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The ESTEEM platform: enabling P2P semantic collaboration through emerging collective knowledge

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In this paper, we present Esteem (Emergent Semantics and cooperaTion in multi-knowledgE EnvironMents), a community-based P2P platform for supporting semantic collaboration among a set of independent peers, without prior reciprocal knowledge and no predefined relationships. Goal of Esteem is to go beyond the existing state-of-the-art solutions for P2P knowledge sharing and to provide an integrated platform for both data and service discovery. A distinguishing feature of Esteem is the use of semantic communities to explicitly give shape to the collective knowledge and expertise of peer groups with similar interests. Key techniques of Esteem will be presented in the paper and concern: shuffling-based communication, ontology and service matchmaking, context management, and quality-aware data integration. An application example of data and service discovery in the health-care domain will be presented, by also discussing results of system and user evaluation.

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  1. http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~esteem/

  2. http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/

  3. http://umlsinfo.nlm.nih.gov/

  4. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html/

  5. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/Snomed/snomed_main.html/

  6. HL7 (Health Level 7): http://www.hl7.org/.

  7. http://www.neurogrid.net/

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Acknowledgements

The Esteem platform has been developed within a PRIN Project funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. Authors wish to thank anonymous referees for their insightful comments that led us to an improved presentation of the paper. A special acknowledgement is due to Carlo A. Curino, Diego Milano, Giorgio Orsi, Antonella Poggi, Leonardo Querzoni, Denise Salvi, Sara Tucci for their work in the Esteem project.

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  1. Università degli Studi di Milano - DICo, Via Comelico, 39, 20135, Milano, Italy

    Stefano Montanelli, Silvana Castano & Alfio Ferrara

  2. Università di Roma “La Sapienza” - DIS, Via Ariosto, 25, 00185, Roma, Italy

    Carola Aiello, Roberto Baldoni, Silvia Bonomi, Tiziana Catarci & Monica Scannapieco

  3. Università degli Studi di Brescia - DEA, Via Branze, 38, 25123, Brescia, Italy

    Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis & Michele Melchiori

  4. Politecnico di Milano - DEI, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Cristiana Bolchini, Elisa Quintarelli, Fabio A. Schreiber & Letizia Tanca

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Montanelli, S., Bianchini, D., Aiello, C. et al. The ESTEEM platform: enabling P2P semantic collaboration through emerging collective knowledge. J Intell Inf Syst 36, 167–195 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10844-010-0125-4

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