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Trust in Peer-to-Peer Digital Society: An Economics Perspective

Authors:
Dershing Luo
Jen Wel Chen
Ching Cha Hsieh

Keywords: trust; peer-to-peer (P2P); economics.

Abstract:
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technique manifests file sharing, distributed computing, and communication and collaboration between peers in contrast to client/ server architectures. P2P digital society is emerging in our life. It changes our way of living, work, and play. Meanwhile, the trust is still a core issue in P2P digital society. The objective of this paper is to survey trust in P2P digital society from the point of economics view. Through employing the framework previously proposed, some implications on trust in P2P applications are given from the economics perspective. In this paper, we analyze trust emerging in P2P digital society through the economics perspective from the following levels: technology, product, business process, market, and the macroeconomic.

Pages: 140 to 145

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: February 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3956

ISBN: 978-1-61208-116-8

Location: Gosier, Guadeloupe, France

Dates: from February 23, 2011 to February 28, 2011