—It has been widely acknowledged that online file hosting systems within the “cloud” of the Internet have provided valuable services to end users who wish to share files of a...
Fangming Liu, Ye Sun, Bo Li, Baochun Li, Xinyan Zh...
—A number of analytical models exists that capture various properties of the BitTorrent protocol. However, until now virtually all of these models have been based on the assumpti...
Michel Meulpolder, Johan A. Pouwelse, Dick H. J. E...
The development of new services through the integration of existing ones has gained a considerable momentum as a means to create and streamline business-to-business collaborations...
Boualem Benatallah, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H. H. Ngu,...
Abstract. Recently, development of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications has been giving a paramount attention mostly due to their attractive features such as decentralization and self-o...
This paper examines the decentralized formation of groups within a peer-to-peer multi-agent system. More specifically, it frames group formation as a clustering problem, and exami...
Elth Ogston, Benno J. Overeinder, Maarten van Stee...