Managing Collective Intelligence in Semantic Communities of Interest

Reference P2p Architecture And Knowledge Model

In the field of P2P systems, the notion of community refers to the capability of the network to autonomously recognize and aggregate groups of peers with common interests and similar resources to share (Castano & Montanelli, 2005; Gu & Wei, 2006). We borrow this notion of P2P community and we define a semantic community of interest, from now on simply called CoI, as a community of peers where the term “semantic” denotes that the peers participating to the community agree on the “meaning” of the resources to share, and such a meaning is formalized through an ontology-based manifesto. The manifesto gives shape to the collective intelligence of a CoI, which is gradually set up in a collaborative way through progressive enrichments performed by all the community members.