Result: Club Formation by Rational Sharing: Content, Viability and Community Structure

Title:
Club Formation by Rational Sharing: Content, Viability and Community Structure
Authors:
Dah Ming Chiu, W. K. Lin, Wai-Yin Ng
Source:
Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN: 9783540309000
Publication Status:
Preprint
Publisher Information:
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
Publication Year:
2005
Subject Terms:
Computer Science - Networking and Internet Architecture, Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Physics - Physics and Society, Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech), 05 social sciences, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, FOS: Physical sciences, Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph), 02 engineering and technology, Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics, 0505 law
Document Type:
Book Part of book or chapter of book<br />Article
ISSN:
1432-0541
0178-4617
DOI:
10.1007/11600930_17
DOI:
10.1007/s00453-007-9110-x
DOI:
10.48550/arxiv.cs/0509052
Access URL:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0509052
http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0509052
Rights:
Springer TDM
arXiv Non-Exclusive Distribution
Accession Number:
edsair.doi.dedup.....f74a5ab558f1171a4bf357bf197abaab
Database:
OpenAIRE

Further Information

A sharing community prospers when participation and contribution are both high. We suggest the two, while being related decisions every peer makes, should be given separate rational bases. Considered as such, a basic issue is the viability of club formation, which necessitates the modelling of two major sources of heterogeneity, namely, peers and shared content. This viability perspective clearly explains why rational peers contribute (or free-ride when they don't) and how their collective action determines viability as well as the size of the club formed. It also exposes another fundamental source of limitation to club formation apart from free-riding, in the community structure in terms of the relation between peers' interest (demand) and sharing (supply).
accepted in WINE2005, Hong Kong, December 15-17, 2005