A Community-Based Approach for Application Composition in a Peer-to-Peer Environment

The design of composite applications by combining existing services with known semantics is an ongoing topic in current research. Several studies are aimed at providing service description models and standards, service discovery and matching etc. However, service composition in distributed dynamic environments such as P2P has received little attention from the research communities. In this paper we present a design framework for composing services, taking in particular into account different ways for building peer-communities based on network or services characteristics.