Tuplespace-based computing for the Semantic Web: a survey of the state-of-the-art

Semantic technologies promise to solve many challenging problems of the present Web applications. As they achieve a feasible level of maturity, they become increasingly accepted in various business settings at enterprise level. By contrast, their usability in open environments such as the Web-with respect to issues such as scalability, dynamism and openness--still requires additional investigation. In particular, Semantic Web services have inherited the Web service communication model, which is primarily based on synchronous message exchange technology such as remote procedure call (RPC), thus being incompatible with the REST (REpresentational State Transfer) architectural model of the Web. Recent advances in the field of middleware propose `semantic tuplespace computing' as an instrument for coping with this situation. Arguing that truly Webcompliant Web service communication should be based, analogously to the conventional Web, on shared access to persistently published data in...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: KER
• Authors: Lyndon J. B. Nixon, Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl, Reto Krummenacher, Francisco Martín-Recuerda
• Keywords: KER 2008, Present Web Applications, Web Service, Web Service Communication