One of the important aspects of decision making and management in distributed systems is
collecting accurate information about the available resources of the peers. The previously …

Sharing musical files via the Internet was the essential motivation of early P2P systems.
Despite of the great success of the P2P file sharing systems, these systems support only" …

Abstract Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems have been very successful for large-scale data sharing.
However, sharing sensitive data, like in online social networks, without appropriate access …

This paper discusses the possibility to use Peer-to-Peer (P2P) scenario for information-
retrieval (IR) systems for higher performance and better reliability than classical client-server …

Online peer-to-peer (P2P) communities such as professional ones (eg, medical or research
communities) are becoming popular due to increasing needs on data sharing. P2P …

The goal of this study is to validate a new simulation technique for performance évaluation of
discrete time queuing networks. This technique uses a versatile architecture, which has …

We propose to demonstrate LiquidXML, a platform for managing large corpora of XML
documents in large-scale P2P networks. All LiquidXML peers may publish XML documents …

Malgré leur succès dans le domaine du partage de fichiers, les systèmes P2P sont capables
d'évaluer uniquement des requêtes simples basées sur la recherche d'un fichier en utilisant …

Comment mesurer l'importance et l'impact des communications scientifiques? Que peut-on
déduire de ces mesures? Sont-elles falsifiables et falsifiées? Des générateurs aléatoires …

La mise en réseau des dispositifs de gestion de l'information, qu'ils soient de petite taille
(capteur-dispositif) ou de grande taille (cluster-super calcu-lateur) accompagnent et …