Emerging technologies represent a major innovation that offers significant advances to both private and public organizations. An example of these technologies is the "blockchain", which combines cryptographic mechanisms and peer-to-peer architecture. The importance of these emerging technologies requires the use of evaluation methods in order to understand their contribution and the associated ...

Important research efforts are conducted in the area of search, lookup, and routing, and are even increasing in light of promises and challenges of peer-to-peer (P2P) systems or the semantic web. To organize these areas of concern, this paper proposes an exhaustive two-dimensional design space that structures and classifies current and facilitates future research. In the functional dimension, i...

Peer-to-peer platforms in the realm of the sharing economy, such as Airbnb or BlaBlaCar, have heavily rattled the electronic commerce landscape and are expected to further impact consumer behavior in the future. While trust between the parties involved is of utmost importance in such platform economies, experimental research on this aspect is scarce. In this conceptual paper, we first present a...

Collaborative networked environments emerged with the spread of the internet, contributing to overcome past communication barriers, and identifying interoperability as an essential property. When achieved seamlessly, efficiency is increased in the entire product life cycle. Nowadays, most organizations try to attain interoperability by establishing peer-to-peer mappings with the different partn...

This paper describes a peer-to-peer system design and implementation assignment for a distributed systems course at an advanced undergraduate level, or a first-year graduate level. The assignment consists of four stages, and provides students a good, practical understanding of some of the key distributed computing concepts. These include issues of decentralization, managing distributed informat...