FREE RIDING, ALTRUISM, AND COOPERATION ON PEER-TO-PEER FILE-SHARING NETWORKS

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 914-920

  Samant, Kedar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; FREE-RIDERS; FREE-RIDING; GAME-THEORETIC; INCENTIVE STRUCTURE; P2P NETWORK; P2P SYSTEM; PEER-TO-PEER FILE-SHARING NETWORKS; PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS; POLICY MAKING;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 3142779431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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