CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC 2007) http://p2p.ingce.unibo.it/ held in AAMAS 2007 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. from 14 May - 18 May 2007.
CALL FOR PAPERS Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing has attracted enormous media attention, initially spurred by the popularity of file sharing systems such as Napster, Gnutella, and Morpheus. More recently systems like BitTorrent and eDonkey have continued to sustain that attention. New techniques such as distributed hash-tables (DHTs), semantic routing, and Plaxton Meshes are being combined with traditional concepts such as Hypercubes, Trust Metrics and caching techniques to pool together the untapped computing power at the "edges" of the internet. These new techniques and possibilities have generated a lot of interest in many industrial organizations, and has resulted in the creation of a P2P working group on standardization in this area. (http://www.irtf.org/charters/p2prg.html). In P2P computing peers and services forego central coordination and dynamically organise themselves to support knowledge sharing and collaboration, in both cooperative and non-cooperative environments. The success of P2P systems strongly depends on a number of factors. First, the ability to ensure equitable distribution of content and services. Economic and business models which rely on incentive mechanisms to supply contributions to the system are being developed, along with methods for controlling the "free riding" issue. Second, the ability to enforce provision of trusted services. Reputation based P2P trust management models are becoming a focus of the research community as a viable solution. The trust models must balance both constraints imposed by the environment (e.g. scalability) and the unique properties of trust as a social and psychological phenomenon. Recently, we are also witnessing a move of the P2P paradigm to embrace mobile computing in an attempt to achieve even higher ubiquitousness. The possibility of services related to physical location and the relation with agents in physical proximity could introduce new opportunities and also new technical challenges. Although researchers working on distributed computing, MultiAgent Systems, databases and networks have been using similar concepts for a long time, it is only fairly recently that papers motivated by the current P2P paradigm have started appearing in high quality conferences and workshops. Research in agent systems in particular appears to be most relevant because, since their inception, MultiAgent Systems have always been thought of as collections of peers. The MultiAgent paradigm can thus be superimposed on the P2P architecture, where agents embody the description of the task environments, the decision-support capabilities, the collective behavior, and the interaction protocols of each peer. The emphasis in this context on decentralization, user autonomy, dynamic growth and other advantages of P2P, also leads to significant potential problems. Most prominent among these problems are coordination: the ability of an agent to make decisions on its own actions in the context of activities of other agents, and scalability: the value of the P2P systems lies in how well they scale along several dimensions, including complexity, heterogeneity of peers, robustness, traffic redistribution, and so forth. It is important to scale up coordination strategies along multiple dimensions to enhance their tractability and viability, and thereby to widen potential application domains. These two problems are common to many large-scale applications. Without coordination, agents may be wasting their efforts, squander resources and fail to achieve their objectives in situations requiring collective effort. This workshop will bring together researchers working on agent systems and P2P computing with the intention of strengthening this connection. Researchers from other related areas such as distributed systems, networks and database systems will also be welcome (and, in our opinion, have a lot to contribute). We seek high-quality and original contributions on the general theme of "Agents and P2P Computing". The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics of special interest: - Intelligent agent techniques for P2P computing - P2P computing techniques for MultiAgent Systems - The Semantic Web, Semantic Coordination Mechanisms and P2P systems - Scalability, coordination, robustness and adaptability in P2P systems - Self-organization and emergent behavior in P2P networks - E-commerce and P2P computing - Participation and Contract Incentive Mechanisms in P2P Systems - Computational Models of Trust and Reputation - Community of interest building and regulation, and behavioral norms - Intellectual property rights in P2P systems - P2P architectures - Scalable Data Structures for P2P systems - Services in P2P systems (service definition languages, service discovery, filtering and composition etc.) - Knowledge Discovery and P2P Data Mining Agents - P2P oriented information systems - Information ecosystems and P2P systems - Security issues in P2P networks - Mobile P2P - Pervasive computing based on P2P architectures (ad-hoc networks,wireless communication devices and mobile systems) - Grid computing solutions based on agents and P2P paradigms - Legal issues in P2P networks PANEL The theme of the panel will be "Wireless P2P Networks and Agents in the Mobile Information Society". Recently, the P2P paradigm is embracing mobile computing and ad-hoc networks in an attempt to achieve even higher ubiquitousness. The possibility of data and services related to physical location and the relation with Agents and sensors in physical proximity could introduce new opportunities and also new technical challenges. Such dynamic environments, which are inherently characterized by high mobility and heterogeneity of resources like devices, participants, services, information and data representation, pose several issues on how to search and localize resources, how to efficiently route traffic, up to higher level problems related to semantic interoperability and information relevance. The panel will involve short presentations by the panelists followed by a discussion session involving the audience. