A network economic game theory model of a service-oriented internet with choices and quality competition

NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 1-25

  Nagurney, Anna ^a,b   Li, Dong ^a   Wolf, Tilman ^c,d   Saberi, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^d IMDEA NETWORKS INSTITUTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Game theory; Projected dynamical systems; Quality competition; Service differentiation; Service oriented internet; Variational inequalities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878992980     PISSN: 13859587     EISSN: 15737071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11066-013-9076-6     Document Type: Article

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