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• S. Serbu, P. Kropf and P. Felber, «HyPeer: Structured Overlay with Flexible-Choice Routing», Computer Networks, Elsevier, Volume 55, Issue 1, pp. 300-313, 2011


• P. Felber, P. Kropf, L. Leonini, T. Luu, M. Rajman and E. Rivière, «Collaborative Ranking and Profiling: Exploiting the Wisdom of Crowds in Tailored Web Search», DAIS 2010, Amsterdam, LNCS 6115, pp. 226-242, 2010


• S. Casera and P. Kropf, «Collaboration in scientific visualization», IEEE Advanced Engineering Informatics, 24(2), pp. 188-195, 2010


• C. Spielvogel, S. Serbu, P. Felber and P. Kropf, «Semantic Based Error Avoidance and Correction for Video Stream- ing», 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization, Prague 2008, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, vol. 279, pp. 73-92, 2010


• H. Sturzrehm, C. Fautsch and P. Kropf, «Field Report on Five Years of eLearning– Observations and Inspirations», 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU), Valencia, pp. 317-324, 2010.


• C. Spielvogel and P. Kropf. «Collaborative Quality-of-Service based Video Vonferencing». 14th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2010), Shanghai, China, IEEE, pp. 161-165, April 2010.


• C. Spielvogel and P. Kropf, «Application Layer Scalable Video Coding for the iPhone», 10th International Con- ference on Innovative Internet Community Services, Bangkok, LNI 165, pp. 130-139, 2010.


• R. Kummer, P. Kropf and P. Felber, «P2P Information Lookup, Collection, and Distribution in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks», in Boon-Chong Seet : Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing for Next Generation Distributed Environments: Advancing Conceptual and Algorithmic Applications, IGI Global, pp 1-25, 2009.


• R. Kummer, P. Kropf, J-F. Wagen and T. Maret, « Evaluation Platform for Large Scale P2P Mobile Ad-hoc Net- works», in Boon-Chong Seet : Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing for Next Generation Distributed Environments: Advancing Conceptual and Algorithmic Applications, IGI Global, pp 397-413, 2009.


• G. Babin, P. Kropf and D. Tutsch, «Application-layer traffic analysis of a Peer-to-Peer system», In IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 12, Number 5, pp. 70-77, 2008.


• C. Spielvogel, S.Serbu, P. Kropf, P. Felber, «A Model for Error Avoidance and Error Correction in Peer-to-Peer Networks», 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization, December 2008, Prague, Czech Republic


• R. Kummer, P. Kropf and P. Felber, «Building Multicast Trees in Ad-hoc Networks» Autonomics 2008, Turin, Italy, Spetember 2008


• T. Maret, R. Kummer, P. Kropf and J-F. Wagen. «Freemote Emulator : A Lightweight and Visual Java Emulator for WSN». 6th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communication (WWIC 2008), Tampere, Finland, LNCS 5031, pp. 92-103, May 2008.


• C. Spielvogel, L. Böszörmenyi, P. Kropf. «A Demo for Affinity based Content Delivery Architectures». 18th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, ACM Press , pp.107-108, May 2008


• S. Casera and P. Kropf. «Collaboration in Scinetific Visualization». 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2008), IEEE Press, pp. 1091-1096, Xi'an, China, April 2008.


• H. Sturzrehm, F. Aubert, P. Kropf and R. Corfu. «NeOS : Neuchâtel Online System». International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE), 4(2), pp.17-23, 2008.
  Earlier version of the paper in : 2nd International Workshop on e-learning and Virtual and Remote Laboratories 2008, ISBN 978-3-940793-17-1, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, February 14-15 2008.


• S. Serbu and P. Kropf and P. Felber. «Improving the Dependability of Prefix-Based Routing in DHTs». In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'07), Algarve, Portugal, LNCS 4803, pp 206-225, Springer Verlag, November 2007.


• S. Serbu, P. Kropf, and P. Felber. «Fault-Tolerant P2P Networks: How Dependable is Greedy Routing?» In Workshop on Dependable Application Support in Self-Organising Networks (DASSON'07), Edinburgh, UK, June 2007.


