[DotGNU]CFP: Peer-to-Peer Computing and Interaction with Grids

[Seth Johnson]

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Subject: [decentralization] CFP: Special issue on Peer-to-Peer Computing and
Interaction with Grids
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 17:15:36 -0500
From: "Adriana Iamnitchi" <address@hidden>
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To: "Adriana Iamnitchi" <address@hidden>

C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S


PEER-TO-PEER COMPUTING AND INTERACTION WITH GRIDS
(Special issue in Future Generation Computer Systems)
http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~anda/FGCS/

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SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 1, 2003.
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TOPICS OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE

Peer-to-Peer environments are characterized by large scale (thousands to
millions of participants), intermittent user and resource participation,
lack of trust, and lack of centralized control. Designing mechanisms for
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) environments proved to be a stimulating research problem
that led to remarkable results in scalability, robustness, location,
distributed storage, and system measurements. A less addressed and more
challenging problem is computing in a P2P environment: computation is
notoriously hard to distribute, yet the potential of harnessing millions of
computers is tremendous.

Grid computing focuses on distributing computation on wide-area collections
of shared resources. P2P and Grid systems share the same focus on harnessing
resources across multiple administrative domains, but they differ in many
respects: Grids address support for a variety of (usually, scientific)
applications and hence focus on providing infrastructure to moderate-sized,
homogeneous, and partially trusted communities. In contrast, P2P systems
concentrate on providing support for intermittent participation in
vertically integrated applications for significantly larger communities of
untrusted individuals.

This special issue of Future Generation Computer Systems is dedicated to
recent advances in P2P computing and the relevant lessons from Grid
computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
    * Management of computational resources in large, unreliable networks
    * Incentives for computing in P2P environments
    * Applications for P2P computing
    * Infrastructure for supporting computation in P2P environments
    * Trust and security in P2P computing
    * Lessons from Grids (P2P) relevant to P2P (Grid) computing
    * Algorithms for computing in P2P environments
    * Grid Services and P2P
    * P2P protocols for the Grid


PAPER SUBMISSION

We invite you to submit a full paper of up to 15 pages describing new and
original results or a survey on a specific topic. The submitted paper must
be formatted according to the FGCS rules (Elsevier). For more information,
please refer to the FGCS home page (www.elsevier.nl/locate/future) and
select the Author Gateway link in the left bar menu.

With your submission, please include a cover page with the following:
    * Name, affiliation, address, and e-mail of each author
    * Contact author
    * A maximum of 5 keywords

A PostScript or PDF version of your paper must be submitted electronically
to one of the guest editors (see below). Hard copies should be sent only if
electronic submission is absolutely not possible.


IMPORTANT DATES

July 1, 2003: Full paper (in FGCS style) due
September 15, 2003: Notification of acceptance
November 1, 2003: Final version due
Expected date of publication: January 2004.


GUEST EDITORS

Adriana Iamnitchi
Department of Computer Science
The University of Chicago
1100 E. 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
USA
address@hidden

Domenico Talia
DEIS
Università della Calabria
Via P. Bucci, 41c
87036 Rende (CS)
Italy
address@hidden

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Adriana Iamnitchi
University of Chicago
http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~anda
(773) 834-4416


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