Supporting Social Networks With Agent-Based Services

Blogracy

Blogracy is an anonymous and uncensorable microblogging platform, built incrementally over BitTorrent (Cohen, 2003), a popular and resilient file-sharing service. The architecture of the platform is modular and is built around a module for basic file sharing and DHT operations, possibly exploiting an existing implementation, and another module providing a set of social services to the local user through a Web interface. Moreover, the platform provides two additional agent based modules respectively providing a set of pervasive services and a set of information retrieval and pushing services. In particular, the current prototype of Blogracy takes advantage of:

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  Vuze (Vuze, 2013), a popular BitTorrent client implemented in Java and available as open source software, for implementing the file sharing and DHT operations;

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  Open Social (OpenSocial and Gadgets Specification Group, 2013), a set of APIs supporting the sharing of social data, for implementing the social services;

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  JADE (Bellifemine et al., 2008), probably the most known agent development environment enabling the integration of agents and both knowledge and Internet-oriented technologies, for implementing the agent-based services. Figure 1 shows the Blogracy system architecture.

Figure 1.

System architecture