Reconciling knowlegde Management and E-Collaboration Systems: the Information-Driven Knowledge Management Framework

In recent years, e-collaboration systems have emerged as an essential enabler of communication and collaboration within and between enterprises. Current trends in the area of e-collaboration emphasize the importance of effective collaborative knowledge management support in e-collaboration systems. Our research aims at proposing an intelligent infrastructure for the reconciliation of knowledge management and e-collaboration systems. We introduce a conceptual framework for designing and building the new infrastructure that supports specific characteristics of collaborative knowledge management in e-collaboration systems. The paper articulates how this framework enables efficient knowledge exploration and exploitation, and concludes with implications and recommendations for future developments in this area.

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