New insights in Peer-to-Peer carsharing and ridesharing participation intentions: Evidence from the “provider-user” perspective

Promoting Peer-to-Peer Ridesharing Services as Transit System Feeders

A Simple Proactive Provider Participation Technique in a Mesh-Based Peer-to-Peer Streaming Service

The design of efficient protocols for mesh-based Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks has many challenges, one of them is bandwidth allocation. On one hand, peers demand high Quality of Experience and network traffic when they watch their streaming contents. On the other, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) support their business with the capacity of their international links. A recent strategy considered...

Motivating Participation in Peer to Peer Communities

One of the most important prerequisites for the success of a peer to peer system is the availability of participants willing to provide resources (files, computational cycles, time and effort to the community). Free riders may not do any harm in file-sharing peer to peer applications, like NAPSTER, because of the nature of electronic data. It can be reproduced at no cost; downloading a copy doe...

a comparative study of the relationship between self-, peer-, and teacher-assessments in productive skills

تمایل به ارزیابی جایگزین و تعویض آن با آزمون سنتی مداد و کاغذ در سالهای اخیر افزایش یافته است. اکثر زبان آموزان در کلاس های زبان از نمره نهایی که استاد تعیین میکند ناراضی اند. این تحقیق جهت بررسی ارزیابی در کلاس های زبان انگلیسی به هدف رضایتمندی زبان آموزان از نمره هایشان انجام گرفته است که در آن نمرات ارائه شده توسط سه گروه ارزیاب (ارزیابی خود دانشجو، همسالان واستاد) در مهارت های تولید (تکل...

Analysis of Peer-to-peer Service Provider in Queuing Networks

In this paper, we anatomize incentive structures in peer assisted services with multiple content providers and focus on stability issues from two different angles: stability at equilibrium of Shapley value and convergence to the equilibrium. We first define a coalition game in a peer assisted service with multiple content providers by classifying the types of coalition structures as separated, ...