Combinatorial agency with audits

Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Game Theory for Networks, GameNets '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 374-383

  Eidenbenz, Raphael ^a   Schmid, Stefan ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITING MECHANISM; COMMON PROJECTS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC THEORIES; GRID COMPUTING SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL CHOICE; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PRINCIPAL-AGENT MODEL; PROJECT SUCCESS; TRANSITION POINT;

ECONOMICS; GRID COMPUTING; OPTIMIZATION;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 70349990282     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GAMENETS.2009.5137423     Document Type: Conference Paper

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