Inproceedings,
Towards Trust-Based Knowledge Management in Mobile Communities
AAAI Spring Symposium on Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management, Stanford University, USA, (March 2003)http://ivs.tu-berlin.de/~?kh/publikationen/AMKM2003.pdf Last access: 2003-05-09.
Abstract
Agent-mediated Knowledge Management is a promising approach to
handle and maintain knowledge, especially in a distributed and
mobile environment. A natural example for such an environment is
a community: individuals that group together because they share
the same interests. Trust is an important issue when building
communities on sharing knowledge. This paper presents our
conceptual framework for trustbased knowledge management with
respect to the highly distributed and mobile environment of
communities. We extend an existing knowledge management system by
using mobile agents that serve as dynamic delegates of the mobile
user in different locations. These agents may exchange knowledge
with other agents. When the user returns to a location a
previously delegated agent resides, this agent reconciles the
newly found knowledge with the user\'ıs knowledge base. Similar to
sharing knowledge, trust plays a central role in this process
since it controls the autonomous knowledge acquisition of a
user\'ıs agents.
