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Carlos M. Toledo
Institute of Development and Design, Argentina & National Council of Scientifc and Technological
Research, Argentina
Omar Chiotti
Institute of Development and Design, Argentina & National Council of Scientifc and Technological
Research, Argentina
María R. Galli
Institute of Development and Design, Argentina & National Council of Scientifc and Technological
Research, Argentina
A Multi-Agent Knowledge
Management System for
Reactive and Proactive
Knowledge Supply
ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an agent-based architecture for integrating organizational knowledge repositories
and business processes orchestrated by a workfow management system. This architecture proactively
provides relevant knowledge to workfow tasks considering their context, and stores the information
generated by its execution for future requirements. It describes components of the architecture, models a
multi-agent system that enables the integration, presents a strategy to annotate and retrieval knowledge
of non-structured information sources, and defnes a new workfow pattern to be used in knowledge
intensive tasks in order to make possible the knowledge provision. This architecture allows workers to
count, in a proactive way, with all necessary information for the task executions without suspending
their activities to retrieve information scattered in the organization. It reduces the wasted time in manual
knowledge searches included in mostly knowledge management approaches.
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4153-2.ch063