The utility of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems extends far beyond traditional file sharing. This paper provides an overview of how P2P systems are capable of providing robust command and control for Distributed Multi-Agent Systems (DMASs). Specifically, this article presents the evolution of P2P architectures to date by discussing supporting technologies and applicability of each generation of P2P s...

This paper provides an overview of the concept of people-to-people (P2P) lending, a relatively new e-commerce phenomenon that has the potential to radically change the structure of the loan segment of the financial industry. P2P lending creates a marketplace of individuals and a social fabric through which these individuals interact. It provides efficient information transfer, thus perhaps crea...

The deterministic network coding has several advantages over random network coding methods, like lower communication overhead and faster linear independence check. We would like to create a P2P content sharing simulation environment, where nodes communicate with deterministic network coding to observe the different properties of deterministic source coding. Our simulator is based on the Peersim...

Content sharing is a popular usage of peerto-peer systems for its inherent scalability and low cost of maintenance. In this paper, we leverage this nature of peer-to-peer systems to tackle a new problem: automatic misconfiguration troubleshooting. In this setting, machine configurations from the peers are “shared” to diagnose the misconfigurations on a sick machine. A key challenge for such a t...

There is an increasing interest in incorporating presence within Peer-to-Peer systems (P2P). However the diverse nature of P2P can have an effect on how easily presence functionality can be integrated within a design. This paper examines the key design issues that should be considered if presence is to be supported within a P2P system. In particular the paper discusses the affect the choice of ...

Music sales are loosing their role as a means for music dissemination but are still used by the music industry for ranking artist success, e.g., in the Billboard Magazine chart. Thus, it was suggested recently to use social networks as an alternative ranking system; a suggestion which is problematic due to the ease of manipulating the list and the difficulty of implementation. In this work we s...

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems have been very successful for large-scale data sharing. However, sharing sensitive data, like in online social networks, without appropriate access control, can have undesirable impact on data privacy. Data can be accessed by everyone (by potentially untrusted peers) and used for everything (e.g., for marketing or activities against the owner’s preferences or ethics)....

Mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) communications refers to communications services enabled by P2P technologies. Two alternatives for deploying mobile P2P communications services were considered: the open standard draft for the P2PSIP and some mobile variants of the proprietary Skype service. The main benefit of both is the elimination of most centralized components in the communications network resulti...

In an ad hoc, arbitrarily formed peer to peer (P2P) network system, each user can select one of the services offered by multiple neighbor stations to have an access to the network. Every user has a preference function to determine a service to use, which is described as a total willingness to pay based on the bandwidth and the duration of using a service. In our study, we developed a market-bas...

In peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, soft information, such as borrowers’ facial features, textual descriptions of loan applications and so on, are regarded as potential signals to screen borrowers. In this study, we examine the signaling effect of a new category of soft informationsocial media information. Leveraging a unique dataset that combines loan data from a large P2P lending company with soci...