The seminar deals with a current topic in distributed information systems. Students are expected to attend the entire seminar, choose a topic for presentation (may be either a collection of research papers or describing a system and/or evaluating a concrete product). Students are evaluated in the knowledge gained, the presentation made and the report they will present at the end of the semester.

The seminar deals with a current topic in distributed information systems. Students are expected to attend the entire seminar, choose a topic for presentation (may be either a collection of research papers or describing a system and/or evaluating a concrete product). Students are evaluated in the knowledge gained, the presentation made and the report they will present at the end of the semester.

The seminar deals with a current topic in distributed information systems. Students are expected to attend the entire seminar, choose a topic for presentation (may be either a collection of research papers or describing a system and/or evaluating a concrete product). Students are evaluated in the knowledge gained, the presentation made and the report they will present at the end of the semester.

The Peer-to-Peer computing paradigm enables the sharing of resources and services distributed across a large number of networked computers. This course provides a comprehensive study of Peer-to-Peer Systems, focusing on algorithms devised for the self-organization of computers in architectures that enable their collaboration.