On behalf of the 9th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS ''10) program committee, we are inviting you to submit engaging position papers on the current and future trends in peer-to-peer systems. Co-located with NSDI ''10 in San Jose, CA, this one-day workshop provides a venue in which to present and discuss peer-to-peer technologies, applications, and systems and to identify key research issues and challenges that lie ahead. This year, the workshop''s charter will be expanded to include topics relating to self-organizing and self-managing distributed systems. This is in response to recent trends where self-organizing techniques proposed in early peer-to-peer systems have found their way into more managed settings such as datacenters, enterprises, and ISPs to help deal with growing scale, complexity, and heterogeneity. In the context of this year''s workshop, peer-to-peer systems are defined to be large-scale distributed systems that are mostly decentralized, are self-organizing, and might or might not include resources from multiple administrative domains. Papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of spawning insightful discussion, and technical merit. The program will include presentations of position papers along with plenty of time for lively discussion among the participants, as well as a demo session for working systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Network and system support for peer-to-peer systems * Self-organizing and self-managing distributed systems * Adaptive algorithms and architectures for large-scale distributed systems * New applications and protocols for peer-to-peer systems * Availability, robustness, performance, and scaling * Security, privacy, anonymity, anti-censorship, and incentives * Lessons drawn from experience with deployed peer-to-peer systems * Measurement, modeling, and workload characterization Complete paper submissions are due Friday, December 18, 2009, 11:59 p.m. EST. For more details on the submission process, please see the complete Call for Papers at: http://www.usenix.org/iptps10/cfpa/ We look forward to receiving your submissions! Michael J. Freedman, Princeton University Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington IPTPS ''10 Program Co-Chairs iptps10chairs@usenix.org --------------------------------- Call for Papers 9th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS ''10) April 27, 2010 San Jose, CA http://www.usenix.org/iptps10/cfpa/ Submissions Deadline: December 18, 2009, 11:59 p.m. EST ---------------------------------