Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

International Conference on User Modeling

UM 2003: User Modeling 2003 pp 218–227Cite as

Motivating Cooperation on Peer to Peer Networks

  • Conference paper
  • First Online:

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 2702))

Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of free riding on peer-to-peer resource-sharing networks and explores methods for motivating more cooperative user behaviour via an adaptive interface. The paper argues that the free-riding problem is not so much an economic issue as a socio-psychological one due to a paradigm shift the user community is undergoing. Users do not yet understand that they, and all of their peers, are both clients and servers and must therefore be taught new behaviour. Our method stimulates community awareness and highlights the cause and effect relationship between user behaviour and performance (QoS) consequences. Modeling the user’s interests, attitude and relationships with other users enables the interface to adapt to the individual’s cooperativeness bias and give feedback on current community structure and activity. Feedback is delivered in the form of graphs, animations and informative text.

This work has been supported by Canadian NSERC and CRA-Women Peer Mentor Grants.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD   54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. Adar, E. & Huberman, B.A., (2000). Free Riding on Gnutella. Available online at http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_10/adar/

    Google Scholar 

  2. Bornstein Pittman, R.S. (1992). Perception Without Awareness, New York, Guilford Press.

    Google Scholar 

  3. Erwin, P. (2001). Attitudes and Persuasion, Philadelphia, Psychology Press.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Fogg, B.J. (2000). Persuasive Technologies and Netsmart Devices in: Bergman, E. (ed.) Information Appliances and Beyond, Chapter 11, Morgan Kaufman.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Gnutella Developer Forum, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_gdf/

    Google Scholar 

  6. Golle, Ph., Leyton-Brown, K., Mironov, I. (2001) Incentives for Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Networks. Proc. EC’01, October 12–17, 2001, Tampa, Florida, ACM Press, 264–267.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Good, N.S., Krekelberg, A. Usability and privacy: a study of Kazaa P2P file-sharing. http://www.hpl.hp.com/shl/papers/kazaa/KazaaUsability.pdf

    Google Scholar 

  8. Greer J., McCalla G., Vassileva J., Deters R., Bull S., Kettel L. (2001) Lessons Learned in Deploying a Multi-Agent Learning Support System: The I-Help Experience, Proc. AI in Education AIED’2001, San Antonio, IOS Press: Amsterdam, 410–421.

    Google Scholar 

  9. Heath, R. (2001). The Hidden Power of Advertising, Oxfordshire, Publications.

    Google Scholar 

  10. Hubble Heritage Collection. Available online at http://heritage.stsci.edu/

    Google Scholar 

  11. Johnson, S. (2001). Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. New York: Scribner.

    Google Scholar 

  12. Jovanovic, M. (2001) Modeling Large Scale Peer-to-Peer Networks, M.Sc. Thesis, University of Cincinatti, http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~mjovanov/Research/gnutella.html

    Google Scholar 

  13. Kazaa Lite Version 2 http://www.fasttrackmovies.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=298

    Google Scholar 

  14. Khaslavsky, J. and Shedroff, N. (1999). Seductive Computing. Available online at http://captology.stanford.edu/Key_Concepts/Papers/CACMseduction.pdf

    Google Scholar 

  15. Maddock (2000). Motigraphics: The Analysis and Measurement of Human Motivations in Marketing, Wesport CT, Quorum Books.

    Google Scholar 

  16. MojoNation. Available on line at: www.mojonation.net

    Google Scholar 

  17. Shirky C., K. Truelove, R. Dornfest, L. Gonze. (2001) The Emergent Platform of Presence, Identity, and Edge Resources. O’Reilly 2001 Networking Overview, O’Reilly Online Catalog, Available at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/p2presearch/chapter/ch01.html

    Google Scholar 

  18. Shirky, C. (2000). In Praise of Freeriders. Available online at http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a//2000/12/01/shirky_freeloading.html

    Google Scholar 

  19. Shirky, C. (2000). Peers not Pareto. Available online at http://www.openp2p.com/lpt/a/p2p/2000/12/15/pareto.html

    Google Scholar 

  20. Vassileva, J. (2002) Motivating Participation in Peer to Peer Communities, Proc. ESAW02, Madrid. http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/%7Epaolo/conf/esaw02/esaw02accpapers.html.

    Google Scholar 

  21. Vassileva J. (2002) Motivating Participation in Virtual Communities, Proc. 12th International Conference of Women in Engineering and Science, ICWES’12, 28 July–2 August, Ottawa, Canada. Available at: http://julita.usask.ca/Texte/ICWES12.pdf

    Google Scholar 

  22. Voss, J.L. (2001) “Minds, Cultures, the Environment and Altruism: a meta-model using Particle Swarm + Agent Based Modeling” in Proc. Particle Swarm Optimization Workshop, Purdue University, Indianapolis. McGraw (2001).

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Computer Science Department, University of Toronto, Toronto

    Helen Bretzke

  2. Computer Science Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan

    Julita Vassileva

Authors
  1. Helen Bretzke
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Julita Vassileva
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Information Sciences, Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh, 135 North Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA

    Peter Brusilovsky

  2. Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    Albert Corbett

  3. Intelligent Interfaces, Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy

    Fiorella de Rosis

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2003 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

Bretzke, H., Vassileva, J. (2003). Motivating Cooperation on Peer to Peer Networks. In: Brusilovsky, P., Corbett, A., de Rosis, F. (eds) User Modeling 2003. UM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2702. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44963-9_30

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44963-9_30

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-40381-4

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-540-44963-8

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation