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Incentives in Collaborative Applications

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Synonyms

Cooperation; Game theory; Over-justification; Social interaction; The prisoner’s dilemma

Glossary

Collaborative System:

A system that relies on the collaboration of its users when providing a service

Contribution:

Any user activity that is or might be of benefit to other users or the system itself

Extrinsic Interest:

Interest that is based on an outside stimulation (such as a reward)

Free Rider:

A participant who enjoys the contribution of others but fails to contribute or contributes significantly less than others

Intrinsic Interest:

Interest that is based on inner satisfaction

Definition

Collaborative systems rely on the cooperation of their users to provide a service. We can distinguish between various types of collaborative systems, such as Q&A services, social networking services, sharing platforms, and crowdsourcing platforms. Despite the fact that each one of these services and platforms has its own unique characteristics, they all rely on the cooperation of their...

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  1. Department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

    Elina Yaakobovich & Yuval Elovici

  2. University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), College Park, MD, USA

    Rami Puzis

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    V. S. Subrahmanian

  2. RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Melbourne, Australia

    Jeffrey Chan

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Yaakobovich, E., Puzis, R., Elovici, Y. (2017). Incentives in Collaborative Applications. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_375-1

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