• S. Serbu, S. Bianchi, P. Kropf, and P. Felber. «Dynamic Load Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Systems: When Some Peers Are More Equal than Others». In IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 11, Number 4, pp. 53-61, 2007.


• L. Viet-Dung, P. Kropf and G. Babin, «A structured Peer-to-Peer system with integrated load balancing», Annals of Telecommunications, 61(11-12), pp 1329-1381, 2006


• S. Bianchi, S. Serbu, P. Felber, and P. Kropf. «Adaptive Load Balancing for DHT Lookups», 15th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'06), Arlington, Virginia, USA, October 2006.


• R. Kummer, P. Kropf, and P. Felber. «Distributed Lookup in Structured Peer-to-Peer Ad-Hoc Networks». In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'06), Montpellier, France, October 2006, LNCS 4276, pp 1541-1554, Springer Verlag


• S.Casera, H-H. Nägeli and P. Kropf, « Improving Usability of Collaborative Scientific Visualization Systems », IASTED conference on "Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing"(VIIP 2006) , Palma de Mallorca, Spain, ACTA Press, pp 76-81, August 2006.


• S. Serbu, S. Bianci, P. Kropf and P. Felber, «Dynamic load sharing in Peer-to-Peer systems: when some peers are more equal than others», MCETECH 2006, Montreal, May 2006.


• G. Babin, P. Kropf and D. Tutsch, «Application layer traffic analysis of a Peer-to-Peer system», MCETECH 2006, Montreal, May 2006.


• R. Kummer, P. Kropf, and P. Felber. «On the Feasibility of DHT Lookup in Ad-Hoc Networks», Research report RR-I-06-05.1, May 1, 2006.


• L. Viet-Dung, P. Kropf and G. Babin, « BALLS Simulator : Evaluator of a structured Peer-to-Peer system with integrated load balancing», Fourth IEEE International Conference on Computer Sciences, Research, Innovation and Vision for the Future (RIVF), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, February 2006.


• A. Le Bouthillier, T. Crainic and P. Kropf, «A guided cooperative search for the vehicle routing problem with timewindows», IEEE Intelligent Systems, 20(4), pp. 36–42, 2005.


• A. Le Bouthillier, T. Crainic and P. Kropf, «Towards a Guided Cooperative Search», MIC2005: The Sixth Metaheuristics International Conference, Vienna, Austria, 8 pages on CD-ROM, August 2005.


• L. Viet-Dung, P. Kropf and G. Babin, «A structured Peer-to-Peer system with integrated index and storage load balancing», Innovative Internet Computing Systems, Paris, June 2005, LNCS 3908, pp 41-52, Springer Verlag.


• S. Bassil, S. Rinderle, R. Keller, P. Kropf and M. Reichert «Preserving the Context of Interrupted Business Process Activities», In Proceedings of the Conference Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS’2005), pp. 38-45, Miami, FL, May 2005; Book chapter in Enterprise Information Systems VII, pp 149-154, Springer Netherlands, 2006


• S. Casera, P. Kropf and H-H. Nägeli, A Collaborative Extension of a Visualization System, In Proceedings of the Conference on Distributed Frameworks for Multimedia Applications DFMA'2005, IEEE press, pp. 176-182, Besançon, February 2005


• S. Bassil, S. Rinderle, R. Keller and P. Kropf, «A Workflow-Oriented System Architecture for the Management of Container Transportation», Second International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM’2004), Potsdam, Germany, LNCS 3080, Springer-Verlag, pp. 116-131, June 2004


• H. Ben-Ameur, F. Bédard, S. Vaucher, P. Kropf, B. Chaib-draa, R. Gérin-Lajoie, «NADIM-Travel: A MultiagentPlatform for Travel Services Aggregation», 11th International Conference on Information Technology Tourism (ENTER 2004), Springer Verlag, Cairo, Egypt, January 2004


• H. Ludolph, G. Babin and P. Kropf. «A Communication Framework Towards Flexible Associations of Businessentities within Evolving systems». The third IFIP Conference on E-Commerce, E-Business & E-Government - I3E2003, IFIP Conference Proceedings. Vol. 268. Kluwer. pp. 175-186. September 2003.


