Modeling corporate knowledge within the agent oriented abstraction

An enterprise can be considered in a distributed computational paradigm. Multiagent systems have been invented to tackle such problems within artificial intelligence but are today seen also as a management methodology. The agent oriented abstraction has been proposed to describe in a fully generic way a society of agents. In this paper, we are investigating the application of this model to the abstract modeling of corporate knowledge. We show that such an abstraction mechanism leads to very practical applications whether on the web or on any other support and that it covers the broad scope of corporate knowledge. This approach can be further used to better simulate and support knowledge management processes.