P2P knowledge management: an investigation of the technical architecture and main process

Author

Mangisengi, Oscar ; Essmayr, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria

fYear

2003

fDate

1-5 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

787

Lastpage

791

Abstract

This paper presents the architecture of peer-to-peer (P2P) management of knowledge artifacts based on a distributed ontology. We analyze the main processes of knowledge management (KM), namely, knowledge acquisition and knowledge retrieval. P2P information management and ontologies yield significant advantages when combined and applied as advanced Web application for KM: (1) the knowledge owner (called knowledge peer) keeps control of his/her ontologies and knowledge artifacts against other knowledge peers, (2) corporations benefit because valuable knowledge will spread among knowledge peers due to P2P properties and thus will not be lost even if particular individuals leave the corporation.

Keywords

knowledge acquisition; knowledge management; information management; knowledge acquisition; knowledge artifact; knowledge owner; knowledge peer; knowledge retrieval; ontology; peer to peer knowledge management; technical architecture; Centralized control; Computer architecture; Databases; Indexing; Information management; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge management; Ontologies; Peer to peer computing; Publishing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2003. Proceedings. 14th International Workshop on

ISSN

1529-4188

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1993-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.2003.1232117

Filename

1232117