Knowledge Life Cycle Management over a Distributed Architecture

Schorlemmer, Dr Marco and Potter, Dr Stephen and Robertson, Dr David and Sleeman, Prof Derek (2002) Knowledge Life Cycle Management over a Distributed Architecture. Expert Update 5(3):pp. 2-19.

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In order to address problems stemming from the dynamic nature of distributed systems, there is a need to be able to express the often neglected notions of the evolution and change of the knowledge components of such systems. This need becomes more pressing when one considers the potential of the Internet for distributed knowledge-based problem solving --- and the pragmatic issues surrounding knowledge integrity. In this paper, we introduce a formal calculus for describing transformations in the `life cycles' of knowledge components, along with ideas about the nature of distributed environments in which the ideas underpinning the calculus can be realised. The formality and level of abstraction of this language encourage the analysis of knowledge histories and allows useful properties about this knowledge to be inferred. These ideas are illustrated through the discussion of a particular case-study in knowledge evolution.

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