Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing First International Workshop, AP2PC 2002, Bologna, Italy, July, 2002, Revised and Invited Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Moro, Gianluca (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Koubarakis, Manolis (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 2530
• Subjects: Computer communication systems.; Artificial intelligence.; Information storage and retrieval.; Application software.; Computers and civilization.; Information technology.; Business-Data processing.; Computer Communication Networks.; Artificial Intelligence.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Computers and Society.; IT in Business.

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 em...