Knowledge Distribution in Large Organizations using Defeasible Logic Programming

CARLOS IVÁN CHESÑEVAR; RAMÓN BRENA; JOSÉ AGUIRRE

LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Springer Verlag, Germany

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2005 vol. 3501 p. 244 - 256

0302-9743

Distributing pieces of knowledge in large, usually distributed organizations is a central problem in Knowledge and Organization Management. Policies for distributing knowledge and information are very often incomplete, or conflict with each other. As a consequence, decision processes for information distribution may be difficult to formalize on the basis of a rationally justified procedure. This paper presents an argumentative approach to cope with the above problem based on Defeasible Logic Programming, a logic programming formalism for defeasible argumentation. Conflicts among policies are solved on the basis of a dialectical analysis whose outcome determines to which specific users different pieces of knowledge are to be delivered.