Agents and peer-to-peer computing : first international workshop, AP2PC 2002, Bologna, Italy, July 15, 2002 : revised and invited papers

Peer-to-peer (p2p) Computing Is Currently Attracting Enormous Public Attention, Spurred By The Popularity Of File-sharing Systems Such As Napster, Gnutella, And Morpheus. 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 Of The Hosts Composing The Network, And Because They Make Their Underutilized Resources Available To Each Other. This Book Brings Together Three Especially Commissioned Invited Articles, An Introduction, And Revised Versions Of The Papers Presented At The 1st International Workshop On Agents And Peer-to-peer Computing, Ap2pc 2002, Held In Bologna, Italy In July 2002. The Book Is Organized Into Topical Sections On Peer-to-peer Services, Discovery And Delivery Of Trustworthy Services, And Search And Cooperation In Peer-to-peer Agent Systems. Agents And Peer-to-peer Computing: A Promising Combination Of Paradigms / Gianluca Moro, Aris M. Ouksel And Claudio Sartori -- Peer-to-peer Computing For Information Systems / Munindar P. Singh -- Peer Services: From Description To Invocation / Manuel Oriol. Gianluca Moro, Manolis Koubarakis (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing: A Promising Combination of Paradigms....Pages 1-14 Peer-to-Peer Computing for Information Systems....Pages 15-20 Peer Services: From Description to Invocation....Pages 21-32 Execution Environment of Peer-to-Peer Services in a Mobile Environment....Pages 33-44 An Agent-Based Approach for Trustworthy Service Location....Pages 45-56 Trust-Aware Delivery of Composite Goods....Pages 57-68 Engineering an Agent-Based Peer-to-Peer Resource Discovery System....Pages 69-80 Peer-to-Peer Paradigm for a Semantic Search Engine....Pages 81-86 Modeling and Evaluating Cooperation Strategies in P2P Agent Systems....Pages 87-99 A Distributed Implementation of the SWAN Peer-to-Peer Look-Up System Using Mobile Agents....Pages 100-111 HyperCuP — Hypercubes, Ontologies, and Efficient Search on Peer-to-Peer Networks....Pages 112-124 Messor: Load-Balancing through a Swarm of Autonomous Agents....Pages 125-137 Market Models for P2P Content Distribution....Pages 138-143 The Resource Management Framework: A System for Managing Metadata in Decentralized Networks Using Peer-to-Peer Technology....Pages 144-149 Using an O-Telos Peer to Provide Reasoning Capabilities in an RDF-Based P2P-Environment....Pages 150-157 A Mobile Multi-agent System for Distributed Computing....Pages 158-163 Implementation of a Micro Web Server for Peer-to-Peer Applications....Pages 164-169 Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is currently attracting enormous public attention, spurred by the popularity of file-sharing systems such as Napster, Gnutella, and Morpheus. 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 of the hosts composing the network, and because they make their underutilized resources available to each other. Three especially commissioned invited articles appear in this volume: an introduction, and revised versions of the papers presented at the 1st International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing, AP2PC 2002, held in Bologna, Italy in July 2002. The book is organized into topical sections on peer-to-peer services, discovery and delivery of trustworthy services, and search and cooperation in peer-to-peer agent systems.