Strategic reasoning about bundling in swarming systems

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 611-620

  Menasche, Daniel Sadoc ^a   Neglia, Giovanni ^b   Towsley, Don ^a   Zilberstein, Shlomo ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUNDLING STRATEGIES; EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS; NASH EQUILIBRIUM; NORMAL FORM; PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEM; STRATEGIC REASONING; USER DEMANDS;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROFITABILITY;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 70349994403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GAMENETS.2009.5137451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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