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PGSW-OS: a novel approach for resource management in a semantic web operating system based on a P2P grid architecture
Javanmardi S., Shojafar M., Shariatmadari S., Abawajy J., Singhal M. The Journal of Supercomputing69 (2):955-975,2014.Type:Article
Date Reviewed: Oct 28 2014

The paper presents a software and system experiment that exploits the synergy of web operating systems, the grid, and peer-to-peer (P2P) network solutions by putting them into a new framework. In addition, the paper proposes the use of semantic technologies to increase efficiency and effectiveness.

The authors outline a framework in which semantic technology, ontology, and description logic play important roles in resource management within networks. The paper discusses the architecture of nodes and networks, ontologies, and the concept of semantic similarity among sets of nodes, with references to well-known approaches. The contribution of the paper is to combine the distributed hash table protocol, the semantic overlay network, and the semantic similarity function to implement a semantic web operating system (OS). The authors claim that a semantic web OS provides advantages in accessing resources both in terms of performance as well as in the accuracy of finding them. The semantic web OS may yield an operating environment for end users in the form of cloud services, offering software tools in a distributed fashion. Semantic similarity is important in finding alternative appropriate resources in the case of no availability of the required one. The semantic similarity is formulated through the concept similarity graph, which exploits the ontologies. The benefits of the proposed approach are underpinned by performance measurement.

On the negative side, the description of ontologies and their use for the intended purposes lacks detail. There is an illustrative example for the assertion box (A-box) and the terminological box (T-box) (basic idea of description logic and thereby ontologies) that seems superficial. The presented solution seems sound, but the framework depicted in the paper does not have the details that may make the experiment convincing. The paper is worth reading for researchers in the areas of cloud, grid, and semantic web technologies.

Reviewer:  Bálint Molnár Review #: CR142867 (1501-0086)
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