A game-theoretic analysis of rank-order mechanisms for user-generated content

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 189-198

  Ghosh, Arpita ^a   Hummel, Patrick ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

attention economics; game theory; quality of online content; user generated content (UGC)

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION ECONOMICS; EQUILIBRIUM BEHAVIOR; GAME-THEORETIC MODEL; MIXED-STRATEGY EQUILIBRIUM; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 79959648882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1993574.1993603     Document Type: Conference Paper

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