Download or read book Cooperative Internet Computing - Proceedings Of The 4th International Conference (Cic 2006) written by Alvin T S Chan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008-03-05 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution and popularity of the Internet and computing GRID has brought the cooperative computing research discipline to the Internet, for which we coined the term Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC). This conference brings together new and different approaches to CIC.The book contains the revised version of the 12 best papers presented at the conference, listed under four categories: theories and protocols of CIC, technologies and architecture of CIC, collaborative information retrieval, and CIC applications.This collection serves as a useful resource for those interested in the research and study of CIC.