Semantic Web and Peer-to-peer: book announcement

Book announcement:

Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer
Staab · Stuckenschmidt (Eds.)
http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,1-40109-22-72040370-0,00.html

Just as the industrial society of the last century depended on natural resources, today’s
society depends on information and its exchange.
Semantic Web technologies address the problem of information complexity by providing
advanced support for representing and processing distributed information, while peer-to-peer
technologies address issues of system complexity by allowing flexible and decentralized
information storage and processing. Systems that are based on Semantic Web and
peer-to-peer technologies promise to combine the advantages of the two mechanisms.
A peer-to-peer style architecture for the Semantic Web will avoid both physical and semantic
bottlenecks that limit information and knowledge exchange.

Staab and Stuckenschmidt structured the selected contributions into four parts: Part I,
“Data Storage and Access”, prepares the semantic foundation, i.e. data modelling and
querying in a flexible and yet scalable manner. These foundations allow for dealing with
the organization of information at the individual peers. Part II,“Querying the Network”,
considers the routing of queries, as well as continuous queries and personalized queries
under the conditions of the permanently changing topological structure of a peer-to-peer
network. Part III, “Semantic Integration”, deals with the mapping of heterogeneous data
representations. Finally Part IV, “Methodology and Systems”, reports experiences from
case studies and sample applications.
The overall result is a state-of-the-art description of the potential of Semantic Web and
peer-to-peer technologies for information sharing and knowledge management when
applied jointly.



Prolog: Peer-to-Peer and SemanticWeb
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Frank van Harmelen, Wolf Siberski, Steffen Staab . . . . Pages 1-17

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Part I Data Storage and Access
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Overview: Data Storage and Access
Heiner Stuckenschmidt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . .Pages 21-22

Chapter 1: An RDF Query and Transformation Language
Jeen Broekstra, Arjohn Kampman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .Pages 23-39

Chapter 2: RDF and Traditional Query Architectures
Richard Vdovjak, Geert-Jan Houben, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Ad Aerts . . . .. . . .Pages 41-58

Chapter 3: Query Processing in RDF/S-Based P2P Database Systems
George Kokkinidis, Lefteris Sidirourgos, Vassilis Christophides . . . . . . . . Pages 59-81

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Part II Querying the Network
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Overview: Querying the Network
Steffen Staab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . .Pages 85-87

Chapter 4 Cayley DHTs — A Group-Theoretic Framework for Analyzing DHTs Based on Cayley Graphs
Changtao Qu, Wolfgang Nejdl, Matthias Kriesell . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .Pages 89-105

Chapter 5 Semantic Query Routing in Unstructured Networks Using Social Metaphors
Christoph Tempich, Steffen Staab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .Pages 107-123

Chapter 6 Expertise-Based Peer Selection
Ronny Siebes, Peter Haase, Frank van Harmelen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 125-141

Chapter 7 Personalized Information Access in a Bibliographic Peer-to-Peer System
Peter Haase, Marc Ehrig, Andreas Hotho, Björn Schnizler . . . . . . .. . . . . . Pages 143-157

Chapter 8 Designing Semantic Publish/Subscribe Networks Using Super-Peers
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Stratos Idreos, Manolis Koubarakis, Wolfgang Nejdl . .  Pages 159-179

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Part III Semantic Integration
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Overview: Semantic Integration
Heiner Stuckenschmidt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pages 183-184

Chapter 9 Semantic Coordination of Heterogeneous Classifications Schemas
Paolo Bouquet, Luciano Serafini, Stefano Zanobini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pages 185-200

Chapter 10 Semantic Mapping by Approximation
Zharko Aleksovski, Warner ten Kate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . Pages 201-215

Chapter 11 Satisficing Ontology Mapping
Marc Ehrig, Steffen Staab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pages 217-233

Chapter 12 Scalable, Peer-Based Mediation Across XML Schemas and Ontologies
Zachary G. Ives, Alon Y. Halevy, Peter Mork, Igor Tatarinov . . . . . . . . . . .Pages 235-258

Chapter 13 Semantic Gossiping: Fostering Semantic Interoperability in Peer Data Management Systems
Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Manfred Hauswirth . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 259-275

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Part IV Methodology and Systems
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Overview: Methodology and Systems
Steffen Staab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pages 279-282

Chapter 14 A Methodology for Distributed Knowledge Management Using Ontologies and Peer-to-Peer
Peter Mika . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . Pages 283-302

Chapter 15 Distributed Engineering of Ontologies (DILIGENT)
H. Sofia Pinto, Steffen Staab, Christoph Tempich, York Sure . . . . . . . . . . .Pages 303-322

Chapter 16 A Peer-to-Peer Solution for Distributed Knowledge Management
Matteo Bonifacio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . Pages 323-334

Chapter 17 Xarop, a Semantic Peer-to-Peer System for a Virtual Organization
Esteve Lladó, Immaculada Salamanca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 335-347

Chapter 18 Bibster — A Semantics-Based Bibliographic Peer-to-Peer System
Peter Haase, Björn Schnizler, Jeen Broekstra, Marc Ehrig, Frank van
Harmelen, Maarten Menken, Peter Mika, Michal Plechawski, Pawel Pyszlak,
Ronny Siebes, Steffen Staab, Christoph Tempich . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . Pages 349-363


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Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab
http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de