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Integration of heterogeneous information in the context of Internet is becoming a key activity to enable a more organized and semantically meaningful access to several kinds of information in the form of data sources, multimedia documents and web services. In NeP4B (Networked Peers for Business), a project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, we developed an approach for providing a uniform representation of data, multimedia and services, thus allowing users to obtain sets of data, multimedia documents and lists of webservices as query results. NeP4B is based on a P2P network of semantic peers, connected one with each other by means of automatically generated mappings. In this paper we present a new architecture for NeP4B, based on a Multi-Agent System. We claim that such a solution may be more efficient and effective, thanks to the agents autonomy and intelligence, in a dynamic environment, where sources are frequently added (or deleted) to (from) the network.
This work was partially supported by MUR co-funded project NeP4B ( http://www.dbgroup.unimo.it/nep4b ).
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Bergamaschi, S., Guerra, F., Mandreoli, F., Vincini, M. (2012). Working in a Dynamic Environment: The NeP4B Approach as a MAS. In: Beneventano, D., Despotovic, Z., Guerra, F., Joseph, S., Moro, G., de Pinninck, A.P. (eds) Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing. AP2PC AP2PC 2009 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6573. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31809-2_11
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