TY - BOOK ID - 5449017 TI - Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing AU - Moro, Gianluca AU - Sartori, Claudio AU - Singh, Munindar P AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2004 SN - 9783540240532 3540240535 9783540258407 9786610307937 1280307935 354025840X PB - Berlin, Heidelberg Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg DB - UniCat KW - Peer-to-peer architecture (Computer networks) KW - Intelligent agents (Computer software) KW - P2P (Réseaux d'ordinateurs) KW - Agents intelligents (Logiciels) KW - Congresses. KW - Congrès KW - Mechanical Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Electrical & Computer Engineering KW - Computer Science KW - Mechanical Engineering - General KW - Telecommunications KW - Information Technology KW - Artificial Intelligence KW - Computer Communication Networks. KW - Artificial intelligence. KW - Artificial Intelligence. KW - AI (Artificial intelligence) KW - Artificial thinking KW - Electronic brains KW - Intellectronics KW - Intelligence, Artificial KW - Intelligent machines KW - Machine intelligence KW - Thinking, Artificial KW - Bionics KW - Cognitive science KW - Digital computer simulation KW - Electronic data processing KW - Logic machines KW - Machine theory KW - Self-organizing systems KW - Simulation methods KW - Fifth generation computers KW - Neural computers KW - Computer communication systems. KW - Communication systems, Computer KW - Computer communication systems KW - Data networks, Computer KW - ECNs (Electronic communication networks) KW - Electronic communication networks KW - Networks, Computer KW - Teleprocessing networks KW - Data transmission systems KW - Digital communications KW - Electronic systems KW - Information networks KW - Telecommunication KW - Cyberinfrastructure KW - Network computers KW - Distributed processing UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5449017 AB - 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. ER -