METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION AND QUERIES IN INFORMATION SPACES

摘要

An approach is provided for managing symmetric and asymmetric communication among information spaces with respect to their distributed nature. An information space is composed of semantic information brokers that handle internal processes of the information space. One or more of the semantic information brokers compute a stability factor corresponding to each of a plurality of semantic information brokers in an information space (601 ). The on eor more semantic information brokers then select one or more of the plurality of the semantic information brokers as a master semantic information broker based on the computed stability factors (603, 605). The one or more master semantic information brokers manage communication among the plurality of semantic information brokers.