Uma rede ponto a ponto semântica para composição de serviços em domínios científicos

Abstract

Significant changes are occurring in scientific scenario. In particular, there is a higher collaboration among the researchers, which leads to increase the use of processing techniques and the necessity of sharing results and observations, and with that, building and executing scientific experiments. However, finding and/or specifying scientific applications is not trivial and many scientists lack the computational knowledge necessary to compose their experiments Using technologies as semantic web and peer to peer networks in the eScience context, the objective of this work is to develop a platform where the researchers can work with heterogeneous information, accessing scientific communities according to their interests, and creating new experiments based on composition of semantic web services. This work presents the e-ScienceNet approach, which is a semantic peer to peer network, to help scientists in their research. Considering the architectural model, a prototype was specified, which was used in four "Proof of Concept" (PoC). These proofs of concepts aims to obtain evidences of the viability of the use of this proposal on scientific scenarios. From these proofs of concepts, it was possible to obtain evidences of the viability of use of the e-ScienceNet, assisting and facilitating the development of scientific experiments while still providing mechanisms for sharing and searching for resources. However, an evaluation in a real environment is still needed.