In recent years, extensive studies of many interesting aspects of virtual community dynamics promoted a better understanding of this area. One of the most challenging problems fac...
— We propose and analyze a novel decentralized mechanism that motivates otherwise non-cooperative stations to participate as relays in cooperative ARQ protocol. Cooperation incen...
Igor Stanojev, Osvaldo Simeone, Umberto Spagnolini...
Abstract. Most of the existing research in peer-to-peer systems focuses on protocol design and doesn’t consider the rationality of each peer. One phenomenon that should not be ig...
“Real options” is often viewed as a valuable managerial tool of flexibility and exploration in new technology investment. Real options theory has been criticized, however, due...