Influences on cooperation in BitTorrent communities Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4184662, abstract = {We collect BitTorrent usage data across multiple file-sharing communities and analyze the factors that affect users' cooperative behavior. We find evidence that the design of the BitTorrent protocol results in increased cooperative behavior over other P2P protocols used to share similar content (e.g. Gnutella). We also investigate two additional community-specific mechanisms that foster even more cooperation.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Andrade, Nazareno and Mowbray, Miranda and Lima, Aliandro and Wagner, Gustavo and Ripeanu, Matei}, booktitle = {P2PECON '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Economics of peer-to-peer systems}, citeulike-article-id = {4184662}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1080192.1080198}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1080192.1080198}, doi = {10.1145/1080192.1080198}, isbn = {1-59593-026-4}, keywords = {2005, bittorrent, communities, cooperation}, location = {Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA}, pages = {111--115}, posted-at = {2009-10-02 13:01:00}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Influences on cooperation in BitTorrent communities}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1080192.1080198}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4184662 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4184662 N2 - We collect BitTorrent usage data across multiple file-sharing communities and analyze the factors that affect users' cooperative behavior. We find evidence that the design of the BitTorrent protocol results in increased cooperative behavior over other P2P protocols used to share similar content (e.g. Gnutella). We also investigate two additional community-specific mechanisms that foster even more cooperation. CY - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA SN - 1-59593-026-4 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 115 TI - Influences on cooperation in BitTorrent communities PB - ACM T2 - P2PECON '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Economics of peer-to-peer systems SP - 111 KW - 2005 KW - bittorrent KW - communities KW - cooperation AU - Andrade, Nazareno AU - Mowbray, Miranda AU - Lima, Aliandro AU - Wagner, Gustavo AU - Ripeanu, Matei PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1080192.1080198 ER -