1996 Volume 5 Issue 2 Pages 41-61
This paper proposes a computational model for cooperative knowledgeable activities in an organization. The model is developed based on the research of intelligent agents in distributed artificial intelligence and aims at integrating the concepts of knowledge business management, computer supported cooperative work, and organizational learning activities. In the model, we assume that the agents exchange only their partial knowledge via incomplete communication, and then we examine how cooperative problem solving and learning is pragmatically carried out in the model. To validate the effectiveness of the model, firstly, we apply the model to organizational decision making problems, simulate the dynamic behaviors of their decision making and learning, and also apply the model to organizational cooperative search problems. Based on the experimental results, we discuss new viewpoint for approaching to improve the knowledgeable activities, integrating business knowledge management, computer-supported cooperative work, and organizational learning methods.
