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Supporting Ad-Hoc Resource Sharing On The Web: A Peer-To-Peer Approach To Hypermedia Link Services, Jing Zhou, Wendy Hall, David De Roure, Vijay Dialani

Vijay Dialani

The key element to support ad-hoc resource sharing on the Web is to discover resources of interest. The hypermedia paradigm provides a way of overlaying a set of resources with additional information in the form of links to help people find other resources. However, existing hypermedia approaches primarily develop mechanisms to enable resource sharing in a fairly static, centralized way. Recent developments in distributed computing, on the other hand, introduced peer-to-peer (P2P) computing that is notable for employing distributed resources to perform a critical function in a more dynamic and ad-hoc scenario. We investigate the feasibility and potential benefits of …