Aplicação móvel para a prestação de serviços peer-to-peer no âmbito da share economy

• Autor(a) principal: Cristiano Filipe Teixeira Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/104325
• topic: Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática; Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

Share economies began to have a greater scale and impact at the end of the first decade of the 21st century in order to taking advantage of the rising of the new technologies and the Internet, which keeps us increasingly interconnected to recreate already existing a business model.This business model allows any person provide services or sell/rent goods that are not used and create income. The change in this business model is the scale. Now, it work on global scale and more people can benefit from these new services. This increased scale of share economies has created a new type of market, the peer-to-peer market. This market works, in most cases, online and allows people to find services provided by others. These markets have as main point being fundamental trust that there are mechanisms for the establishment of such trust.The goal of this dissertation will be reviewing this business model and in particular the provision of peer-to-peer services, so as to create a proof-of-concept application, to be used for courier delivery of meals. It will need to explore all the problems related to the business model in question, being the great challenge of this business area and creating trust on the part of users. Therefore, it is essential to investigate and devise ways to increase the trust of users in service providers and in the system itself.Another important area in applications of share economy, is the form of payment of the service. To facilitate these transactions, often payments are not in cash but by the application itself. It will be necessary to ensure that all the payment stream is correctly and safely.It is also important to predict conflicts between multiple users and provide the system of rules that assess and easily solve. These rules may be using various sensors of smartphones, such as the GPS.