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Cooperation strategies for agent-based P2P systems

Authors:

Loris Penserini,

John Mylopoulos,

Maurizio Panti,

Luca SpalazziAuthors Info & Claims

Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, Volume 1, Issue 1

Pages 3 - 21

Published: 01 January 2003 Publication History

Abstract

We are interested in peer-to-peer (P2P) computing, where a P2P application consists of a (wireless) network of nodes (peers), and assumes full peer autonomy, no global control, and intermittent connectivity. P2P computing has many advantages over classical client-server and web-based distributed architectures. However, the P2P computing model also has a number of limitations in the mechanisms it supports for data management and interchange. To overcome some of these, we propose an agent-based P2P model whose nodes are software agents (peer agents). This paper uses the i^* modeling framework to analyze and evaluate peer agent cooperation strategies using three possible evaluation criteria.

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Index Terms

Cooperation strategies for agent-based P2P systems
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Cooperation and coordination
      2. Intelligent agents
2. Networks
  1. Network types
    1. Mobile networks
    2. Wireless access networks

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Web Intelligence and Agent Systems Volume 1, Issue 1

January 2003

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