Three new journals from Springer.

"Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications" will carry "state-of-the-art" research and development results that help facilitate effective deployment of P2P networking and applications. Its mission is to encourage interaction between academic and industrial professionals and to promote further research that leads to new P2P applications and services.

Content will not only cover research topics related to networking and communications theory, but also to the standardization, economic and engineering aspects of P2P technologies and their impact on software engineering, computer engineering, networked communications and security. It will be published twice in 2008 and quarterly beginning in 2009.

Springer has also begun the quarterly publication of "Swarm Intelligence," a journal that reports on research and developments in the field of swarm intelligence, including the theoretical, experimental and practical aspects of swarm intelligence. Content covers such issues as: modeling and analysis of biological systems, including human crowds; the application of swarm intelligence models to problems associated with distributed computing, data clustering, and decision making; and, research in insect colonies, human behavior and swarm robotics.

Finally, Springer has launched "Biosemiotics," a quarterly journal that provides access to papers on the emerging discipline of biosemiotics and biological theory. The official publication of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies, the new title is targeted to a wide range of professionals in disciplines ranging from social semiotics to community ecology, communication science and artificial intelligence. The first issue includes articles on: molecular semiotics; the investigation for a genetic protolanguage; perception in sensing and cognitive processes; and, an overview of biosemiotics.