This paper presents our on-going research into self-organizing and
self-healing networks of resource brokers, for use in complex Peer-to-Peer
(P2P) resource sharing and Grid computing application environments.
It discusses our objectives for an efficient, robust, and de-centrally
controlled infrastructure, and describes our efforts to understand the
co-dependencies between protocols, topologies, and continuously changing
environmental conditions. Motivated by dynamic social and economic systems,
our research project is nicknamed AESOP, for Adaptive Economic Society
Of Peers. We discuss our specific investigations into adaptive topologies
for flooding-based distributed search protocols, Genetic Algorithm explorations
seeking good topological structures, and current work to develop an
agent-based simulation to investigate the effects of peer transience
on P2P join and topology maintenance protocols.
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