Web Services based Framework for Knowledge Management in Peer-to-Peer Environment

The problem of Knowledge Management (KM) is eminent in the P2P area. This paper presents a general framework of knowledge management based on web services in peer-to-peer (P2P) environment. P2P knowledge management yields significant advantages when combined and applied as web services for KM. By adopting web services techniques and distributed approaches, we partition the knowledge network into numerous knowledge communities self-adaptively, and provide a mechanism for knowledge management in these knowledge communities with our framework. Our framework implements the integration of KM functions and autonomy of knowledge peers in knowledge network, and at the same time, the cost of building and maintaining KM systems is reduced.