Towards agent-mediated knowledge management

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2926, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-30

  Van Elst, Ludger ^a   Dignum, Virginia ^b   Abecker, Andreas ^c  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Forschungsbereich Wissensmanagement   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

AGENT-MEDIATED KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (AMKM); ARTIFICIAL AGENTS; AUTONOMY; PERSONAL INFORMATION AGENTS; AGENT BASED; AGENT-MEDIATED KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; APPLICATION AREA; KM SYSTEMS; PROACTIVENESS; SOCIAL ABILITIES;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 18744374332     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24612-1_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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