Peer-Data Management Systems: Plumbing for the Semantic Web

The vision of the Semantic Web [Berners-Lee et al.2001 ] offers exciting challenges for research in Artificial Intelligence. In a nutshell, the Semantic Web envisions agents coordinating complex tasks over the Intemet. The coordination is facilitated by annotating the data and services on a web destination with rich ontologies, hence enabling semantic interoperation.