Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing: 5th International Workshop, AP2PC 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers

ISBN-13: 9783540797043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 190 str.

Sam Joseph;Zoran Despotovic;Moro Gianluca

Opis

Peer-to-peer(P2P)computinghasattractedsigni?cantmediaattention, initially spurred by the popularity of ?le-sharing systems such as Napster, Gnutella, and Morpheus. MorerecentlysystemslikeBitTorrentandeDonkeyhavecontinuedto sustain that attention. New techniques such as distributed hash-tables (DHTs), semantic routing, and Plaxton Meshes are being combined with traditional c- cepts such as Hypercubes, Trust Metrics, and caching techniques to pool - gether the untapped computing power at the "edges" of the Internet. These new techniques and possibilities have generated a lot of interest in many industrial organizations, andhaveresultedin the creationof a P2Pworkinggrouponst- dardizationin this area (http: //www. irtf. org/charter?gtype=rg&group=p2prg). In P2P computing, peers and services forego central coordination and - namically organize themselves to support knowledge sharing and collaboration, in both cooperative and non-cooperative environments. The success of P2P s- tems strongly depends on a number of factors. First, the ability to ensure eq- table distribution of content and services. Economic and business models which rely on incentive mechanisms to supply contributions to the system are being developed, along with methods for controlling the "free riding" issue. Second, the ability to enforce provision of trusted services. Reputation-based P2P trust management models are becoming a focus of the research community as a - able solution. The trust models must balance both constraints imposed by the environment (e. g., scalability) and the unique properties of trust as a social and psychological phenomenon.

Spis treści

Invited Paper.- Information Flow Analysis in Autonomous Agent and Peer-to-Peer Systems for Self-organizing Electronic Health Records.- P2P Infrastructure.- Hybrid DHT Design for Mobile Environments.- DANTE: A Self-adapting Peer-to-Peer System.- The Exclusion of Malicious Routing Peers in Structured P2P Systems.- Agents in P2P.- Cooperative CBR System for Peer Agent Committee Formation.- Mobile Agent-Based Approach for Resource Discovery in Peer-to-Peer Networks.- P2P Search.- Chora: Expert-Based P2P Web Search.- K-link: A Peer-to-Peer Solution for Organizational Knowledge Management.- An Analysis of Interest-Community Facilitated Peer-to-Peer Search.- Applications.- Mitigating the Impact of Liars by Reflecting Peer’s Credibility on P2P File Reputation Systems.- A Comparative Study of Reasoning Techniques for Service Selection.- PROSA: P2P Resource Organisation by Social Acquaintances.- Reliable P2P File Sharing Service.- Studying Viable Free Markets in Peer-to-Peer File Exchange Applications without Altruistic Agents.- Distributed Multi-layered Network Management for NEC Using Multi-Agent Systems.- Facilitating Collaboration in a Distributed Software Development Environment Using P2P Architecture.- A Peer to Peer Grid Computing System Based on Mobile Agents.

Blurb

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing, AP2PC 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan, in May 2006, in the context of the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS 2006.

The 10 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions; they are fully revised to incorporate reviewers' comments and discussions at the workshop. The volume is organized in topical sections on P2P Infrastructure, agents in P2P, P2P search, and applications.