ABSTRACT:
In the present global society, information has to be exchange-
able in open and dynamic environments, where interacting
peers do not necessarily share a common understanding of
the world at hand, and do not have a complete picture of
the context where the interaction occurs. In this paper, we
present the Esteem approach and the related peer archi-
tecture for emergent semantics in dynamic and multi-know-
ledge environments. In Esteem, semantic communities are
built around declared interests in the form of manifesto on-
tologies, and their autonomous nature is preserved by al-
lowing a shared semantics to naturally emerge from peer
interactions.