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Modeling Context-Aware Distributed Knowledge

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Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM 2003)

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This paper presents a multi-agent model to support decision-making in organizations. The model is characterized by being interactive, distributed, and incremental and by the use of cognitive maps to represent the knowledge of decision-making actors. The main proposition is to consider the context of concepts belonging to cognitive maps in a way that it represents agent’s mental states, allowing some kind of inference. To do so, context is conceptualized in cognitive maps, defining agent’s mental states from concepts being causally related to their context.

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  1. UNIDE – ISCTE, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Av. das Forças Armadas, 1649-026, Lisboa, Portugal

    Jorge Louçã

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  1. Knowledge Management Department, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Ludger van Elst

  2. Dept. Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

    Virginia Dignum

  3. Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Haid-und-Neu-Straße 10-14, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Andreas Abecker

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Louçã, J. (2004). Modeling Context-Aware Distributed Knowledge. In: van Elst, L., Dignum, V., Abecker, A. (eds) Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management. AMKM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2926. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24612-1_14

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