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 services. P2P networks are emerging
as a new distributed computing paradigm because of their potential
to harness the computing power and the storage capacity of the
hosts composing the network, and because they realize a completely
open decentralized environment where everybody can join in
autonomously. 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. In particular, research
on agent systems appears to be most relevant because multiagent
systems have always been thought of as networks of autonomous peers
since their inception. Agents, which can be superimposed on the P2P
architecture, embody the description of task environments,
decision-support capabilities, social behaviors, trust and
reputation, and interaction protocols among peers. The emphasis on
decentralization, autonomy, ease, and speed of growth that gives
P2P its advantages also leads to significant potential problems.
Most prominent among these 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 in
how well they self-organize so as to scale along several
dimensions, including complexity, heterogeneity of peers,
robustness, traffic redistribution, etc.
This book brings together an introduction, three invited
articles, and revised versions of the papers presented at the
Second International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing,
AP2PC 2003, held in Melbourne, Australia, July 2003."
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