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Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing

Second International Workshop, AP2PC 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003, Revised and Invited Papers

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2872)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): AP2PC: International Workshop on Agents and P2P Computing

Conference proceedings info: AP2PC 2003.

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Table of contents (20 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Paradigm Integration and Challenges

    1. Information Acquisition Through an Integrated Paradigm: Agent + Peer-to-Peer

      • Beng Chin Ooi, Wee Siong Ng, Kian-Lee Tan, AoYing Zhou
      Pages 1-12
  3. Trust

    1. Bayesian Network Trust Model in Peer-to-Peer Networks

      • Yao Wang, Julita Vassileva
      Pages 23-34
    2. Agent-Based Social Assessment of Shared Resources

      • Matthias Nickles, Gerhard Weiß
      Pages 35-40
    3. A Passport-Like Service over an Agent-Based Peer-to-Peer Network

      • Shi-Cho Cha, Yuh-Jzer Joung, Yu-En Lue
      Pages 41-46
  4. Self-Organization

    1. A Robust and Scalable Peer-to-Peer Gossiping Protocol

      • Spyros Voulgaris, Márk Jelasity, Maarten van Steen
      Pages 47-58
    2. Group Formation Among Peer-to-Peer Agents: Learning Group Characteristics

      • Elth Ogston, Benno Overeinder, Maarten van Steen, Frances Brazier
      Pages 59-70
    3. A Pheromone-Based Coordination Mechanism Applied in Peer-to-Peer

      • Kurt Schelfthout, Tom Holvoet
      Pages 71-76
  5. Incentives

    1. Incentive Mechanisms for Peer-to-Peer Systems

      • Bin Yu, Munindar P. Singh
      Pages 77-88
    2. A Taxonomy of Incentive Patterns

      • Philipp Obreiter, Jens Nimis
      Pages 89-100
  6. Search and Systems

    1. P2P MetaData Search Layers

      • Sam Joseph
      Pages 101-112
    2. A Peer-to-Peer Information System for the Semantic Web

      • Sonia Bergamaschi, Francesco Guerra, Maurizio Vincini
      Pages 113-122
    3. Fuzzy Cost Modeling for Peer-to-Peer Systems

      • Bo Ling, Wee Siong Ng, YanFeng Shu, AoYing Zhou
      Pages 138-143
    4. A P2P Approach to ClassLoading in Java

      • Daryl Parker, David Cleary
      Pages 144-149
  7. Adaptive Applications

    1. Multi-agent Interaction Technology for Peer-to-Peer Computing in Electronic Trading Environments

      • Martin Purvis, Mariusz Nowostawski, Stephen Cranefield, Marcos Oliveira
      Pages 150-161
    2. K-Trek: A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Distribute Knowledge in Large Environments

      • Paolo Busetta, Paolo Bouquet, Giordano Adami, Matteo Bonifacio, Francesco Palmieri
      Pages 174-185
  8. Mobile Agents

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About this book

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is currently attracting enormous public attention, spurred by the popularity of file-sharing systems such as Napster, Gnutella, Morpheus, Kaza, and several others. In P2P systems, a very large number of autonomous computing nodes, the peers, rely on each other for services. P2P networks are emerging as a new distributed computing paradigm because of their potential to harness the computing power and the storage capacity of the hosts composing the network, and because they realize a completely open decentralized environment where everybody can join in autonomously. Although researchers working on distributed computing, multiagent systems, databases, and networks have been using similar concepts for a long time, it is only recently that papers motivated by the current P2P paradigm have started appearing in high quality conferences and workshops. In particular, research on agent systems appears to be most relevant because multiagent systems have always been thought of as networks of autonomous peers since their inception. Agents, which can be superimposed on the P2P architecture, embody the description of task environments, decision-support capabilities, social behaviors, trust and reputation, and interaction protocols among peers. The emphasis on decentralization, autonomy, ease, and speed of growth that gives P2P its advantages also leads to significant potential problems. Most prominent among these are coordination – the ability of an agent to make decisions on its own actions in the context of activities of other agents, and scalability – the value of the P2P systems in how well they self-organize so as to scale along several dimensions, including complexity, heterogeneity of peers, robustness, traffic redistribution, etc.

This book brings together an introduction, three invited articles, and revised versions of the papers presented at the Second International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing, AP2PC 2003, held in Melbourne, Australia, July 2003.

Keywords

  • Bayesian network
  • Fuzzy
  • Host
  • Peer
  • Routing
  • ad-hoc networks
  • complexity
  • learning
  • mobile agents
  • mobile code
  • peer-to-peer agent systems
  • peer-to-peer computing
  • peer-to-peer systems
  • self-organization
  • semantic web

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna, Cesena (FC), Italy

    Gianluca Moro

  • Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna, Italy

    Claudio Sartori

  • Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

    Munindar P. Singh

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing

  • Book Subtitle: Second International Workshop, AP2PC 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003, Revised and Invited Papers

  • Editors: Gianluca Moro, Claudio Sartori, Munindar P. Singh

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b104265

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-24053-2Published: 03 December 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-25840-7Published: 18 November 2004

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 205

  • Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Artificial Intelligence

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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