Annual Report 2007/2008 - Fachgruppe Informatik an der RWTH ...

P2P ‘08
From the 8th to the 11th of September 2008, the Distributed System Group, headed by Prof.
Dr. Klaus Wehrle, hosted the major P2P'08 conference. P2P'08 is the eighth conference in a
series of annual conferences concerned with overlay network technologies and massively
distributed systems and applications. The conference raised a large interest in the research
community, with over 150 attendees from all over the world. 161 papers were submitted to
the conference, from which less than 20% were selected for the conference program. The high
number of submissions and the selectivity proves the importance and the reputation of the
conference series.
Following its name, the main focus of the conference is peer-to-peer (P2P) systems. P2P
systems benefit from and share the resources owned by systems that are distributed around the
Internet. Examples of such technologies include peer-to-peer applications and grids, and in
general, any large-scale distributed system characterized by decentralization and sharing of
resources.
Recently, interesting applications of P2P technology have begun to emerge, together with new
platforms for application development. The conference program involved papers that
reflected such experiences with practical applications in this field and explored new
application areas. Furthermore, many key issues, like scalability, robustness, and security
were addressed in the presented publications.
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