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A Multi-agent Architecture for Evolving Memories

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Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM 2003)

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This paper concerns a multi-agent system for knowledge management (KM) in research and development (R&D) projects. R&D teams have no time to organize project information, or to articulate the rationale behind the actions that generated the information. Our aim is to provide a system for helping team members to make knowledge explicit, and to allow them to share their experiences without asking them too much extra-work. The article focuses on how we intend to build personal memories by continuously capturing the day-to-day objects the team members deal with on desktop computers, and how personal memories are progressively connected to form a group memory as individuals exchange and reuse other individuals’ knowledge. The main contribution of this paper is a multi-agent architecture that prescribes the processes for building the personal and the group memories. A prototype has been developed and at the current stage the processes for building the personal memories are implemented.

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  1. CNRS UMR 6599 HEUDYASIC, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France

    Cesar Tacla & Jean-Paul Barthès

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  1. Knowledge Management Department, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Ludger van Elst

  2. Dept. Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

    Virginia Dignum

  3. Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Haid-und-Neu-Straße 10-14, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Andreas Abecker

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Tacla, C., Barthès, JP. (2004). A Multi-agent Architecture for Evolving Memories. 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_27

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