A new mechanism for the free-rider problem

Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2005 Workshops: Conference on Computer Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 122-127

  Sanghavi, Sujay ^a   Hajek, Bruce ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Economics; Theory

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; COSTS; ECONOMICS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; THEORY;

FREE-RIDER PROBLEM; NASH EQUILIBRIUM OUTCOME; PUBLIC RESOURCES;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 29244472821     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1080192.1080200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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