Topics in Database Systems: Data Management in Peer-to-Peer Systems
 		Spring Semester 2005
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   			ASSIGNMENT 5 
	              Semantic Overlays 
	       	      Due: April 12, 2005

Read the following papers and prepare a 30' presentation.
Structure your presentation as follows:
(i) overlay topology (ii) route (iii) join.
Add a couple of slides on whether any of the
replication schemes we have been discussing can be applied
and how.

The papers are online at the course webpage.

Group 1
Read the following paper:
Efficient Content Location Using Interest-Based
Locality in Peer-to-Peer Systems
Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai Bruce Maggs Hui Zhang


Group 2
Read the following paper:
Associative Search in Peer to Peer Networks:
Harnessing Latent Semantics
Edith Cohen, Amos Fiat, Haim Kaplan

Group 3
Read the following paper:
Semantic Overlay Networks for P2P Systems
Arturo Crespo and Hector Garcia-Molina