In cognitive networks, since nodes generally belong to different authorities and pursue different goals, they will not cooperate with others unless cooperation can improve their ow...
As an emerging trend in outsourcing, cooperative sourcing is the merging of similar processes of several firms when, for example, several banks merge their payments processing and...
Daniel Beimborn, Hermann-Josef Lamberti, Tim Weitz...
Cooperation between rational users in wireless networks is studied using coalitional game theory. Using the rate achieved by a user as its utility, it is shown that the stable coal...
An interesting problem which has been widely investigated is under what circumstances will a society of rational agents realize some particular stable situations, and whether they ...
A patent pending, energy based, method is presented for controlling a haptic interface system to ensure stable contract under a wide variety of operating conditions. System stabil...