CFP: Special issue on Peer-to-Peer Computing and Interaction with Grids

[Domenico Talia <talia@deis.unical.it>]

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 
anda@cs.uchicago.edu
Domenico Talia 
DEIS 
Università della Calabria 
Via P. Bucci, 41c 
87036 Rende (CS) 
Italy 
talia@deis.unical.it
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