Section: Scientific Foundations

Models for Web data management

Use of the Web to share personal data is increasing rapidly with the emergence of Web 2.0 and social network applications. This creates a particularly challenging setting for data management since the data/knowledge is distributed among a large number of peers and can take many forms (e.g. localization information, ontologies, annotations, access control), and it is often necessary to combine data/knowledge from several peers in order to answer queries. We aim to develop a formal framework for this setting that will enable peers to concurrently reason about global data management activities and cooperate in solving specific tasks.