Towards a tuplespace-based middleware for the Semantic Web

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Tolksdorf, Robert^; | Nixon, Lyndon | Simperl, Elena

Affiliations: AG Netzbasierte Informationssysteme, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustr. 9, D-14195 Berlin, Germany | STI Innsbruck, ICT – Technologie Park Innsbruck, 2nd Floor, Technikerstraße 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria

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Abstract: The Semantic Web is about a Web which contains data which is machine-processable rather than human-interpretable. This makes new demands upon the Web architecture such as a standardized interface for access to this knowledge (how to interact), model and vocabulary-based mediation (how to understand) and semantic-based distribution (how to find). We present a middleware based on the concepts of co-ordination and space-based computing as a proposed part of the necessary Semantic Web architecture and outline its usage in the Web-based utilization of distributed knowledge.

Keywords: Coordination, middleware, tuplespaces, Linda, space-based computing, Semantic Web

DOI: 10.3233/WIA-2008-0139

Journal: Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 235-251, 2008