A pure P2P approach to information integration

Distributed computing often needs to cope with information integration challenges. Up to now, several models have been proposed for information integration in heterogeneous, distributed and (loosely) dynamic environments. Nevertheless, in network environments where the actors and their information sources are characterized by high dynamism and non permanent connections, the traditional approaches are not adequate. In such a context, we believe that the recent Peer-to-Peer (P2P) distributed computing approach is an ideal solution. Despite several P2P applications/protocols have been realized, they are not able to exchange complex information and to cope with heterogeneity and information integration problems. This paper proposes an agent based cooperative information system in order to overcome these limitations into a decentralized P2P environment.