Sequential voting with externalities: Herding in social networks

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 36-

  Alon, Noga ^a,b   Babaioff, Moshe ^a   Karidi, Ron ^c   Lavi, Ron ^a,d   Tennenholtz, Moshe ^a,d  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

herding and cascades; sequential voting; utility externalities

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC IMAGE; SEQUENTIAL VOTING; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR; UTILITY EXTERNALITIES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84863528679     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2229012.2229019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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