Facilitating community awareness with associative representation

This paper describes information sharing in a community using associative representation. The associative representation links heterogeneous information without de ning the semantics strictly. We leave the interpretation of the semantics to human tacit knowledge. We have developed a system called CoMeMoCommunity which gathers community members' information automatically and helps the members with sharing it. Our system has two layers structure that consists of personal information-space called \Personal Knowledge Layer" and common informationspace called \Common knowledge Layer". In the system, agents that are created by users as users' alter ego at Personal Knowledge Layer interact with other agents at Common Knowledge Layer in place of the users. We have evaluated the system at the preliminary experiment. The results suggest that the system enables community members to facilitate communication by sharing each members' information.