An e-Groupware based on Multi Agents Systems for Knowledge Management

This article presents a knowledge management experiment in a company of four hundred employees. Our researches concerns the development of a MAS associated to e-Groupware in order to build project memories. In SMEs, the development of a product requires a multidisciplinary team where professional actors work together to achieve the same goal. In this collaborative world we observe many exchanges (engineering data, report...) and interactions (meetings, decisions...). Each of these types of communication is at the origin of the emergent knowledge. Consequently we propose an approach based upon the modelling of activities with an organizational meta-model and the use of MAS to trace knowledge and automatically build project memories.