Agent-based buddy-finding methodology for knowledge sharing

@article{citeulike:542025, abstract = {The Internet provides an opportunity for knowledge sharing among people with similar interests (i.e., buddies). Emails, mailing lists, chat rooms, electronic bulletin boards, newsgroups are ways for identifying buddies. However, manual ways of finding a buddy are time consuming and not generally effective. Collaborative filtering technologies can provide useful information to users based on others' interests, and software agent technology is a promising tool for finding buddies. Software agents are autonomous and can represent users' preferences and perform tasks with built-in learning and reasoning capabilities. They can also communicate with one another to exchange information. Here, we define an agent-based buddy-finding methodology. Agents are created to represent users and exchange sample information with possible buddies while assessing the information exchanged. Thus, we present a methodology for developing an agent that identifies a set of buddy-agents using a built-in fuzzy reasoning mechanism to assess the buddy membership of peer agents. Using this, the agents cultivate a dynamic acquaintance list of their peer agents. The methodology was empirically tested in a context involving sharing musical-knowledge. We show that the buddies found by agents are as good as those found manually.}, author = {Li, Xiaoqing and Montazemi, Ali R. and Yuan, Yufei }, citeulike-article-id = {542025}, doi = {10.1016/j.im.2005.07.001}, journal = {Information \& Management}, keywords = {agent-based, buddy, collaborative-filtering, fuzzy, knowledge-sharing, preferences, tastes}, month = {April}, number = {3}, pages = {283--296}, posted-at = {2006-03-09 13:09:47}, priority = {2}, title = {Agent-based buddy-finding methodology for knowledge sharing}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2005.07.001}, volume = {43}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:542025 L3 - citeulike-article-id:542025 TI - Agent-based buddy-finding methodology for knowledge sharing JF - Information & Management VL - 43 IS - 3 SP - 283 EP - 296 N2 - The Internet provides an opportunity for knowledge sharing among people with similar interests (i.e., buddies). Emails, mailing lists, chat rooms, electronic bulletin boards, newsgroups are ways for identifying buddies. However, manual ways of finding a buddy are time consuming and not generally effective. Collaborative filtering technologies can provide useful information to users based on others' interests, and software agent technology is a promising tool for finding buddies. Software agents are autonomous and can represent users' preferences and perform tasks with built-in learning and reasoning capabilities. They can also communicate with one another to exchange information. Here, we define an agent-based buddy-finding methodology. Agents are created to represent users and exchange sample information with possible buddies while assessing the information exchanged. Thus, we present a methodology for developing an agent that identifies a set of buddy-agents using a built-in fuzzy reasoning mechanism to assess the buddy membership of peer agents. Using this, the agents cultivate a dynamic acquaintance list of their peer agents. The methodology was empirically tested in a context involving sharing musical-knowledge. We show that the buddies found by agents are as good as those found manually. KW - agent-based KW - buddy KW - collaborative-filtering KW - fuzzy KW - knowledge-sharing KW - preferences KW - tastes AU - Li, Xiaoqing AU - Montazemi, Ali AU - Yuan, Yufei PY - 2006/04// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2005.07.001 ER -