Empirical agent based models of cooperation in public goods games

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 891-908

  Wunder, Michael ^a   Suri, Siddharth ^b   Watts, Duncan J ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based models; Cooperation; Modeling; Social networks

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MODELS; SIMULATION PLATFORM; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; COOPERATION; DEGREE ASSORTATIVITY; DEGREE DISTRIBUTIONS; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; PARSIMONIOUS MODELING; PUBLIC GOODS GAMES;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84879767502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2492002.2482586     Document Type: Conference Paper

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