General-Purpose Computing on a Semantic Network Substrate

This article presents a model of general-purpose computing on a semantic network substrate. The concepts presented are applicable to any semantic network representation. However, due to the standards and technological infrastructure devoted to the Semantic Web effort, this article is presented from this point of view. In the proposed model of computation, the application programming interface, the run-time program, and the computing virtual machine are all represented in the Resource Description Framework (RDF). The ramifications of using the same substrate to represent the high and low-level aspects of computing are numerous. The implementation of the concepts presented provides a practical computing paradigm that leverages the highly-distributed and standardized representational-layer of the Semantic Web.