Context driven spontaneous knowledge exchange

Abstract

The way we work is changing fundamentally. Broadly available mobile networks give us the technical opportunity to be more flexible in time and space. The better understanding of learning organizations leads to a reorganization of business processes. There is also a trend to make the Internet more "intelligent". This paper discusses how contexts can be used to manage the exchange of knowledge in mobile spontaneous networks. We motivate and introduce a new concept called knowledge port, which is an extension of Topic Maps and Semantic Web. This approach seamlessly integrates normadic employees in the knowledge management policy of their company. It can also be used to offer location based knowledge.