• N. Troudi and P. Kropf. «Agents and P2P Combined For E-commerce». 2002 Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (ASTC 2003), Orlando, FL, pp. 71-76, April 2003.


• S. Bassil, B. Bourbeau, P. Kropf and R. Keller. «A Dynamic Approach to Multi-transfer Container Management ». Odysseus 2003, Second International Workshop on Freight Transportation and Logistics, volume CDROM, Palermo, Italy, Mai 2003.


• H. Benameur, S. Vaucher, R. Gérin-Lajoie, P. Kropf, and B. Chaib-draa.Towards an agent-basedapproach for multimarket package e-procurement. International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICERC-5), volume CD-ROM. CRT, Montreal, October 2002.


• A. Kia, E. Aïmeur and P.Kropf. aKIA Automobile : a Multi-Agent System in E-Commerce. Inter-national Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICERC-5), volume CD-ROM. CRT, Montreal, October 2002.


• D. Blodgett, B. Chaib-draa, P. Plamondon, P. Kropf and E. Bossé. A Method to Optimize Ship Maneuvers for the Coordination of Hardkill and Softkill Weapons within a Frigate. 7th International Command and Control Research Technology Symposium, Quebec City, 15 pages, September 2002.


• S. Bassil, M. Benyoucef, R. Keller and P. Kropf. Addressing Dynamism in E-negotiations by Workflow Management Systems. 3rd e-Negotiations Workshop at DEXA 02, Aix-en-Provence, France, IEEE Press, pp. 655–659, September 2002.


• J. Vaucher, G. Babin, P. Kropf and Th Jouve. Experimenting with Gnutella Communities, Distributed Communities on the Web (DCW 2002), Sydney, Australia. LNCS 2468, Springer Berlin, pp.85-99, April 2002.


• R. Saliba, G. Babin and P. Kropf. Secadvise : A Security Mechanisme Advisor. Distributed Communities on the Web (DCW 2002), Sydney, Australie, LNCS 2468, Springer, Berlin, pp. 35–40, April 2002.


• S. Khoury, P. Kropf and G. Babin. Resource Warehouses; a Distributed Information Warehouse Infrastructure. 2002 Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (ASTC 2002), San Diego, CA, pp. 239-244, April 2002.


• S. Yuen, P. Kropf and G. Babin. Optimization of Distributed Communities Using Cooperative Strategies. Innovative Internet Computing Systems. Ilmenau, Germany, LNCS 2346, Springer Berlin, pp. 153–168, June 2002.


• H. Benameur, B. Chaib-draa and P.G. Kropf. «Multi-item auctions for automatic negotiations», Journal of Information and Software Technologies. 44/5 pp. 291-301, 2002.


• G. Babin, T. Crainic, M. Gendreau, R. Keller, P.G. Kropf, and J. Robert. «Towards Electronic Market-places: A Progress Report», ICECR-4, Dallas, TX, pp. 637­648, November 2001.


• B. Chaib-draa, D. Blodgett and P.G. Kropf.«A Study of the Coordination of Agents Performing AAW Hardkill and Softkill for the HALIFAX Class Frigate», AAAI Fall Symposium on Intent Inference for Collaborative Tasks, North Falmouth, MA, November 2001.


• S. Yuen, P.G. Kropf, H. Unger and G. Babin. «Simulation of communities of nodes in a wide area distributed system», EUROSIM 2001, Delft, Holland, June 2001.


• B. Chaib-draa, P.G. Kropf and S. Paquet. «A teamwork test-bed for a decision support system», EUROSIM 2001, Delft, Holland, June 2001.


• H. Benameur, B. Chaib-draa and P.G. Kropf. «Multiagent auctions for multiple items», Autonomous Agents 2001 - AOIS, Montréal, Canada, pp. 33­40, June 2001.


• N. Abdennadher, G. Babin and P.G. Kropf. «A WOS based solution for high performancecomputing», IEEE-CCGRID 2001, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 568­573, Mai 2001.


• P.G. Kropf and J. Plaice. «Intensional Communities». in Intensional Programming II, World Scientific Press, Singapore, pp. 292-296, 2000.


