CALL FOR PAPERS
Future Generation Computer Systems
The International Journal of Grid Computing and eScience
Special Issue on “Resource Discovery Mechanisms for P2P Systems”
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/fgcs

Scope
In the last years Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing has emerged as a milestone in distributed computing. It enables large-scale aggregation of resources (e.g. files, applications, services, storage, processing cycles and services) geographically distributed and belonging to unrelated administrative domains. Despite the results obtained by many researchers, advancing in ICT poses many challenges in terms of protocols, infrastructures, secure and efficient access and allocation of resources, fault tolerance, scalability and performance. Particular interest has been expressed on resource discovery, in which important aspects are expressiveness and effectiveness of the resource selection criteria. Being able to select in efficient way a set of resources that meets specific criteria is a requirement of many systems and applications such as Cloud systems and online-gaming applications. This special issue will focus on new methods and algorithms to efficiently and effectively access data distributed over large-scale P2P overlay networks.
Papers in the following topics (non-exhaustively) are welcome.

P2P solutions for Clouds, Datacenters and Grids
Publishing, Searching and Query Processing in P2P networks
Routing and fault-tolerance in P2P systems
P2P Overlays
P2P economics
Epidemic protocols and algorithms for P2P Networks
P2P applications and systems in mobile environments
Performance, robustness, and scalability

Guest Editors:
Dr. Laura Ricci
Department of Computer Science
University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Email: ricci@di.unipi.it

Dr. Ranieri Baraglia
Italian National Research Council
Information Science and Technology Institute
Pisa, Italy
Email: ranieri.baraglia@isti.cnr.it

Important Dates:
Paper submission: January, 15, 2012
Acceptance notification: April, 15, 2012
Final papers: May, 30, 2012
Publication: Late 2012

Submission Guidelines:
All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through the Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select “P2P‐RDM” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. The EES website is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/

Submission Format:
The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original research which is not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505611/authorinstructions.