This book presents the goals that drive the developers of the best known peer-to peer systems, the problems they've faced, and the technical solutions they've found.
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This book presents the goals that drive the developers of the best known peer-to peer systems, the problems they've faced, and the technical solutions they've found.
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New. Hardcover New Ships From Canada 432 Pages Book Description: The term "'"peer-to-peer"'" has come to be applied to networks that expect end users to contribute their own files, computing time, or other resources to some shared project Even more interesting than the systems' technical underpinnings are their socially disruptive potential: in various ways they return content, choice, and control to ordinary users While this book is mostly about the technical promise of peer-to-peer, we also talk about its exciting social promise Communities have been forming on the Internet for a long time, but they have been limited by the flat interactive qualities of email and Network newsgroups People can exchange recommendations and ideas over these media, but have great difficulty commenting on each other's postings, structuring information, performing searches, or creating summaries If tools provided ways to organize information intelligently, and if each person could serve up his or her own data and ret.
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New. Presenting the goals that drive the developers of the best-known peer-to-peer systems, this text explores the problems they've faced, and the technical solutions they've found. Topics include metadata, performance, trust, resource allocation, reputation, and security. Num Pages: 431 pages, index. BIC Classification: UDB; UT; UYF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 239 x 32. Weight in Grams: 792. 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
