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P2P personal information-sharing services will see explosive growth, reaching 35% of all online users by 2006. Once personal P2P applications are common and the infrastructure supports them, computing will change. Developers of Web-based applications will realize that adding P2P functionality makes their apps come alive -user communication is the secret sauce for enhancing client- server applications.

Main companies has already started to release frameworks for the development of P2P applications [15,29] and by 2006, P2P services will come bundled in premium broadband fees and personal information-sharing applications from Adobe, Palm, and AOL. As P2P technology matures, it will infect traditional client-server applications like the Web. Consumers will engage in conversations while doing almost any interactive task. By 2006, it is likely that 10 percent of business interactions will occur via P2P-enabled platforms.

P2P is a methodology that will enable machine-to-machine and client-to- client interaction via the Web services model. The intersection of these two worlds with the agent paradigm will extend the challenges of global-class computing, such as multi-owned and multi-operated transactions, to Internet-connected client devices. Enterprises should be familiar with emerging P2P platforms and the concept of peer spaces as they develop their global-class computing strategies.

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  1. Department of Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago2402 University Hall, 601 South Morgan Street, M/C 294 Chicago, IL 60607-7124, USA

    Aris M. Ouksel

  2. Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna, Via Rasi e Spinelli, 176, I-47023, Cesena (FC), Italy

    Gianluca Moro

  3. Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna, IEIIT-BO-CNR, Viale Risorgimento, 2, I-40136, Bologna, Italy

    Claudio Sartori

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  1. Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna, Via Rasi e Spinelli, 176, 47023, Cesena (FC), Italy

    Gianluca Moro

  2. Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Technical University of Crete, University Campus - Kounoupidiana, 73100, Chania, Crete, Greece

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Moro, G., Ouksel, A.M., Sartori, C. (2003). Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing: A Promising Combination of Paradigms. In: Moro, G., Koubarakis, M. (eds) Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing. AP2PC 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2530. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45074-2_1

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