A demonstration of Tribler : peer-to-peer television

The success of Peer-to-Peer Television (P2P-TV) systems depends on the inducement of users to cooperate massively and voluntarily. To operationalize our proposed applications of incentives based on psychological backgrounds, we discuss a demonstration of our own P2P-TV system called Tribler. It is a system for downloading, video-on-demand (VoD), and live streaming of Television content. This paper discusses the demonstration of Tribler version 4.0 as the first operationalization of relevant psychological backgrounds

A demonstration of Tribler : peer-to-peer television

The success of Peer-to-Peer Television (P2P-TV) systems depends on the inducement of users to cooperate massively and voluntarily. To operationalize our proposed applications of incentives based on psychological backgrounds, we discuss a demonstration of our own P2P-TV system called Tribler. It is a system for downloading, video-on-demand (VoD), and live streaming of Television content. This paper discusses the demonstration of Tribler version 4.0 as the first operationalization of relevant psychological backgrounds

Sensing, Understanding, and Shaping Social Behavior

The ability to understand social systems through the aid of computational tools is central to the emerging field of computational social systems. Such understanding can answer epistemological questions on human behavior in a data-driven manner, and provide prescriptive guidelines for persuading humans to undertake certain actions in real-world social scenarios. The growing number of works in this subfield has the potential to impact multiple walks of human life including health, wellness, productivity, mobility, transportation, education, shopping, and sustenance. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, we provide a functional survey of recent advances in sensing, understanding, and shaping human behavior, focusing on real-world behavior of users as measured using passive sensors. Second, we present a case study on how trust, which is an important building block of computational social systems, can be quantified, sensed, and applied to shape human behavior. Our findings suggest that:1) trust can be operationalized and predicted via computational methods (passive sensing and network analysis) and 2) trust has a significant impact on social persuasion; in fact, it was found to be significantly more effective than the closeness of ties in determining the amount of behavior change.U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Cooperative Agreement W911NF-09-2-0053

Reforming Copyright Law in the Digital Age: a Comparative Study of the Legal Resolutions on P2P Transmission Between Taiwan and the United States

Adjusting legal system of copyright is vigorously in need in the twenty-first century. The abuse of technology has severely damaged the copyright-related industries not only in Taiwan, but also in the United States. Indeed, the lawsuits filed against modern P2P transmission are fairly unprecedented to courts when facing the tension between copyright holders and technology innovators. Therefore, the technological changes provide an enlightened motivation to develop the analysis on whether the approach that legislators and courts take would harmonize private property rights and public interests. Through the arguments, there are meaningful goals the study attempts to achieve. It is essential for the study to make clear the historical contexts of copyright which provides a broad view on how the new technology impact copyright law. The study would also propose a deliberate suggestion for Taiwanese government by virtue of analyzing and weighting the pros and cons of amendments for digital technology. Particularly, Taiwan is the first country embodying opinions of Grokster case in domestic copyright law; therefore, the comments on the appropriateness of the legislation would be highlighted hereby. The subjects cover the elements, policies and effects of the enactment. It is certainly meaningful to make such comparison in depth to identify the potential result of the future Taiwanese court\u27s decisions relating to its recently adopted articles. Therefore, all we discuss will benefit the Taiwanese legislative in the future

Influence of social communications on changes in marketing concept

In the article the influence of social communications on marketing concepts changing in the context of globalization development is considered. Using a combination of historical and socio-cultural approaches, the development of social communications was compared with the changing in marketing concepts. In order to trace the changes of social communications caused by the globalization, two globalization models were built (one for the period from the late 1980s to the end of 2000's and one to describe the current situation). It has been revealed, that a marketing concept, considered at a certain period as the basic one, is conditioned by the audience coverage, by its efficiency, and by the means of interaction that social communications and current global integration processes are capable to provide. Developing new, more effective social communications provides new opportunities for marketing activities and leads to the change of the basic marketing concept. Also, the main features of the most contemporary marketing concept "marketing 3.0" and of the business concept "Enterprise 2.0" which appeared due to the development of information technology and the new social communications (created through Web 2.0 technology) are presented. The positive and negative aspects of the concept "marketing 3.0" in the context of globalization development are shown