Towards a communication and coordination infrastructure for open and dynamic distributed systems

The coordination between agents will be vital for ensuring the success of their interactions in open and dynamic distributed systems. Tuplespace offers a coordination model for communication between autonomous entities. However, in a heterogeneous environment, agents must be able to exchange information with some assurance that they have a common meaning, this can pose some limitations. In this paper we introduce semantic tuplespaces (STS) based on a combination of semantic Web technologies and tuplespace computing. It acts as a middleware to enable communication and coordination based on the principle of publish and retrieve of semantic information.