A P2P Platform for Socially Intelligent Web Service Publication and Discovery

The ability of service providers to adequately describe and publish their Web services is a critical factor to the success in their discovery by interested parties. To date, most of the efforts made towards this direction have mainly focused on the use of ontologies. However, the resulted approaches impose centralized control of the ontology vocabularies and/or schemas, suffer from considerable interoperability issues and require complex, heavyweight technologies. In this paper we present our ongoing work on a peer-to-peer platform supporting publication and discovery of Web services in a socially intelligent manner. The novelty of our approach is that it combines the P2P architecture with the principles of the social Web to enable autonomous, decentralized semantic annotation and maintenance of Web service descriptions, through the collective intelligence emerging by the social networking interactions between service providers and requesters.