Distributed Resource Sharing using Self-Organized Peer-to-Peer Networks and Languages from Information Retrieval∗

A useful computational problem that can be solved effectively and efficiently through self-organization techniques is distributed resource sharing in the Web. The architecture we envision supports both query and publish/subscribe functionality using languages from Information Retrieval. We propose to approach this problem using ideas from selforganized peer-to-peer networks and especially distributed hash tables like Chord. This paper concentrates only on how to offer the envisaged publish/subscribe functionality and discusses our current results.