News

The Ninth International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing will be held September 8-11 in Seattle, Washington. Submissions of papers, and topics for panels, talks, and tutorials, are invited. The CFP may be found here. Abstracts are due April 13, 2009, and full papers are due April 20.

Scope

The International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing is an annual conference concerned with the convergence of overlay network technologies that empower end-user computers. These technologies include Peer-to-Peer, Grids, Clusters, and the Web Services that ride over them. These overlay networks are converging toward a common set of protocols due to their extensive implementations on the Internet and other shared environments.

These new protocols render the overlay networks functionally independent of the networks that they ride on. Cooperation between users makes possible applications that formerly required a managed infrastructure created and maintained by a commercial provider. The resulting flexibility and dynamic behavior has many benefits, but also poses substantial challenges.

Among these challenges are stability and security. Not only must we be concerned with the security within the overlay network, we must be concerned with the threats they may spawn toward the networks they ride on.

The International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing promotes a collaboration in research between academic institutions, government organizations, and business enterprises that are concerned with the implementation, deployment, and applications of P2P, Grids, and Clusters.

Steering Committee

Wolfgang Kellerer, DOCOMO Europe, Germany
Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy
Manfred Hauswirth, DERI, Ireland
Douglas S. Reeves, N.C. State University, USA
Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Adam Wierzbicki, Polish Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland