A Distributed Knowledge Model for Knowledge Management System

With the fast popularization of the WWW, knowledge management (KM) plays more and more important roles in most of fields. But the centralized KM can not be adaptive to the Internet environment, because there may be more than one knowledge base including personal knowledge, organizational knowledge and domain knowledge in the distributed environment. Moreover it also involved in synergy knowledge in each phase of collaborative process. Currently, in order to solve the issue of knowledge management in distributed environment, we first introduces some background such as agent technology, then analyses KM lifecycle and its classification in collaborative environment, and propose a distributed knowledge model for knowledge management system based on agent. Agent technology which is used in development of KM can improve knowledge management and provide intelligence services in collaborative environments via Internet or Intranet. Finally we make a conclusion and discuss the further research work.