ServP2P 2009 - ServP2P 2009 - Workshop on Service-Oriented P2P Networks and Grid Systems -CCGRID2009 conference

1st International Workshop on Service-Oriented P2P Networks
ServP2P 2009
Part of IEEE CCGrid 2009
9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
18th ¨C 21st May 2009, Shanghai, China
CALL FOR PAPERS
Peer-to-Peer networks first emerged in the late 90¡¯s as specialised systems & protocols to support distributed file sharing. Since then, the scientific community has gradually changed the way P2P networks are perceived; from file sharing applications to a general-purpose methodology that can be applied to design large scale resource discovery and sharing applications. The term resource is quite generic and encapsulates not just files but applications, services and computational resources such as storage and processing cycles.
So far the main emphasis of P2P research was on the optimisation of the design and performance of such networks in terms of file sharing. However, this work is not directly applicable to consumable resources such as services, storage and processing cycles. These resources have two main characteristics: Firstly they are non-replicable and secondly (because they are consumable) they possess a highly volatile and unpredictable availability. The combined effect of the above two attributes is that distributed hash tables and numerous successful informed search techniques cannot be directly applied to this type of resources. At the same time there is a growing demand for P2P-oriented systems that can successfully manage, retrieve and provide access to applications and computational resources in general rather than just files. Furthermore, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and content providers are increasingly looking towards exploiting the P2P scalability and performance gains over