ABSTRACT

Peer-to-peer systems are evolving with new information-system architectures, leading to the idea that the principles of decentralization and self-organization will offer new approaches in informatics, especially for systems that scale with the number of users or for which central authorities do not prevail. This book describes a new way of building

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|8 pages

On Integrating Data in the Internet Era

chapter 3|10 pages

Peer-to-Peer Information Management

chapter 4|32 pages

Semantic Gossiping

chapter 5|12 pages

Self-Repairing Semantic Networks

chapter 6|32 pages

Probabilistic Message Passing

chapter 11|4 pages

Conclusions