An Architecture for Peer-to-peer Reasoning

Abstract. Similar to the current Web, the key to realizing the Semantic Web is scale. Arguably, to achieve this, we need a good balance between participation cost and perceived benefit. The major obstacles lie in coping with large numbers of ontologies, authors and physical hosts, inconsistent or inaccurate statements and the large volume of instance data. Our focus is on scalability through distribution. Most current approaches split ontologies into triples and distribute them among peers participating in a structured peer-to-peer overlay. Identifying a series of drawbacks with this, we propose an alternative model where each peer maintains control of its ontologies.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SEMWEB
• Authors: George Anadiotis, Spyros Kotoulas, Ronny Siebes
• Keywords: Approaches Split Ontologies, Peer Maintains Control, SEMWEB 2007, Structured Peer-to-peer Overlay