Distributed explicit knowledge and collective awareness.

Abstract

Our goal is to model communication in a group among agents with limited resources. Therefore we redefine the concept of distributed knowledge in order to distinguish between implicit and explicit knowledge. The most useful tool to do this is the concept of awareness, as a way of limiting and selecting what the agents really know. In this sense we propose a collective awareness that ensures full explicit communication and shows the dynamic aspects of the information exchange in a group. Depending on the definition of this collective awareness we are able to model the various ways in which the agents behave during communication.