A Social P2P Approach for Personal Knowledge Management in the Cloud [chapter]

Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo, Ana Fernández Vilas, Jose J. Pazos Arias, Sandra Servia Rodríguez
2012 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
The massive access to the Cloud poses new challenges for the cloud citizens to use services overcoming the risks of a new form of digital divide. What we envision is a socially orchestrated cloud, i.e. an ecosystem where the users put their experience and know-how (their personal knowledge) at the service of the social cloud, where social networks articulate the assistance to users. With his scenario in mind, this paper introduces a peer-to-peer solution to the problem of sharing personal
more » ... dge for social search. We propose a routing mechanism in a peers' network, which uses both information about the social relation among peers and their personal knowledge. Finally, we deploy the proposal over Facebook as a support network.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33618-8_77 fatcat:ypc27q3ww5crtj465z2ctuiita