On studying relationship between altruism and the psychological phenomenon of self-deception in rational and autonomous networks

Proceedings - 32nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, ICDCSW 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 336-341

  Wang, Yufeng ^a   Vasilakos, Athanasios V ^b   Jin, Qun ^c   Ma, Jianhua ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Altruism; autonomous networks; Belief; incentive mechanisms

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; AUTONOMOUS NETWORKS; BELIEF; COOPERATIVE MECHANISMS; FREE-RIDERS; INCENTIVE MECHANISM; OPEN NETWORKING; P2P SYSTEM; PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEM; RATIONAL AGENTS; STABLE EQUILIBRIUM;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 84866431009     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCSW.2012.32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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