Knowledge logistics in information grid environment

Rapidity of decision making process is an important factor for different areas of human life (business, healthcare, industry, military applications, etc.). Since responsible persons make decisions using available knowledge a delivery of necessary and timely information for knowledge management systems is important. Knowledge logistics is a new direction of knowledge management addressing this issue. It provides a set of activities for knowledge search, acquisition and integration from distributed sources located in information grid environment. The paper proposes a developed Knowledge Source Network approach (KSNet-approach) to knowledge logistics and its multi-agent architecture, and describes a research prototype of the system “KSNet” based on this approach. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.