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Research in EDAMOK Paolo Bouquet
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Outline

• What we promised to do, and
• what we did in this first year
• Challenges for the future (a personal
  perspective)
• Actions (proposal)

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What is EDAMOK?

• EDAMOK is a project in Knowledge Management!!
• Knowledge Management can be described as a
  collection of methodologies and tools that
  provide support in
• creating new knowledge within the organization
  (the learning organization), in particular by
  transforming tacit knowledge into explicit
  knowledge
• codifying such newly created knowledge into
  "objects" (e.g. documents, repositories,
  databases, procedures, forms) that can be stored
  in a sort of organizational memory
• disseminating knowledge in the organization by
  making it accessible to people other than its
  creators.

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• EDAMOK promotes an approach that
• starts from the recognition that there exist
  autonomous communities within an organization,
• that they are more an opportunity than a problem,
  and
• that technology should supports knowledge
  exchange not by eliminating differences, but by
  designing systems that will enable
  interoperability (in particular, semantic
  interoperability) between autonomous communities.

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• The main objective of this project is the
  development of a theory, a set of conceptual and
  technological tools, and a set of experimental
  results, to support a distributed approach to
  knowledge management in complex organizations.
• From the EDAMOK proposal

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What EDAMOK is not

• EDAMOK is NOT (simply) a project on
• Context and contextual reasoning
• Natural language
• Agents / Peers
• Information retrieval
• Software engineering
• Inductive methods
• Planning
• Organization theory
• EDAMOK combines ideas, methods and techniques
  from all the domains above (and others) to
  achieve its main objective.

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Research objectives in EDAMOK

• Making an explicit representation of a
  communitys context
• Creating a language for representing contexts
• Creating a methodology for representing
  organizational knowledge
• Creating a social model of distributed knowledge
  management
• Making interoperable different communitys
  contexts
• Matching of structured labels
• Meaning Negotiation Protocol
• Agent-based technological infrastructure for
  knowledge management
• EDAMOK proposal

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Research scenarios
EDAMOK

• Foundations
• organizational
• social
• managerial
• technological
• concepts of DKM

• Methodologies
• models
• requirements
• design

• Techniques
• Local K represent.
• Matching
• Mean. Negotiation
• NL for DKM
• Planning
• Query manipulation
• Induction
• Data coordination
• P2P architectures

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Publications

• FOUNDATIONS
• M. Bonifacio, P. Bouquet, P. Traverso, Enabling
  Distributed Knowledge Management. Managerial and
  Technological Implications, Novatica and
  Informatik/Informatique, v. III (1), 2002
• M. Bonifacio, P. Bouquet, D. Merigliano,
  Knowledge e Management Sono Compatibili?,
  Economia e Management, 3, 2002
• M. Bonifacio, P. Bouquet, Distributed Knowledge
  Management a Systemic Approach. In Gianfranco
  Minati, Eliano Pessa (Eds.), Emergence in
  Complex, Cognitive, Social and Biological
  Systems, Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New
  York, 2002
• M. Bonifacio, P. Bouquet, R. Cuel, The Role of
  Classification(s) in Distributed Knowledge
  Management, Proceedings of 6th International
  Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent
  Information Engineering Systems Allied
  Technologies (KES'2002), Crema, 2002
• P. Bouquet, M. Warglien (eds.), Working Notes,
  from AAAI-02 Workshop on Meaning Negotiation,
  Edmonton (Alberta, Canada), July 28, 2002

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Publications

• M. Bonifacio, P. Bouquet, R. Cuel, Knowledge
  Nodes the Building Blocks of a Distributed
  Approach to KM, JUCS, 8(6), 2002
• METHODOLOGIES
• D. Bertolini, P. Busetta, A. Molani, M. Nori, A.
  Perini, Designing Peer-to-Peer Applications an
  Agent-Oriented Approach, to appear in Proceeding
  of International Workshop on Agent Technology and
  Software Engineering (AgeS)-Net Object Days 2002
  (NODe02), 2002
• A. Molani, P. Bresciani, A. Perini, E. Yu,
  Intentional Analysis for Knowledge Management.
  Fourth International Conference on Practical
  Aspects of Knowledge Management (PAKM-02)
• Elena Andretta, Matteo Bonifacio, Problematiche
  di Distributed Knowledge Management nel mondo
  B2B, Technical report D.I.T., Trento, 2002

