Corporate Knowledge in Cyberworlds

Pierre MARET  Jacques CALMET 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems  Vol.E88-D  No.5  pp.880-887
Publication Date: 2005/05/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Cyberworlds)
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Keyword: 
agent oriented abstraction,  society of agents,  abstract modeling,  knowledge exchange,  cyberworld, 

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Summary: 
The aim of this paper is to propose a modeling of corporate knowledge in cyberworlds. An enterprise is considered in the framework of multiagent methodology as a distributed computational system. The Agent-Oriented Abstraction paradigm was proposed earlier to describe in a fully generic way agents and societies of agents. In this paper, we are investigating the application of this paradigm to the abstract modeling of corporate knowledge, extending the scope of traditional knowledge management approaches. We show that such an abstraction mechanism leads to very practical applications for cyberworlds whether on the web or on any other medium. Our approach covers the broader possible scope of corporate knowledge, emphasizing the distributivity and autonomy of agents within cyber systems. This approach can be further used to better simulate and support knowledge management processes.