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Encouraging the Participation and Knowledge Reuse in Communities of Practice by Using a Multi-Agent Architecture and a Trust Model

Authors:
Aurora Vizcaíno
Juan Pablo Soto
Javier Portillo-Rodríguez
Mario Piattini

Keywords: Multi-agent System, Communities of Practice, Trust, Knowledge Management.

Abstract:
This paper proposes a multi-agent architecture based on the concepts of communities of practice and trust to manage knowledge management systems. The main goal of this proposal is to assist community of practice members in deciding what or who to trust and in this way attempt to foster the reuse of information in organizations which use knowledge management systems. One contribution of this work is a trust model which takes into account certain factors that human beings consciously or unconsciously use when they have to decide whether or not to trust in something or somebody. Moreover, in order to illustrate how the model can be used, a prototype with which to recommend documents is also described.

Pages: 90 to 98

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2009. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 1, 2009

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2660