Incentives engineering for structured P2P systems - A feasibility demonstration using economic experiments

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 280-289

  Schosser, Stephan ^a   Böhm, Klemens ^a   Schmidt, Rainer ^b   Vogt, Bodo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Economic Experiments; Free Riding; Game Theory; Social Exchange; Structured Peer to Peer Networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA ACQUISITION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GAME THEORY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

ECONOMIC EXPERIMENTS; FREE-RIDING; SOCIAL EXCHANGE; STRUCTURED PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33748676845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1134707.1134738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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