TY - BOOK ID - 5449953 TI - Agents and peer-to-peer computing : third international workshop, AP2PC 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004 : revised and invited papers AU - Moro, Gianluca. AU - Bergamaschi, Sonia. AU - Aberer, Karl. AU - AP2PC 2004 PY - 2005 SN - 9783540297550 3540297553 3540316574 PB - Berlin : Springer, 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 - Computer Science KW - Mechanical Engineering - General KW - Telecommunications KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Mechanical Engineering KW - Electrical & Computer Engineering KW - Information Technology KW - Artificial Intelligence KW - Computer science. KW - Computer communication systems. KW - Information storage and retrieval. KW - Artificial intelligence. KW - Computers and civilization. KW - Computer Science. KW - Computer Communication Networks. KW - Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). KW - Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). KW - Information Storage and Retrieval. KW - Computers and Society. KW - Civilization and computers KW - Civilization 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 - 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 - Informatics KW - Science KW - Distributed processing KW - Information storage and retrieva. KW - Artificial Intelligence. KW - Information storage and retrieval systems. KW - Automatic data storage KW - Automatic information retrieval KW - Automation in documentation KW - Computer-based information systems KW - Data processing systems KW - Data storage and retrieval systems KW - Discovery systems, Information KW - Information discovery systems KW - Information processing systems KW - Information retrieval systems KW - Machine data storage and retrieval KW - Mechanized information storage and retrieval systems KW - Computer systems KW - Electronic information resources KW - Data libraries KW - Digital libraries KW - Information organization KW - Information retrieval KW - Application software. KW - Application computer programs KW - Application computer software KW - Applications software KW - Apps (Computer software) KW - Computer software UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5449953 AB - 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 under-utilized resources available to others. 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. Research in agent systems in particular appears to be most relevant because, since their inception, multiagent systems have always been thought of as networks of peers. The multiagent paradigm can thus be superimposed on the P2P architecture, where agents embody the description of the task environments, the decision-support capabilities, the collective behavior, and the interaction protocols of each peer. The emphasis in this context on decentralization, user autonomy, ease and speed of growth that gives P2P its advantages also leads to significant potential problems. Most prominent among these problems 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 lies in how well they scale along several dimensions, including complexity, heterogeneity of peers, robustness, traffic redistribution, and so on. This volume presents the fully revised papers presented at the Third International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing, AP2PC 2004, held in New York City on July 19, 2004 in the context of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2004). The volume is organized in topical sections on P2P networks and search performance, emergent communities and social behaviours, semantic integration, mobile P2P systems, adaptive systems, agent-based resource discovery, as well as trust and reputation. ER -