P2P Content Sharing

Information ubiquity has created a large crowd of users (e.g. scientists), who can use database technology to process and share their data more effectively. We consider the issue of building content sharing communities in peer-to-peer environments. The users should be able to manage and share their data with minimal effort with the system in charge of indexing it (to make it accessible), replicating it (for availability), and reorganizing its physical storage (for better query performance).