Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing.

The volumes concentrates on exploring the synergies between current database research and P2P computing. It is our belief that database research has much to contribute to the P2P grand challenge through its wealth of techniques for sophisticated semantics-based data models, new indexing algorithms and efficient data placement, query processing techniques and transaction processing. Database technologies in the new information age form the crucial components of the first generation of complex adaptive P2P information systems, which are characterized by their ability to continuously self-organize, adapt to new circumstances, promote emergence as an inherent property, optimize locally but not necessarily globally, deal with approximation and incompleteness. The volume also concentrates on the impact of complex adaptive information systems on current database technologies and their relation to emerging industrial technologies.