A Peer-to-Peer Network for Bibliographic Information Retrieval

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing has rapidly evolved into an effective computing paradigm for people to exchange information and share knowledge within a domain. It has been widely recognized that bibliographic information plays an increasingly important role for scientific research. This paper presents OBIRE, a P2P network for bibliographic information retrieval. To improve the accuracy of OBIRE in information retrieval, semantic web technologies are utilized. For a user query, OBIRE computes the degree of matches to indicate the similarity of a published record to the query. When searching for information, users can incorporate their domain knowledge into their queries which guides OBIRE to discover the bibliographic records that are of most interest of users. OBIRE is evaluated from the aspects of precision and recall, and experimental results show the effectiveness of OBIRE in bibliographic information retrieval.