The Knowledge Grid is an intelligent and sustainable interconnection environment that consists of autonomous individuals, self-organized semantic communities, adaptive networking mechanisms, evolving semantic link networks keeping meaningful connection between individuals, flows for dynamic resource sharing, and mechanisms supporting effective resource management and providing appropriate knowledge services for learning, innovation, teamwork, problem solving, and decision making. This book presents its methodology, theory, models and applications systematically for the first time. Its second edition fulfills the ideal of the Knowledge Grid by increasing many up-to-date new contents, including: the systematic method of semantic link network that supports uncertainty management, discovery of semantic links and semantic communities, and autonomous semantic data model; semantic peer-to-peer infrastructures for efficient knowledge sharing; and, a new centrality measure of network and its application in e-science. This new edition will undoubtedly provide refreshing materials for researchers, academics, practitioners and students.

Table of Contents

Knowledge Grid Methodology; The Semantic Link Network; A Resource Space Model; The Single Semantic Image; Knowledge Flow; Exploring Scale-Free Network; Topological Centrality; P2P Semantic Link Network.