Feature Requirements of a Knowledge Management System

Knowledge management is a rapidly growing application field firmly anchored in to principal domains, the Human Resource Management domain and the IT domain. As usual in new and rapidly expanding technological areas a dispute arises pertaining to the functional scope and modelling paradigms of the Knowledge Management System architectures. We present our views pertaining to the KMS architecture stemming from the ICONS project research and development work. We present a framework for user requirements underlying the KMS reference architecture based on the most representative KM research strands. The reference architecture provided the baseline set of technological requirements for the ICONS project [ICONS D01].