P2P Techniques for Decentralized Applications

Esther Pacitti is a professor of computer science at University of Montpellier 2 pursuing research in large-scale distributed data management and head of a research team at Lirmm (University of Montpellier 2).She has served or is serving as program committee member of major international conferences and has edited an co-authored several books. She has also published a significant amount of technical papers and journal papers in well-known international conferences and journals. Reza Akbarinia is a research scientist at INRIA, France. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Nantes in 2007. His research focuses on data management in large-scale distributed systems (P2P, grid, cloud), in particular, query processing, uncertain data management, replication, etc. He has authored and co-authored several technical papers in main database conferences and journals, and has served as PC member in several important international conferences. Manal El-Dick receivedM.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Nantes, France in 2006 and 2010, respectively. She is currently Associate Professor at the Lebanese University. Her research interests focus on practical and scalable protocols to cope with the recent and tremendous evolution of distributed systems. She is the author and co-author of several publications in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences.

• P2P Overlays, Query Routing, and Gossiping.- Content Distribution in P2P Systems.- Recommendation Systems.- Top-k Query Processing in P2P Systems.