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Publications

• CONTEXT-BASED LANGUAGES
• P. Bouquet, A. Donà, L. Serafini, ConTeXtualized
  Local Ontology Specification via CTXML
  Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Meaning
  Negotiation, Edmonton (Alberta, Canada), July 28,
  2002
• P. Bouquet, A. Donà, L. Serafini, S. Zanobini,
  Contextualized Local Ontologies Specification via
  CTXML, Working Notes of the Proceedings of the
  AAAI Workshop on Meaning Negotiation, Edmonton
  (Alberta, Canada), July 28, 2002
• A. Dona', L. Serafini, Updating Contexts, to
  appear in Proceedings of the International
  Conference on Knoweledge Representation and
  Reasoning (KR), 2002

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Publications

• MEANING COORDINATION and NEGOTIATION
• A. Borgida and L. Serafini Distributed
  Description Logics - Preliminary investigations.
  Proceedings of DL-2002, KR workshop on
  Description Logics 2002.
• P. Avesani, Evaluation Framework for Local
  Ontologies Interoperability, Working Notes of the
  AAAI-02 workshop on Meaning Negotiation, Edmonton
  (Alberta, Canada), July 28, 2002
• B. Magnini, L. Serafini, M. Speranza, Linguistic
  Based Matching of Local Ontologies Working Notes
  of the AAAI-02 Workshop on Meaning Negotiation,
  Edmonton (Alberta, Canada), July 28, 2002
• B. Magnini, L. Serafini, M. Speranza, Using NLP
  Techniques for Meaning Negotiation, to appear in
  Proceedings of VIII Convegno AIIA, Siena, 11-13
  September 2002

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Publications

• PEER-2-PEER
• F. Giunchiglia, I. Zaihrayeu, Making Peer
  Databases Interact, a Vision for an Architecture
  Supporting Data Coordination, in 6th
  International Workshop on Cooperative Information
  Agents (CIA-2002).
• M. Bonifacio, R. Cuel, G. Mameli, M. Nori, A
  Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Distributed
  Knowledge Management, 3rd International Symposium
  on Multi-Agent Systems, Large Complex Systems,
  and E-Businesses (MALCEB'2002)
• M. Bonifacio, P. Bouquet, G. Mameli, M. Nori, A
  Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Distributed
  Knowledge Management, Fourth International
  Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge
  Management (PAKM-02), 2002
• M. Bonifacio, P. Bouquet, G. Mameli, M. Nori,
  Peer-Mediated Knowledge Management. Submitted to
  the AAAI-03 Spring Symposium on Agent Mediated
  Knowledge Management

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Challenges for the future

• Enabling a dynamics between research topics and
  project lines (going beyond the SEM-Net
  scenario (new project lines))
• Create/exploit new synergies among research
  groups within EDAMOK (and the EDAMOK Days are an
  important step!!)
• Enabling a strong interaction between scientific
  and technological research
• Addressing new (scientific, business, social)
  communities
• Promoting scientific events (workshops, symposia,
  tutorials, )
• Building a stronger international scientific
  network

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From research topics to project lines

• In our group there are many research areas that
  are extremely relevant for EDAMOK
• For the first year of EDAMOK, some of them were
  implemented as project lines, namely activities
  with a strong connection with the technological
  development
• CTXML
• Matching algorithm
• AOSE
• NL techniques for DKM
• KEx
• Problem how do we evolve this scenario? For
  example
• How do new research areas can make their way in
  EDAMOK?
• How can they migrate into project lines?

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Scientific and technological research

• We have a unique chance of having a technological
  research team within the project
• We must exploit this opportunity to implement a
  mechanism of exploration/exploitation

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Scientific communities

• Already addressed (at least partially)
• Knowledge Management
• Artificial Intelligence
• Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
• Business/Management
• Software Engineering
• To be addressed
• Semantic Web
• Peer-to-peer
• WWW
• Web Services/Service Oriented Computing
• Organization/Economics
• Information systems
• Philosophy/Cognitive science
• ..

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Scientific committees

• We were/are already involved in
• AAAI-02 workshop on Meaning Negotiation
• AAAI-03 Spring Symposium on Agent-Mediated
  Knowledge Management
• I-KNOW03
• IJCAI-03 workshop on Ontologies
• But a lot more can (and should) be done
• Organize workshop at major conferences of
  relevant communities (e.g., ISWC03, WWW03,
  AAMAS03, )
• Lobbying to be invited in the Program
  Committees of EDAMOK related conferences

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Network

• We need to
• Identify EDAMOK related projects in Europe and in
  the world, and start collaborations with them
• Start lobbying for the VI Framework (networks of
  excellence, integrated projects, .)
• Being pro-active with the major standardization
  committees in the EDAMOK related research areas

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Actions

• Open call for research lines (objectives, team,
  deadlines)
• Creating opportunities for cross-fertilization
• Implementing a methodology for migrating research
  topics in project lines
• Implementing a methodology for (incrementally)
  transferring our research into a prototype system