Mechanisms for (mis)allocating scientific credit

Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 529-538

  Kleinberg, Jon ^a   Oren, Sigal ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

algorithmic game theory; congestion games; scientific credit

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PATHOLOGY;

ALGORITHMIC GAME THEORY; CONGESTION GAMES; MATTHEW EFFECTS; OPTIMALITY; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SCIENTIFIC CREDIT;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 79959719232     PISSN: 07378017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1993636.1993707     Document Type: Conference Paper

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