Using the iterated prisoner's dilemma for explaining the evolution of cooperation in open source communities

OSS 2005 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Open Source Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 186-191

  Eckert, Daniel ^a   Koch, Stefan ^b   Mitlöhner, Johann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION; FITNESS MEASURES; ITERATED PRISONER'S DILEMMA; OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES; OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; PRISONER'S DILEMMA; THE STANDARD MODEL; TWO PERSON GAME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFECTS; GAME THEORY; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 68349102457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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