文档介绍：TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine!
Lecture Notes puter Science 2944
Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis, and J. van Leeuwen
TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine!
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TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine!
Karl Aberer Manolis Koubarakis
Vana Kalogeraki (Eds.)
Databases,
Information Systems,
and Peer-to-Peer
Computing
First International Workshop, DBISP2P 2003
Berlin, Germany, September 7 – 8, 2003
Revised Papers
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Preface
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is currently attracting enormous media attention,
spurred by the popularity of file sharing systems such as Napster, Gnutella and
Morpheus. In P2P systems a very large number of puting nodes
(the peers) pool together their resources and rely on each other for data and
services.
The wealth of business opportunities promised by works has genera-
ted much industrial interest recently, and has resulted in the creation of various
industrial projects, panies, and special interest groups. Researchers
from puting, networks, agents and databases have also e
excited about the P2P vision, and papers tackling open problems in this area
have started appearing in high-quality conferences and workshops.
Much of the recent research on P2P systems seems to be carried out by re-
search groups