Rising operating costs and structural transformations such as resizing and globalization of companies all over the world have brought into focus the emerging discipline of knowledge management that is concerned with making knowledge pay off.
Corporate memories form an important part of such knowledge management initiatives in a company.
In this paper, we discuss how viewing corporate memories as distributed case libraries can benefit from existing techniques for distributed case-based reasoning for resource discovery and exploitation of previous expertise. The second approach, based on Federated Peer Learning, deals with two modes of cooperation called DistCBR and ColCBR that let an agent exploit the experience and expertise of peer agents to achieve a local task.