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                  SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 31, 2006

               Topic 15:   Peer-to-Peer and Web Computing
 
                            EURO-PAR 2006 
                     August 29 - September 1, 2006 
           Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

                 Web site: http://www.europar2006.de/
                   Email: europar@zih.tu-dresden.de
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                      TOPIC 15 - DESCRIPTION

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have become a major area of research in the past few 
years. Their potential was first revealed by the hugely popular P2P file sharing
applications, which allow any computer (as a peer), anywhere in a large scale 
distributed computing environment, to share information and resources with 
others. The computing environments promoted by P2P systems and technology are 
decentralized in nature, exploring a symmetric pairwise interaction model. They 
are self-organized and self-coordinated, dynamically adapted to peer arrivals 
and departures, and highly resilient to failures. As P2P research becomes more 
mature, new challenges emerge to support complex and heterogeneous distributed 
environments for sharing and managing data, resources, and knowledge, with 
highly volatile and dynamic usage patterns.
This topic provides a forum for researchers to present new contributions on P2P 
technologies, applications, and systems, identifying key research issues and 
challenges.

Focus
- P2P applications and services including large-scale data and knowledge management
- Convergence between P2P and Grid computing environments/applications
- P2P systems and infrastructures
- P2P data management environments
- P2P algorithms and theory
- Security, privacy and robustness in P2P systems
- Distributed trust management and reputation in P2P systems
- Performance issues of P2P systems
- Workload characterization for P2P systems and usage patterns
- Experience with deployed P2P systems
- Middleware, programming models, environments and toolkits for P2P
- Resource and service discovery in P2P systems
- Convergence between P2P, Web computing or Web services platforms
- Internet Web-enabled P2P applications and services


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                             KEY DATES

                  December 31, 2005: Workshop proposals due
                  January  31, 2006: Full papers due
                  May       3, 2006: Notification of acceptance
                  May      30, 2006: Camera-ready papers 
                                     and author registration due

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                         SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit full papers (10 pages, Springer LNCS
style) to this topic, by using the online submission site:

         http://www.europar2006.de/index.php?page=1

Online submission will be open before the end of December 2005.
(When submitting, please indicate this topic.)

All accepted full papers will be published in the conference
proceedings in the Springer Verlag LNCS series.

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                     TOPIC 15 - PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Global Chair
Prof. Dr. Henrique J. Domingos
New University of Lisbon
Department of Informatics
Caparica, Lisbon-Portugal
hj@di.fct.unl.pt

Local Chair
Dr. Anne-Marie Kermarrec
Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu
INRIA/IRISA
Rennes, France
akermarr@irisa.fr

Vice Chair
Prof. Dr. Pascal Felber
University of Neuchâtel
Department of Computer Science
Switzerland
pascal.felber@unine.ch

Vice Chair
Mark Jelasity, Ph.D.
University Bologna
Department of Computer Science
Bologna, Italy
jelasity@cs.unibo.it

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                    MISSION STATEMENT - EURO-PAR

Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to
the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and
distributed computing. Each year, the conference normally attracts
more than 300 participants coming from universities, research centres
and industry. Euro-Par 2006 will represent 18 topics
(http://www.europar2006.de/index.php?page=3) in the categories
of hardware, software, algorithms and applications, and will also
include tutorials, invited talks, and co-located workshops.
Besides, the planed Grid Village provides an opportunity to showcase
the latest developments in Grid technology with demonstration and hands 
on experiences.
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