The smartest space of all: A global space of (machine-understandable) knowledge

Abstract

Internet computing is entering a new era, and the traditional human targeted World Wide Web slowly but surely moves towards a Web of billions of services, where the Web resources become entities in a global service-oriented architecture. In such a world of services, it is the service that counts for a customer and not the software or hardware components that implement the application. Current service-oriented architectures are still very much restricted in their application context to corporate solutions, while a Web with billions of heterogeneous and distributed service and content providers and consumers has requirements that call for specialized solutions. With our work on Triple Space Computing we aim at solutions to the Service Web challenges by integrating technology from tuplespace computing (blackboards), the Semantic Web and Web services. This unique synergy of technology is researched in the EC STREP TripCom and is seen as the fundamental layer for the coordination and communication of services in future Internet systems. Triple Space facilitates the reusability and integration of heterogenous knowledge, the lightweight orchestration of services, and thus enables large scale collaborative solutions in a scalable, robust and easily maintainable way. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.