Emergent semantics and cooperation in multi−knowledge environments: The ESTEEM architecture
Carola Aiello‚ Roberto�Baldoni‚ Devis Bianchini and�Cristiana Bolchini and�Silvia Bonomi‚ Silvana Castano‚ Tiziana Catarci‚ Carlo A. Curino‚ Valeria de Antonellis‚ Alfio Ferrara‚ Michele Melchiori‚ Diego Milano‚ Stefano Montanelli and�Giorgio Orsi‚ Antonella Poggi‚ Leonardo�Querzoni‚ Elisa Quintarelli‚ Rosalba Rossato‚ Denise Salvi‚ Monica Scannapieco‚ Fabio A. Schreiber‚ Letizia Tanca and Sara T. Pergiovanni
Abstract
In the present global society, information has to be exchangeable in open and dynamic environments, where interacting peers do not necessarily share a common understanding of the world at hand, and do not have a complete picture of the context where the interaction occurs. In this paper, we present the Esteem approach and the related peer architecture for emergent semantics in dynamic and multi-knowledge environments. In Esteem, semantic communities are built around declared interests in the form of manifesto ontologies, and their autonomous nature is preserved by allowing a shared semantics to naturally emerge from peer interactions.