Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing Second International Workshop, AP2PC 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003, Revised and Invited Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Moro, Gianluca (Editor), Sartori, Claudio (Editor), Singh, Munindar P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2872
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

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 servic...