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Peer-to-peer systems, and in particular peer agent systems within organizations and in open electronic markets, have a promise for improved distribution of information and services and increasing overall performance and fault-tolerance. Nevertheless, these advantages come at a price. The complexity of communication, and in time of computation, increases. Further, failure of weak nodes running agents, which can be addressed by the peer-to-peer architecture, introduces another overhead. In addition to complexity issues, peer-to-peer networks, be their members agents or humans, lack in their ability to enhance trust and security, and are vulnerable to attacks. These shortcomings of peer-to-peer agent systems must be addressed to promote the adoption of such systems. This paper discusses advantages and weaknesses of peer-to-peer agent systems, and the effect these have on overall system robustness. Some solution directions are pointed at as well.
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Shehory, O. (2004). Robustness Challenges in Peer-to-Peer Agent Systems. In: Moro, G., Sartori, C., Singh, M.P. (eds) Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing. AP2PC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2872. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25840-7_2
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