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

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 emerging as a new distributed computing paradigm because of their potential to harness the computing power of the hosts composing the network, and because they make their underutilized resources av...