The limitations of client/server systems become evident in large scale distributed
environments. In such systems individual resources are concentrated on one or a small …

In this paper we comment on the relationship between multi-agent systems and peer-to-peer
systems. We point out that work in the frontiers of these two areas can be beneficial to both …

Pure Peer-to-peer architecture is becoming an important model for information sharing
among dynamic groups of users with its low cost of entry and its natural model for resource …

In this paper, we propose an approach to analyze the resilience of structured peer-to-peer
(P2P) systems under failures. The approach is Markov-chain based, and can be applied to …

Distributed knowledge management systems (DKMS) have been suggested to meet the
requirements of today's knowledge management. Peer-to-peer systems offer technical …

In order to synthesize stigmergy a model needs to be created that allows a collective of
agents to achieve global results through local interactions in some environment. This locality …

La société de l'information demande un accès efficace à un ensemble d'informations qui
sont souvent hétérogènes et distribuées. Dans le but d'un partage efficace de cette …

Peers in a peer-to-peer (P2P) system have widely differing performance characteristics and
are subject to time-varying workloads. However, once a peer has been deployed …

The computational optimization field defines the parameter tuning problem as the correct
selection of the parameter values in order to stabilize the behavior of the algorithms. This …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is currently attracting enormous attention. P2P systems have
emerged as a popular way to share huge volumes of data. In such systems each peer is a …