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Cosmopolis: A Massively Multiplayer Online Game for Social and Behavioral Research
Spraragen, Marc; Landwehr, Peter; Ranganathan, Balakrishnan - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 16 (2013) 1, pp. 9-9
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs), in their aspect as online communities, represent an exciting opportunity …
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Systems-compatible Incentives
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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Game Play Differences by Expertise Level in Dota 2, A Complex Multiplayer Video Game
Castaneda, Lisa; Sidhu, Manrita Kaur; Azose, Jonathan J.; … - In: International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated … 8 (2016) 4, pp. 1-24
Dota 2, a complex team based video game, was used to study expertise and attentional allocation in a multiplayer online … battle arena (MOBA) setting. Pre- and post-play survey questions and eye-tracker data were collected from 67 video game … players during a session of Dota 2 play. Questions explored abstract versus concrete conceptualizations of game-play and …
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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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L'Etat, les agents économiques et les règles
Albagli, Claude - In: Mondes en développement 129 (2005) 1, pp. 41-58
its controversies. Neo-Keynesians have had to deal with transformation of Marxist analysis and the "Structuralists …" widening of vision. Neo-Walrasians remain challenged by the refusal of the market system to enlarge or theories about imperfect …
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Comparing Peer-to-Peer and Individual Learning: Teaching Basic Computer Skills to Disadvantaged Adults
Katz, Larry; Kelly, Patrick - In: International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and … 7 (2016) 4, pp. 1-15
Peer-to-peer (P2P) learning within two distinct groups of disadvantaged adults was studied during a two-hour computer skills workshop. Of interest was whether or not P2P learning with this population was a viable method for increasing performance and confidence. Two qualified instructors at two...
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Blogracy: A Peer-to-Peer Social Network
Franchi, Enrico; Poggi, Agostino; Tomaiuolo, Michele - In: International Journal of Distributed Systems and … 7 (2016) 2, pp. 37-56
The current approach to build social networking systems is to create huge centralized systems owned by a single company. However, such strategy has many drawbacks, e.g., lack of privacy, lack of anonymity, risks of censorship and operating costs. In this paper the authors propose a novel P2P...
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Social Computing: An Examination of Self, Social, and Use Factors
Vannoy, Sandra A.; Medlin, B. Dawn - In: International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social … 9 (2017) 4, pp. 31-47
This article explores the influence of social, self, and use factors on the intention to perform social computing actions in online social sites. A survey was conducted using peer-to-peer file sharing as representative of a social computing action. Collected data was analyzed using the...
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An Economist's Guide to Digital Music
Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2004
In this guide, we discuss the impact of digitalization on the music industry. We rely on market and survey data at the international level as well as expert statements from the industry. The guide investigates recent developments in legal and technological protection of digital music and...
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The performance of marketplace lenders: Evidence from lending club payment data
Kräussl, Roman; Kräussl, Zsofia; Pollet, Joshua; … - 2018
Direct financing of consumer credit by individual investors or non-bank institutions through an implementation of marketplace lending is a relatively new phenomenon in financial markets. The emergence of online platforms has made this type of financial intermediation widely available. This paper...
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