Semantic Routing in Peer-to-Peer Systems: Techniques and Categories
Rafic Hage Chehade, Hussein El Ghor, Gilles Nachouki, Tamim Fliti · 2009
Information and communication infrastructures underwent a rapid and extreme decentralization process from a world of statically and partially connected central servers to web of millions of information sources loosely connecting one to another (peers). The need of collaboration among peers requires dynamic capabilities of negotiating agreements on common interpretations within the context of a given task. What is (relatively) new is the focus on semantics because now information has to be sharable in an open environment, where interacting agents do not necessarily share a common understanding of the world at hand, as used to be the case in traditional enterprise information systems. For this reason, many researches were done on the approaches and techniques of semantic routing. This paper represents an effort to state the different techniques used with the limits, advantages, disadvantages and future work of each.