To determine how to develop future software systems, we can use computational-sociology methods to analyze deployed systems that deliver desirable properties such as robustness and self-organization.
Index Terms:
distributed systems, computational sociology, BitTorrent, P2P, file sharing, tit-for-tat strategy, altruism
Citation:
David Hales, Simon Patarin, "Computational Sociology for Systems "In the Wild": The Case of BitTorrent," IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 2, July 2005, doi:10.1109/MDSO.2005.34