Transparent Peer Review Comes to Cell Systems

Transparent peer review at Nature Communications.

S cientific peer review is regularly criticized as being ineffective and ‘broken’, although it continues to be widely used in academic publishing. While peer review certainly has its drawbacks, we regard this process as an essential valuable mechanism to improve the quality and accuracy of the scientific record, and it helps us editors to decide about the publication of a paper. Reviewer report...

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Transparent Query Caching in Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks

Peer-to-peer (p2p) systems such as Gnutella and KaZaa are routinely used by millions of people for sharing music and many other files over the Internet, and they account for a significant portion of the Internet traffic. The p2p traffic can be broken down into two categories: protocol messages for maintaining and searching the overlay p2p network, and data messages for downloading data files. T...

Building trust in peer-to-peer systems: a review

The decentralised, cooperative and self-organising nature of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems help to mitigate and even overcome many challenges which overwhelm the traditional client-server approaches. On the other hand, these very characteristics also introduce some novel issues in P2P environments. One of the critical issues is how to build the trust relationship within P2P systems. In this paper,...

Clique: A transparent, Peer-to-Peer collaborative file sharing system

Clique is a HP Labs Grenoble project. The goal is to develop a novel peer-to-peer, server-less distributed file system based on optimistic replication algorithms, which transparently integrates into users’ native file systems. Some properties of the Clique system are epidemic replication, a no lost updates consistency model and conflict management, as well as disconnected operation and replica ...