Databases, Information Systems, and Peer-to-Peer Computing First International Workshop, DBISP2P 2003 Berlin, Germany, September 7 - 8, 2003 Revised Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Aberer, Karl (Editor), Koubarakis, Manolis (Editor), Kalogeraki, Vana (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2944
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Computers.; Database management.; Information storage and retrieval.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Theory of Computation.; Database Management.; Computer Communication Networks.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

Peer-to-peer(P2P)computingiscurrentlyattractingenormousmediaattention, spurred by the popularity of ?le sharing systems such as Napster, Gnutella and Morpheus. In P2P systems a very large number of autonomous computing nodes (the peers) pool together their resources and rely on each other for data a...