A two-layer multi-agent architecture to facilitate knowledge sharing within communities of practice

Inteligencia Artificial

Volumn 13, Issue 42, 2009, Pages 46-54

  Soto, Juan Pablo ^a   Vizcano, Aurora ^a   Portillo, Javier ^a   Piattini, Mario ^a   Kusche, Oliver ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Knowledge management; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249139752     PISSN: 11373601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4114/ia.v13i42.1045     Document Type: Article

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