Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing Third International Workshop, AP2P
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is attracting enormous media attention, spurred by the popularity of file sharing systems such as Napster, Gnutella, and Morpheus. The peers are autonomous, or as some call them, first-class citizens. P2P networks are emerging
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Gianluca Moro Sonia Bergamaschi Karl Aberer (Eds.)
Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing Third International Workshop, AP2PC 2004 New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004 Revised and Invited Papers
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Gianluca Moro University of Bologna Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems Via Venezia, 52, 47023 Cesena (FC), Italy E-mail: [email protected] Sonia Bergamaschi University of Modena and Reggio Emilia IEIIT CNR, Dip. di Ingegneria dell’Informazione via Vignolese, 905, 41100 Modena, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Karl Aberer Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) School of Computer and Communication Sciences 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland E-mail: karl.aberer@epfl.ch
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Preface
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is attracting enormous media attention, spurred by the popularity of file sharing systems such as Napster, Gnutella, and Morpheus. The peers are autonomous, or as some call them, first-class citizens. P2P networks are emerging as a new distributed computing paradigm for their potential to harness the computing power of the hosts composing the network and make their underutilized resources available to others. This possibility has generated a lot of interest in many industrial organizations that have already launched important projects. In P2P systems, peer and Web services in the role of resources become shared and combined to enable new capabilities greater than the sum of the parts. This means that services can be developed and treated as pools of methods that can be composed dynamically. The decentralized nature of P2P computing makes it also ideal for economic environments that foster knowledge sharing and collaboration as well as cooperative and non-cooperative behavi
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