CFP: Special Issue on Dependable Peer-to-Peer Systems, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Springer.
http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CFP_12083_ 20080415.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-539098-p173740112 Guest Editors Prof Jie Xu, Dr Lu Liu School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK Paper submission deadline: October 3rd 2008 Background As an emerging technology, peer-to-peer (P2P) systems attract attention worldwide, ranging from casual Internet users to venture capitalists. At the same time, innovations of P2P systems also offer many interesting avenues of research for scientific communities. As a major design pattern for future systems opposite to the traditional client-server paradigm, research on P2P networks is extremely important and could significantly change the way of day-to-day use of computer systems. However, P2P is sometimes regarded as a destructive technology rather than a constructive technology by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). "How to harness the power of P2P?" and "how to design dependable P2P systems for sustainable provision of services and integration of services?" are still fundamental problems. There are strong needs for improving the dependability of P2P systems to make them more secure and robust for service sharing and delivery. However, developing dependable systems is difficult because various types of properties can influence the dependability of system. Achieving dependability in a P2P environment is even more complicated due to the lack of centralized servers to monitor and control the system. Moreover, the dynamic nature of P2P systems poses significant challenges to dependability. Existent P2P systems exhibit high network churns which are usually caused firstly by peer nodes frequently going online and offline, and secondly by content sharing and removing. Network churns significantly influence the performance of P2P systems. In order to provide sustainable services in decentralized P2P systems, new mechanisms are required to handle network churns in a distributed environment. The purpose of this special issue is to collate efforts and main achievements that contribute to scalability, availability, reliability, safety and maintainability of P2P systems. This special issue will focus on fundamental issues in modelling, simulation and design of dependable P2P systems. The relevant topics include, but are not limited to: * Dependable distributed systems * Security in P2P systems * Self-organizing and self-adaptive P2P systems * Self-management of P2P systems * Social P2P networks * Collaborative peer groups and communities * Resource discovery and management in P2P systems * Information retrieval in P2P systems * Semantic overlay networks * Grid Service provision in P2P systems * Evolutionary service oriented architecture * Content sharing and distribution in P2P systems * File swarming * P2P streaming * P2P workflow management Paper Submission Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. Springer offers authors, editors and reviewers of Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications a web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system. Our online system offers authors the ability to track the review process of their manuscript. Manuscripts should be submitted to: http://PPNA.edmgr.com. This online system offers easy and straightforward log-in and submission procedures, and supports a wide range of submission file formats. Important Dates * Paper submission deadline: October 3rd 2008 * Notification to authors: January 30th 2009 * Camera ready papers: February 15th 2009 * Date of publication: Late 2009
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