This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 3rd and the 4th International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing, DBISP2P 2005 and DBISP2P 2006, held in Trondheim, Norway, in August 2005 and in Seoul, Korea, in September 2006, as satellite events of VLDB, the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases.
The 39 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited contribution were ...

Grids are a crucial enabling technology for scientific and industrial development. Peer-to Peer Computing, Grid, distributed storage technologies, emerging web service technologies, and other types of networked distributed computing, have provided new paradigms exploiting distributed resources. Grids are revolutionizing computing as profoundly as e-mail and the web.
Towards Next Generation Grids is the fifth volume of the CoreGRID series. ...

This volume comprises the edited proceedings of the 2006 CoreGRID Integration Workshop (CGIW'2006), held October 2006 in Krakow, Poland. A "Network of Excellence" funded by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Program, CoreGRID, aims to strengthen and advance scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid and Peer-to-Peer technologies by bringing together a critical mass of well-established researchers from 41 European research ...

Seminararbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Informationswiss., Informationsmanagement, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1,3, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Wirtschaftsinformatik/Informationsmanagement, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Peer-to-Peer (P2P) hat sich zu einem der meistdiskutierten Begriffe der Informationstechnologie herausgebildet." (Schoder/Fischbach 2003, S.313) ...

Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming describes novel solutions to enhance video quality, increase robustness to errors, and reduce end-to-end latency in video streaming systems. This book will be of use to both academics and professionals as it presents thorough coverage and solutions for current issues with Video Streaming and Peer-to-Peer architectures.
Key Features: Provides overview of today's state-of-the art video streaming technology; Presents ...

This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of emerging distributed-systems technologies and has been significantly enhanced and extended into the many new state-of-the-art infrastructures and technologies that have appeared since the successful 1st edition. The focus is also broadened, retaining the technical aspects, but including historical contexts for each of the technologies.
The 2nd edition fills in the gaps and includes an ...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications, ESOA 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan in May 2006 as an associated event of AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
The 7 full papers presented together with 6 invited papers were carefully selected for inclusion in the book. The authors' revisions ...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second IFIP WG 11.2 International Workshop on Information Security Theory and Practices: Smart Devices, Convergence and Next Generation Networks, WISTP 2008, held in Seville, Spain, in May 2008.
The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book; they examine the rapid development of information technologies and ...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing, AP2PC 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan, in May 2006, in the context of the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS 2006.
The 10 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from ...

The book offers two themes: one is about Communities of Practice (CoPs) and learning, the other is about social informatics approaches. First, in order to facilitate designing effective learning environments both online and offline, this book calls attention to the importance of CoPs to facilitate informal learning as part of professional development. Communities of Practice are informal networks that support a group of practitioners to develop ...