Abstract
Based on investigating challenges of product knowledge sharing in distributed environment, a context-sensitive product knowledge sharing architecture is proposed. Through a discussion of fundamental model for elucidating and characterizing context in knowledge sharing, and the mechanism of knowledge utilizing, annotating and clustering based on this knowledge context model, we present a context-sensitive query mechanism to spread query over the whole knowledge sharing network by establishing query graph and implementing context-sensitive routing. A prototype system is implemented to prove technical feasibility of the proposed approach.