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: 5th January 2007 Paper submission: 5th February 2007 Acceptance notification: 5th March 2007 Camera-ready submission: 19th March 2007 Workshop: 14-15th May 2007 Camera ready for post-proceedings: 20th July 2007 REGISTRATION Accomodation and workshop registration will be handled by the AAMAS 2007 organization along with the main conference registration. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Previously unpublished papers should be formatted according to the LNCS/LNAI author instructions for proceedings and they should not be longer than 12 pages (about 5000 words including figures, tables, references, etc.). Please submit your papers through the Microsoft conference management system: https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/AP2PC07/CallForPapers.aspx Particular preference will be given to those papers that build upon the contributions of papers presented at previous AP2PC workshops. In addition, please carefully consider the issues that our reviewers will be considering. Some of the issues our reviewers will be considering can be seen in this form: http://www.neurogrid.net/ap2pc2007/review-form.html At the very least we would encourage all authors to read the abstracts of the papers submitted to previous workshops - available from the links below: http://p2p.ingce.unibo.it/2002/ http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40109-22-2991818-0,00.html http://p2p.ingce.unibo.it/2003/ http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40109-22-37060961-0,00.html http://p2p.ingce.unibo.it/2004/ http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-147-22-90285401-0,00.html http://p2p.ingce.unibo.it/2005/ Particular preference will be given to both novel approaches and those papers that build upon the contributions of papers presented at previous AP2PC workshops. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be distributed to the workshop participants as workshop notes. As in previous years post-proceedings of the revised papers (namely accepted papers presented at the workshop) will be submitted for publication to Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Program Co-chairs Sonia Bergamaschi, Dept. of Science Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, via Vignolese, 905 - 41100 Modena Italy Tel. +39 059 2056132 - Fax +39 059 2056126 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zoran Despotovic Future Networking Lab, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe, Landsberger Str. 312 80687 Munich, Germany E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sam Joseph Dept. of Information and Computer Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA 1680 East-West Road, POST 309, Honolulu, HI 96822 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gianluca Moro Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems (DEIS) University of Bologna Via Venezia, 52 I-47023 Cesena (FC), Italy Tel. +39 0547 339237, Fax +39 0547 339208 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PROGRAM COMMITTEE Karl Aberer, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Alessandro Agostini, ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy Makoto Amamiya, Kyushu University, Japan Djamal Benslimane, Universite Claude Bernard, France Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, Italy M. Brian Blake, Georgetown University, USA Costas Courcoubetis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Vasilios Darlagiannis, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Zoran Despotovic, DoCoMo Communications Laboratory, Germany Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Chihab Hanachi, University of Toulouse, France Sam Joseph, University of Hawaii, USA Frank Kamperman, Philips Research, The Netherlands Tan Kian Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore Birgitta Ko"nig-Ries, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Alberto Montresor, University of Bologna, Italy Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy Jean-Henry Morin, Korea University, South Korea Elth Ogston, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy Thanasis Papaioannou, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Institute for AI, Austria, Dimitris Plexousakis, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece Martin Purvis, University of Otago, New Zealand Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK Douglas S. Reeves, North Carolina State University, USA Thomas Risse, Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany Claudio Sartori, University of Bologna, Italy Heng Tao Shen, University of Queensland, Australia Francisco Valverde-Albacete, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Maurizio Vincini, University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, Italy Fang Wang, British Telecom Group, UK Steven Willmott, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Bin Yu, North Carolina State University, USA _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
