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On Exploiting Agent Technology in the Design of Peer-to-Peer Applications

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Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC 2004)

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Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures exhibit attractive properties for a wide range of real world systems. As a result they are increasingly being applied in the design of applications ranging from high-capacity file sharing and global scale distributed computing to business team-ware. The objective of this paper is to outline a number of areas in which Agent techniques for the management of social problems such as decision making or fair trading amongst autonomous agents could be used to help structure P2P actions. In particular we focus on approaches from mechanism design, argumentation theory and norms / rules and electronic institutions.

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  1. Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna, Via Venezia, 52, 47023, Cesena (FC), Italy

    Gianluca Moro

  2. Dept. of Science Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, via Vignolese, 905, 41100, Modena, Italy

    Sonia Bergamaschi

  3. School of Computer and Communication Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Karl Aberer

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Willmott, S., Pujol, J.M., Cortés, U. (2005). On Exploiting Agent Technology in the Design of Peer-to-Peer Applications. In: Moro, G., Bergamaschi, S., Aberer, K. (eds) Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing. AP2PC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3601. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11574781_9

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