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Motivation

Knowledge Management (KM) has been a predominant trend in business in the recent years. Not only is Knowledge Management an important field of application for mature AI and related technologies, such as CBR for intelligent lessons-learned systems, or Text Classification for Information Push services; it also provides new challenges to the AI community, like context-aware knowledge delivery. Scaling-up research prototypes to real-world solutions usually requires an application-driven integration of several basic techno­lo­gies, e.g., ontologies for knowledge sharing and reuse, collaboration support like CSCW systems, and personalized information services. Typical characteristics to be dealt with in such an integration are:

• manifold logically and physically dispersed actors and knowledge sources,
• different degrees of formalization of knowledge,
• different kinds of (web-based) services and (legacy) systems,
• conflicts between local (individual) and global (group or organizational) goals.

Agent approaches have already been successfully employed for many partial solutions within the overall picture: Agent-based workflow, cooperative information gathering, intelligent information integration, or personal information agents, are established techniques in this area. In order to cope with the inherent complexity of a more comprehensive solution, the concept of Agent-mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM) deals with collective aspects of the domain in an attempt to cope with the conflict between desired order and actual behavior in dynamic environments. AMKM introduces a social layer, which structures the society of agents by defining specific roles and possible interactions between them.

In this workshop we invite contributions which illustrate methodological, technical and application aspects of Agent-mediated Knowledge Management. 
Topics of interest include:

• Methodology for AMKM
• Analysis and Design Methods for AMKM Systems
• Relationship between AMKM and Agent-oriented Software Engineering
• Relationship between AMKM and Business Engineering Methods
• Functionalities in AMKM Systems
• Distributed Organizational Memories
• Ontology Negotiation and Ontology Lifecycle Management
• Agents for Group Formation and Awareness
• Agents for Supporting Social Processes (Trust, Reputation)
• Agent-based Workflow in the KM Context
• Collaborative Information Retrieval
• Emergent Semantics and Pervasive Semantics
• Implementation of AMKM Systems
• Architectures and Platforms for Socially Enabled Agents
• Distributed KR&R for Socially Enabled Agents
• User Modeling for Agent Mediated Social Processes
• Human-Computer Interaction in AMKM (Ontology Visualization, Web Design Guidelines for Knowledge Navigation, User Interfaces for KM)
• Practical application examples for (aspects of) AMKM systems
• Basic Research Questions for AMKM
• Benefits and reasons for the application of the agent paradigm to KM
• Organizational Implications of Agent Use in KM (e.g., with respect to risks and responsibilities)
• Formal models for AMKM
• Relationships to other research paradigms like P2P or Grid computing, Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services, or mobile computing and mobile KM
• Evaluation of KM and AMKM systems

Predecessor Event

The first AMKM workshop (AMKM-2003) was organized as a 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium at Stanford University.
The papers are available as AAAI Technical Report SS-03-01.
Revised and additional papers (including an introduction/overview on AMKM) are available as Volume 2926 of the Springer LNAI Series.

Important Dates for Submission

Submission of papers to workshop organizers	01. April 2004
Author notification	changed: 17. May 2004
Camera ready papers back to workshop organizers	01. June 2004