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Self-organizing ants find new paths to scalability
1 September 2009
Robert Tolksdorf

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The principles of locality and decentralization found in nature could be the key to managing Web data traffic, as shown in initial experiments with a semantic store.

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Robert Tolksdorf
Networked Information Systems, Freie Universität Berlin
http://www.ag-nbi.de

Robert Tolksdorf graduated in computer science from the Technische Universität Berlin and was appointed as a professor at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2002. His areas of work and interest are semantic technologies, coordination and self-organization.

References

http://wiki.dbpedia.org/About DBpedia overview.

Ronaldo Menezes and Robert Tolksdorf, A new approach to scalable Linda systems based on swarms, Proc. ACM Symp. Appl. Comput., pp. 375-379, 2003.

Robert Tolksdorf and Anne Augustin, Self-organisation in a store for semantic information, J. Software 4. In press.

Sebastian Koske, Swarm approaches for semantic triple clustering and retrieval in distributed RDF spaces, 2009. Tech. Rep. B-09-04B FU Berlin, Institut für Informatik

DOI: 10.2417/2200908.1766