Intelligent Agents and P2P Semantic Web

Summary form only given. The semantic Web aims to address the limitations of the World Wide Web by providing content that can be interpreted by both humans and machines, thus enabling intelligent agents acting on behalf of humans and/or other agents to discover and reason with the available information in Berners-Lee, J. (2001). While there has been tremendous progress on the infrastructure development for the Semantic Web, it has been observed that comparable progress in the use of the agent technology is still lacking by Hendler, J. (2007). In the mean time, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have been very successful by making available and redistributing huge amounts of data among millions of networked computers. This naturally leads to the concept of a distributed Semantic Web archive integrated with the existing Semantic Web that resides on a P2P network of user nodes (hence so-called P2P Semantic Web).