Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing Third International Workshop, AP2PC 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004, Revised and Invited Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Moro, Gianluca (Editor), Bergamaschi, Sonia (Editor), Aberer, Karl (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3601
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Information storage and retrieval.; Artificial intelligence.; Computers and civilization.; Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Computers and Society.

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...