Title: Addressing the social components of knowledge to foster communitary exchanges

Authors: Gustavo Alberto Gimenez-Lugo, Jaime Simao Sichman, Jomi Fred Hubner

Addresses: FACET, Av. Mal. Floriano Peixoto, 470 Centro CEP. Curitiba 80010-130, PR, Brazil. ' LTI/EP/USP, Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, tv. 3, 158, CEP 05508-900, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil. ' FURB/DSC, Campus IV, Rua Braz Wanka, 238, Vila Nova, Blumenau 89035-160, SC, Brazil

Abstract: This paper describes the ideas behind a peer-to-peer multiagent system based on a new knowledge model in which ontological concepts are extended with organisational information to record the social situation in which they were learned and used. Agents can now reason about concept usage and privacy in terms of organisational entities, paving the way to reason about social roles of contacts that belong to personal social networks, in open internet communities. We depart from a specific organisation model, MOISE+, briefly presented here.

Keywords: internet-based communities; intelligent agents; knowledge sharing; ontologies; social software; web-based communities; multi-agent systems; agent-based systems; social networks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2005.006062

International Journal of Web Based Communities, 2005 Vol.1 No.2, pp.176 - 194

Published online: 30 Jan 2005 *

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