The role of compatibility in the diffusion of technologies through social networks

EC'07 - Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 75-83

  Immorlica, Nicole ^a   Kleinberg, Jon ^b   Mahdian, Mohammad ^c   Wexler, Tom ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

^c YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithmic game theory; Contagion on networks; Diffusion of innovations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC GAME THEORY; CONTAGION ON NETWORKS; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS; NON MONOTONICITY PROPERTIES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MESSAGE PASSING; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 36448957951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1250910.1250923     Document Type: Conference Paper

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