An economic mechanism for better Internet security

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 811-821

  Zhao, Xia ^a   Fang, Fang ^b   Whinston, Andrew B ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Certificates; Information Security; Interdependent security; Internet security; Mechanism design

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

CERTIFICATES; INFORMATION SECURITY; INTERDEPENDENT SECURITY; INTERNET SECURITY; MECHANISM DESIGN;

MECHANISMS;

EID: 53349109106     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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