Locating Data in (Small-World?) Peer-to-Peer Scientific Collaborations
<|reference_start|>Locating Data in (Small-World?) Peer-to-Peer Scientific Collaborations: Data-sharing scientific collaborations have particular characteristics, potentially different from the current peer-to-peer environments. In this paper we advocate the benefits of exploiting emergent patterns in self-configuring networks specialized for scientific data-sharing collaborations. We speculate that a peer-to-peer scientific collaboration network will exhibit small-world topology, as do a large number of social networks for which the same pattern has been documented. We propose a solution for locating data in decentralized, scientific, data-sharing environments that exploits the small-worlds topology. The research challenge we raise is: what protocols should be used to allow a self-configuring peer-to-peer network to form small worlds similar to the way in which the humans that use the network do in their social interactions?<|reference_end|>
@article{iamnitchi2002locating,
    title={Locating Data in (Small-World?) Peer-to-Peer Scientific Collaborations},
    author={Adriana Iamnitchi, Matei Ripeanu, Ian Foster},
    journal={1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems IPTPS 2002},
    year={2002},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0209031},
    primaryClass={cs.DC cond-mat}
}