A Peer-to-Peer Solution for Distributed Knowledge Management

Abstract

Distributed Knowledge Management is an approach to Knowledge Management based on the principle that the multiplicity (and heterogeneity) of perspectives within complex organizations should not be viewed as an obstacle to knowledge exploitation, but rather as an opportunity that can foster innovation and creativity. Despite a wide agreement on this principle, most current KM systems are based on the idea that all perspectival aspects of knowledge should be eliminated in favor of an objective and general representation of knowledge. In this chapter we propose a Peer-to-Peer architecture (called KEx), which embodies the principle above in a quite straightforward way: (i) each peer (called a K-peer) provides all the services needed to create and organize "local" knowledge from an individual's or a group's perspective, and (ii) social structures and protocols of meaning negotiation are defined to achieve semantic coordination among autonomous peers (e.g., when searching documents from other K-peers).

Improving the Performance of the Peer to Peer Network by Introducing an Assortment of Methods

“…3) shows priority based selection as well as sorting of data inside a knowledge database (Berry et al, 1999;Bonifacio et al, 2002). The searched data inside the knowledge database would be prioritized and ordered set of result to be produced for the user.…”

Visualized cognitive knowledge map integration for P2P networks

“…Current KM research mostly focus on investigating knowledge activities on client-server architecture which uses centralized homogeneous knowledge databases or repositories to provide unified knowledge structure for an organization. Such unified knowledge structure, often called knowledge map, ontology, categorization, or classification system, is meant to represent a shared conceptualization of corporate knowledge, and to enable communication and knowledge exchange across the entire organization (Bonifacio et al 2002). We denote this unified knowledge structure as knowledge map in this study.…”

Using peer-to-peer technology for knowledge sharing in communities of practices

“…Another reason is that knowledge workers do not want to give up autonomy and anonymity (Mangisengi et al 2003). The design of KM systems needs to be consistent with the social processes of organization cognition (Bonifacio et al 2002). One difficulty in KM nowadays is how to bridge the gap between the technical architecture and human factors (i.e., behavior).…”