Peer Communities

1. No centralized control for peer collaborations
2. Communities are formed by declarations of interests by users of peer computers. Join, leave and participate in peer groups
3. Information made available by each participant can be searched by all participants.
4. Innovative features:
   1. Self forming interest based communities
   2. Join, leave and participate in peer groups
   3. Push-Pull Gossiping
   4. Peer trust management using link weights
   5. Algorithms for resource discovery
5. Has relationships to "Mobile Computing", "Ubiquitous Computing'