Summary
Modern organizations tend to constitute of communities of practice to cover the side effect of standardization and centralization of knowledge. The distributed nature of knowledge in groups, teams and other departments of organization and complexity of this tacit knowledge lead us to use community of practice as an environment to share knowledge. In this paper we propose an agent mediated community of a practice system using MAS-CommonKADS methodology. We support the principle of autonomy since every single agent, even those in the same community, needs its own autonomy in order to model an organization and its individuals correctly, using this approach, the natural model for an agent based on knowledge sharing system has been resulted. We presented all models of MAS-CommonKADS methodology required for developing the multi-agent system. We found MAS-CommonKADS useful to design Knowledge Management applications. Because of detailed description of agents, a resulted design model could be simply implemented. We modeled our system using Rebeca and verified it to show that by use of our system, knowledge sharing can be satisfied.
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A Multi Agent Community of Practice
1. Introduction
Knowledge has widely been acknowledged as one of the determining factors for corporate competitiveness and advantage [1, 2]. Knowledge management provides access to experience, knowledge, and expertise that create new capabilities, enable superior performance, encourage innovation, and leverages existing information and knowledge assets of the organization, facilitates information and knowledge dissemination across boundaries and integrates the information and knowledge into day to day business process [3, 4]. In recent years many organizations have adopted knowledge management techniques that focus on building large, expensive, centralized knowledge management systems based on the standardization of the syntactical and semantic representations of all of the knowledge in the organization. Associated tools are developed to facilitate access and use of knowledge by different users of system [5, 6]. There are both practical and theoretical evidences suggesting that this approach to sharing knowledge is inappropriate, as the centralization and standardization of the knowledge remove much of the vital contextual information that inherently comes with knowledge from different sources [5, 7, 8]. Centralized techniques are useful for managing explicit knowledge; knowledge that can be codified and transmittable in forma...See the full content of this document
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