Molecules of Knowledge (MoK for short) is a model for knowledge self-organisation, exploiting the biochemical metaphor for its basic abstractions, and biochemical coordination as its coordination model.

• As far as the basic MoK abstractions are concerned, in MoK knowledge atoms are generated by knowledge sources in shared spaces – compartments –, self-aggregate to shape knowledge molecules, and autonomously move toward knowledge consumers, whose actions (either epistemic or not) are represented as enzymes.
• As far as the MoK computational model is concerned, MoK features biochemical tuple spaces for the creation, aggregation, diffusion and consumption of knowledge atoms and molecules.

About MoK

• Books
  • Stefano Mariani  Coordination of Complex Sociotechnical Systems: Self-organisation of Knowledge in MoK  
• Papers
  • Foundations
    • Stefano Mariani, Andrea Omicini  Molecules of Knowledge: A Novel Perspective over Knowledge Management  Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium of the 12th Symposium of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, CEUR Workshop Proceedings 926, 15 June 2012
    • Stefano Mariani, Andrea Omicini  Molecules of Knowledge: Self-Organisation in Knowledge-Intensive Environments  Intelligent Distributed Computing VI, Studies in Computational Intelligence 446, 2013
  • Social action
    • Stefano Mariani, Andrea Omicini  MoK: Stigmergy Meets Chemistry to Exploit Social Actions for Coordination Purposes  Social Coordination: Principles, Artefacts and Theories (SOCIAL.PATH), 3-5 March 2013
    • Stefano Mariani, Andrea Omicini  Anticipatory Coordination in Socio-technical Knowledge-intensive Environments: Behavioural Implicit Communication in MoK  AI*IA 2015, Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9336, 23-25 September 2015
  • Expressiveness
    • Stefano Mariani  On the “Local-to-Global” Issue in Self-Organisation: Chemical Reactions with Custom Kinetic Rates  Eighth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2014, Eighth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2014, September 2014
    • Stefano Mariani  Parameter Engineering vs. Parameter Tuning: the Case of Biochemical Coordination in MoK  From Objects to Agents, CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1099, 2-3 December 2013
  • MoK-News
    • Stefano Mariani, Andrea Omicini  Self-Organising News Management: The Molecules of Knowledge Approach  Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops (SASOW), 2012
• Theses
  • Molecules of knowledge: a new approach to knowledge production, management and consumption
  • Molecules of Knowledge: architettura, implementazione ed esempi
• Student Projects
  • RSS-based sources of knowledge in MoK-News

Technology

Current MoK implementations are based on the TuCSoN coordination technology. Since they are used for tests and experiments, they are not publicly available, yet.