Abstract—Resource sharing on the Internet is becoming increasingly pervasive. Recently, there is growing interest in distributed systems such as peer-to-peer and grid, with effor...
In distributed work systems, individual users perform work for other users. A significant challenge in these systems is to provide proper incentives for users to contribute as muc...
The recent and unprecedented surge of public interest in peer-to-peer file sharing has led to a variety of interesting research questions. In this paper, we will address the ince...
Philippe Golle, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Ilya Mironov, ...
Incentives for resource sharing are crucial for the proper operation of P2P networks. The principle of the incentive mechanisms in current content sharing P2P networks such as Bit...
Pawel Garbacki, Dick H. J. Epema, Maarten van Stee...
—We study the optimal usage-based pricing problem in a resource-bounded network with one profit-maximizing service provider and multiple groups of surplus-maximizing users. We ...