established, and a couple of example systems are depicted in terms of this schema. The paper concludes with questions which we think research in Agent-mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM) should deal with.

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van Elst, L., Dignum, V., Abecker, A. (2004). Towards Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management. In: van Elst, L., Dignum, V., Abecker, A. (eds) Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management. AMKM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2926. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24612-1_1

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