Many of the most successful applications on the Internet today are architecturally centralized. The success of these centralized architectures is surprising to some, given the fundamentally decentralized way the Internet itself and the World Wide Web work. Alternatively, many companies and research projects have advocated decentralized applications.
Many applications employ a mixed strategy, including financial trading and email.
Consider how Travelocity, for example, is implemented as a decentralized Web application wrapping the centralized Sabre reservations service. Participants often vote their resources by deciding to share information or compute cycles. Attendance Attendance at the workshop is by invitation only, based on submission of an informal statement of your interests. As well, we encourage submission of 1-5 page position papers which will be distributed in advance to the workshop attendees. Submitters of position papers will be given priority for attendance invitation.