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Levin, David - 2010

-compatible systems, I apply mechanisms from game theory and auction theory to protocol design. This approach has been considered in prior … challenge in applying mechanism design and game theory to large-scale systems: the goals and assumptions of economic mechanisms …, game theory often assumes that each player is able to observe everyone else's actions, or at the very least know how many …

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Construction price formation : full-cost pricing or neoclassical microeconomic theory?

Skitmore, Martin; Runeson, Goran; Chang, Xinling - 2006

Neo-classical microeconomic theory has been suggested to offer (1) an appropriate analytical tool for construction …

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A fuzzy approach to risk based decision making

Hussain, Omar; Chang, Elizabeth; Hussain, Farookh; … - 2006

Decision making is a tough process. It involves dealing with a lot of uncertainty and projecting what the final outcome might be. Depending on the projection of the uncertain outcome, a decision has to be made. In a peer-to-peer financial interaction the trusting agent, in order to analyse the...

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Context and time dependent risk based decision making

Hussain, Omar; Chang, Elizabeth; Hussain, Farookh; … - 2006

As there is a lack of central management in an ecommerce interaction carried out based on peer-to-peer architecture, it is obvious for the trusting peer to analyze the Risk beforehand that could be involved in dealing with a trusted peer in these types of interactions. Another characteristic of...

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Reputation ontology for reputation systems

Chang, Elizabeth; Hussain, Farookh; Dillon, Tharam S. - 2005

The growing development of web-based reputation systems in the 21st century will have a powerful social and economic impact on both business entities and individual customers, because it makes transparent quality assessment on products and services to achieve customer assurance in the...

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Formalizing a grammar for reputation in peer-to-peer communication

Hussain, Farookh; Chang, Elizabeth; Dillon, Tharam S. - 2005

Trust between communicating peers is increasingly catching the attention of the research community. Several methods have been proposed to assist the task of establishing trust between communicating peers; all of which make use of reputation mechanisms. We find that in present literature,...

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Light-Weight Overlay Path Selection in a Peer-to-Peer Environment

Fei, Teng; Tao, Shu; Gao, Lixin; Guérin, Roch A; … - 2006

Large-scale peer-to-peer systems span a wide range of Internet locations. Such diversity can be leveraged to build overlay “detours” to circumvent periods of poor performance on the default path. However, identifying which peers are “good” relay choices in support of such detours is...

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The Virtual Commons: Why Free-Riding Can Be Tolerated in File Sharing Networks

Krishnan, Ramayya; Smith, Michael D.; Tang, Zhulei; … - 2008

socially optimal network outcome. Our results are robust to consideration of a dynamic game where content is duplicated in the …

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Resilient Reputation and Trust Management: Models and Techniques

Xiong, Li - 2005

The continued advances in service-oriented computing and global communications have created a strong technology push for online information sharing and business transactions among enterprises, organizations and individuals. While these communities offer enormous opportunities, they also present...

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Modeling the risk relationships and defining the risk set

Hussain, Omar; Chang, Elizabeth; Hussain, Farookh; … - 2005

In a peer-to-peer financial transaction there is a possibility of the trusted peer engaging in an untrustworthy manner and in a negative behaviour on the buyer's expense resulting in the loss of the buyer's resources. This possibility of the loss in the buyer's resources is termed as Risk. Hence...

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