Many of the issues facing the technology of P2P networks today (for example, trust, privacy, economics) are the same issues that arise in human social networks. In the P2P Sociology project, our goal is to address some of the technical issues in P2P networks by treating each peer as an adaptive, rule-based agent that mimics distilled and simplified human rules of behavior.

Our mission is to design distributed algorithms based on human behavior for interesting and important technical issues facing P2P networks.