Towards Virtual Knowledge Communities in Peer-to-Peer Networks

Melanie Gnasa, Sascha Alda, Jasmin Grigull, Armin B. Cremers

Abstract: As a result of the anonymity in todays Web search, it is not possible to receive a personalized search result. Neither prior search results nor search results from other users are taken into consideration. In order to resolve this anonymity towards the search engine, a system is created which locally stores the search results in the scope of a peer-to-peer network. Using the Peer Search Memory (PeerSy) all relevant results are stored and associated with the corresponding queries. By this means, repeated access is facilitated. Furthermore, sharing of associations between queries and relevant results in the peer-to-peer network allows grouping of Virtual Knowledge Communities (VKC) in order to obtain a surplus value in knowledge sharing on the Web.