Kn-Net™ is based on two core components:

A Virtual Community Collaboration Space, where a community members can organize their common yet distributed repository of knowledge and engage in online collaborative activities such as collaborative review of documents, FAQs, online discussion forums, and organization of community events. Emphasis has been put on the distribution of content databases (peer-to-peer philosophy) and powerful categorization and search functions that go far beyond the traditional folder-type structure.

An Inter-Community Hub, where members can store their profile of expertise profile, as required by the Communities they belong to, and serch for other members based on these same profiles of expertise ("I am looking for an automation engineer, who can program in Step7, who knows packaging machines, and lives close to Sidney"...). This search engine is based on CBR technology, which compares profiles and always delivers an answer to a request. This hub can be compared to Napster, applied to expertise profiles
These two components are J2EE based and have been interfaced using the XML standard.

The following diagram outlines the present architecture of Kⁿ-Net™