Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing

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 23 submissions; they are fully revised to incorporate reviewers' comments and discussions at the workshop. The volume is organized in topical sections on P2P Infrastructure, agents in P2P, P2P search, and applications.

Invited Paper.- Information Flow Analysis in Autonomous Agent and Peer-to-Peer Systems for Self-organizing Electronic Health Records.- P2P Infrastructure.- Hybrid DHT Design for Mobile Environments.- DANTE: A Self-adapting Peer-to-Peer System.- The Exclusion of Malicious Routing Peers in Structured P2P Systems.- Agents in P2P.- Cooperative CBR System for Peer Agent Committee Formation.- Mobile Agent-Based Approach for Resource Discovery in Peer-to-Peer Networks.- P2P Search.- Chora: Expert-Based P2P Web Search.- K-link: A Peer-to-Peer Solution for Organizational Knowledge Management.- An Analysis of Interest-Community Facilitated Peer-to-Peer Search.- Applications.- Mitigating the Impact of Liars by Reflecting Peer's Credibility on P2P File Reputation Systems.- A Comparative Study of Reasoning Techniques for Service Selection.- PROSA: P2P Resource Organisation by Social Acquaintances.- Reliable P2P File Sharing Service.- Studying Viable Free Markets in Peer-to-Peer File Exchange Applications without Altruistic Agents.- Distributed Multi-layered Network Management for NEC Using Multi-Agent Systems.- Facilitating Collaboration in a Distributed Software Development Environment Using P2P Architecture.- A Peer to Peer Grid Computing System Based on Mobile Agents.