AMKM Standardization

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AMKM Standardization

• Unified Architectures, Methods and tools

Discussion group Nuno Santo, Anna Perini, Norman
K. MA Renata Guizzardi, Joao Alfredo Magalhales,
Cesar Tacla Tanner Jackson, Gianluca Mameli
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Taking into account the following considerations
2 basic questions have been discussed

1. What is a standard?
2. What should an AMKM standard require? (i.e. how
   should an AMKM standard look like?)

• Use what already exists, e.g. FIPA, SEMANTICWEB,
  AOSE.
• Try to focus on KM and its peculiar needs
• Concepts. For us
• - AGENT as in FIPA
• - AMKM is a sw system supporting KM processes

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1) What is a standard?

• WEAK definition a reference for developers of
  AMKM applications, providing guidelines for
• Specifying the requirements of an AMKM system
• Specifying basic components of an AMKM system
  Architecture
• STRONG definition a set of tests an AMKM system
  must respond in order to be compliant with
  "AMKM.0 standard"

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2) What should an AMKM standard require? 1/3

• it should require that an AMKM system supports KM
  processes such as
• Perspective making (i.e. building the local
  knowledge of an actor, i.e. a person or a group,
  in such a way that it can answer the question
  "what I know, what I do?")
• Representing knowledge
• Representing a context
• Mantaining knowledege
• Preserving knowledge
• Publishing knowledge
• Knowledge evolution
• - Perspective taking (i.e. coordination
  processes)
• Context matching
• Cooperative info retrieval
• Knowledge evolution

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2) What should an AMKM standard require? 2/3

• it should require to adopt standard knowledge
  representation languages/techniques, such as
• A standard content representation language
• A standard K. context representation and matching
  language

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2) What should an AMKM standard require? 3/3

• it should require to adopt a standard
  specification language for
• Requirements (including modeling of the KM
  processes in the organization)
• Architectural and detailed design (including the
  specification of the KM processes carried out/
  supported by the system)

• How can we go on?
• detailing further a), b) and c)
• looking at available proposal for standards e.g.
  FIPA and pointing out amKM needs
• suggestions???