A P2P Distributed Adaptive Directory

Abstract. We describe a P2P system that offers a distributed, cooperative and adaptive environment for bookmark sharing. DAD offers an adaptive environment since it provides suggestions about the navigation based on (a) the bookmarks, (b) the feedback implicitly provided by users and (c) the structure of the Web. Our system is fully scalable because of its peer-to-peer architecture and provides, also, an infrastructure to build easily P2P overlay networks.

Architecture of a P2P Distributed Adaptive Directory

Bookmarks are, nowadays, an important aid to navigation since they represent an easy way to reduce the cognitive load of managing and typing URLs. All the browsers have always provided, since the very beginning of the WWW, friendly ways of managin