Sonia Bergamaschi

Gianluca Moro

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 their potential to harness the computing power of the hosts composing the network and make their under-utilized resources available to others. Although researchers working on distributed computing, multiagent systems, databases and networks have been using similar concepts for a long time, it is only recently that papers motivated by the current P2P paradigm have started appearing in high-quality conferences and workshops. Research in agent systems in particular appears to be most relevant because, since their inception, multiagent systems have always been thought of as networks of peers. The multiagent paradigm can thus be superimposed on the P2P architecture, where agents embody the description of the task environments, the decision-support capabilities, the collective behavior, and the interaction protocols of each peer. The emphasis in this context on decentralization, user autonomy, ease and speed of growth that gives P2P its advantages also leads to significant potential problems. Most prominent among these problems are coordination, the ability of an agent to make decisions on its own actions in the context of activities of other agents, and scalability, the value of the P2P systems lies in how well they scale along several dimensions, including complexity, heterogeneity of peers, robustness, traffic redistribution, and so on. This volume presents the fully revised papers presented at the Third International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing, AP2PC 2004, held in New York City on July 19, 2004 in the context of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2004). The volume is organized in topical sections on P2P networks and search performance, emergent communities and social behaviours, semantic integration, mobile P2P systems, adaptive systems, agent-based resource discovery, as well as trust and reputation.

Third International Workshop, AP2PC 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 19, 2004, Revised and Invited Papers

Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing

Xiaofang Zhou

Robert Meersman

Tharam Dillon

Herve Panetto

Alois Ferscha

Siani Pearson

Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

Peter Dadam

Isabel F Cruz

The two-volume set LNCS 7565 and 7566 constitutes the refereed proceedings of three confederated international conferences: Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2012), Distributed Objects and Applications - Secure Virtual Infrastructures (DOA-SVI 2012), and Ontologies, DataBases and Applications of SEmantics (ODBASE 2012) held as part of OTM 2012 in September 2012 in Rome, Italy. The 53 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 169 submissions. The 22 full papers included in the first volume constitute the proceedings of CoopIS 2012 and are organized in topical sections on business process design; process verification and analysis; service-oriented architectures and cloud; security, risk, and prediction; discovery and detection; collaboration; and 5 short papers.

Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2012, Rome, Italy, September 10-14, 2012. Proceedings, Part I

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012

Sam Joseph

Jean-Henry Morin

Aris M. Ouksel

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 3rd and 4th International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing, DBISP2P 2005 and DBISP2P 2006, held in Trondheim, Norway, in August 2005 and in Seoul, Korea, in September 2006, as satellite events of VLDB, the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases.

International Workshops, DBISP2P 2005/2006, Trondheim, Norway, August 28-29, 2006, Revised Selected Papers

Databases, Information Systems, and Peer-to-Peer Computing

Claudio Sartori

Domenico Beneventano

Obiettivo principale del volume è fornire allo studente i fondamenti della programmazione dei calcolatori elettronici e in particolare, sviluppare un metodo di soluzione rigoroso di classi diverse di problemi. Particolare accento è posato sui costrutti fondamentali e sulla possibilità di costruire soluzioni basate sul riuso del software. Vengono descritte l'architettura funzionale di un calcolatore e le fasi di trasformazione necessarie affinchè un procedimento risolutivo di un problema, denominato algoritmo, possa essere trasformato in un programma eseguibile da un calcolatore. Vengono poi presentati i costrutti fondamentali della programmazione strutturata, le strutture delle statiche e dinamiche, gli algoritmi risolutivi di classi generali di problemi, utilizzando come riferimento il linguaggio di programmazione C. Il testo è completato inoltre da: elementi di complessità di algoritmi, codifica binaria dell'informazione, trasformazione di basi ed esempi svolti.

Fondamenti di Informatica

Zoran Despotovic

Moro Gianluca

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing, AP2PC 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan, in May 2006, in the context of the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS 2006. The 10 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions; they are fully revised to incorporate reviewers' comments and discussions at the workshop. The volume is organized in topical sections on P2P Infrastructure, agents in P2P, P2P search, and applications.

5th International Workshop, AP2PC 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers

Sonia Bergamaschi

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