Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation

Abstract

This book fills this void by including a collection of representative articles, which gives an up-to-date and comprehensive snapshot of the Peer-to-Peer field. One of the main challenges that faces any book covering such a vast and relatively new territory is how to structure the material. This book resolves this conundrum by dividing the material into roughly three parts. The first part of the book covers the basics of Peer-to-Peer designs, un- structured and structured systems, and presents a variety of applications in- cluding e-mail, multicast, Grid computing, andWeb services. The book then goes beyond describing traditional systems, by discussing general aspects of the Peer-to-Peer systems, namely the self-organization nature of the Peer- to-Peer systems, and the all-important topic of evaluating these systems. In addition, the book illustrates the broad applicability of Peer-to-Peer by dis- cussing the impact of the Peer-to-Peer technologies in two computer-science areas, namely searching and information retrieval, and mobile computing. No Peer-to-Peer book would be complete without discussing the business model, accounting, and security. This book touches on these topics in the last part.