A tutorial on interactive sensing in social networks

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-21

  Krishnamurthy, Vikram ^a   Poor, H Vincent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination; correlated equilibria; data incest; game theoretic learning; information diffusion; reputation systems; social learning; social sampling

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GAME THEORY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COORDINATION; CORRELATED EQUILIBRIA; DATA INCESTS; GAME-THEORETIC LEARNING; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; REPUTATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL LEARNING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84899565101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2329924X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSS.2014.2307452     Document Type: Article

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