: Existing Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) exhibit the nature of closed delivery networks which do not cooperate with other CDNs and in practice, islands of CDNs are formed. The l...
When the utility of a hypertext system depends on the number of users and amount of data in the system, the system exhibits network effects. This paper examines how the core diffe...
BitTorrent is today's most influential peer-to-peer system. Currently BitTorrent has two very different operating models: (1) public trackers, and (2) private trackers (also k...
Abstract--In the context of a project aimed at the development of a cooperative and distributed Authoring System to facilitate the production, sharing, and integration of new and e...
Giuseppe Rizzo, Biagio Meirone, Pierluigi Di Nunzi...
We are developing an approach for P2P information systems, where the peers are modeled as autonomous agents. Agents provide services or give referrals to one another to help find...