Semantic Web and Peer to Peer

Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer

Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe

www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS

SWAP

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Overview

• EU IST Project

• April 2002 to October 2004

• Total effort:

440 person months

• Basic objective:

Achieve synergy between two prominent fields of

development: P2P and Semantic Web

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Partners

• Universität Karlsruhe (Coordinator)

• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

• Meta4, Madrid

• Empolis UK Ltd. / Empolis Polska

• Dresdner Bank AG

• IBIT (Foundation of the Balearic Islands for

the Innovation of Technology)

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Objectives

• Emergent Semantics

• Automatic creation of ontologies

– from folder structures or emails

• Automatic alignment of peers

– my folder X ‚equals‘ your folder Y

• Automatic mapping of peers

– extension of my folder X with the content

of your folder Y

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Objectives (cont‘d)

• routing of information requests to the

appropriate peer

• visualization of the distributed structures

• automatic evolution of ontologies

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VISION -

Thematic Network on

Knowledge Management!

IST-2002-38513

Become a member!

http://www.vision.eu