• P.G. Kropf, B. Chaib-draa and B.A. Chalmers. «Resource Management in Socio-Technical Systems: A Multi-Agent Coordination Framework», HMS 2000, Portofino, Italy, pp. 65­70, October 2000.


• Kropf, H. Unger and G. Babin. «WOS: an Internet Computing Environment». In Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing, IEEE International Conference on Parallel Architecture and Compilation Techniques. Philadelphia, PA, pp. 14­22, October 2000.


• Unger and P.G. Kropf. «Overview of the WOS project», 45th International Scientific Colloquium, Ilmenau, Germany, October 2000.


• P.G. Kropf, M. Wulff and H. Unger. «Message chains and disjunct paths for increasing communication performance in large networks», in Distributed Communities on the Web (DCW 2000), Quebec City, LNCS 1830, Springer, Berlin, pp. 123­132, June 2000.


• J. Pacquet and P.G. Kropf. «The GIPSY architecture», in Distributed Communities on the Web (DCW 2000), Quebec City, LNCS 1830, Springer, Berlin, pp. 144-153, June 2000.


• N. Abdennadher, G. Babin, P. Kropf and P. Kuonen. «A dynamically configurable environment for high performance computing», in 2000 Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (ASTC 2000). Washington, USA, pp. 236­241, April 2000.


• E. Badidi, R. Keller, P.G. Kropf and V. van Dongen, «The Design of a Trader based CORBA Load Sharing Service», in Twelfth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS'99), Fort Lauderale, FL, pp. 75­80, August 1999.


• P.G. Kropf and J. Plaice. «Intensional objects». in ISLIP'99. Athens, Greece, pp. 180-187, June 1999.


• .G. Kropf, «Overview of the Web Operating System project», High Performance Computing Symposium 99. The Society for Computer Simulation International, San Diego, CA, pp. 350­ 356, April 1999.


• P.G. Kropf, G. Babin and H. Unger. Two-level communication protocol for a Web Operating System (WOS). Euromicro Conference, IEEE press, pp. 939-944, August 1998.


• P.G. Kropf and J. Plaice. «WOS communities ­ interactions and relations between entities in distributed system». in Distributed Computing on the Web (DCW'99). Rostock, Germany, pp. 163-167, June 1999.


• P.G. Kropf, G. Babin and A. Hulot. «Réduction des besoins en communication de CORBA». Colloque International sur les Nouvelles Technologies de la Répartition (NOTERE'98). Montréal, Canada, pp. 73­84, October 1998.


• E. Badidi, R. Keller, P.G. Kropf and V. Van Dongen. «LoDACE: une architecture de partage dans les systèmes distribués objets». in Colloque International sur les Nouvelles Technologies de la Répartition (NOTERE'98). Montréal, Canada, pp. 281­296, October 1998.


• P.G. Kropf and H. Unger. «An Approach for the Resource Scheduling in the WOS». in Distributed Computing on the Web (DCW'98). Rostock, Germany, pp. 134­140, June 1998.


• E. Badidi, R. Keller, P.G. Kropf and V. Van Dongen. «Dynamic Server Selection in Distributed Object Computing Systems». in Distributed Computing on the Web (DCW'98). Rostock, Germany, pp. 39­47, June 1998.


• H. Unger, P.G. Kropf, G. Babin and T. Böhme, «Simulation of Search and Distribution Methods for Jobs in a WEB Operating System». In High Performance Computing Symposium 98. The Society for Computer Simulation International, Boston, MA, pp. 253­259, April 1998.


• P.G.Kropf, J.Plaice and H.Unger «Towards a WebOperating System» Webnet ’97, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Toronto, Canada, 2 pages on CD, November 1997.


• S.Ben Lamine, P.G.Kropf and J.Plaice, «Problems of Computing on the Web», High Performance Computing Symposium 97, A.Tentner,ed., The Society for Computer Simulation International, Atlanta, GA, pp.296–301, April 1997.


• P.G.Kropf and J.Plaice,«Networking and computing: From the Chip to the Web», 9th International Symposium on Languages for Intensional Programming, E.Ashcroft, ed., Arizona State University Tempe, AZ, pp. 1–4, Mai 1996.