On-the-fly collaboration in distributed systems through service semantic overlay
Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Melchiori, Denise Salvi · 2008
In the recent years distributed architectures and P2P tech-nology have been adopted to better support effective col-laboration among networked organizations. According to the P2P paradigm, many autonomous peers need to coop-erate under highly dynamic conditions by sharing their re-sources (such as data and services), without sharing a com-mon semantic model or ontology and without having a-priori knowledge about each other. In such a scenario, for effective collaboration, new advanced tools are required to support se-mantic representation and discovery of distributed resources such as data and services. In this paper we focus on seman-tic collaboration and service discovery in P2P systems. We propose the construction of a service semantic overlay over the P2P network, that is, a dynamic conceptual map across peers that provide similar services and constitute synergic service centers.