A better understanding of strategies and behavior of successful searchers is crucial for improving the experience of all searchers. However, research of search behavior has been s...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) anonymous communication systems are vulnerable to free-riders, peers that use the system while providing little or no service to others and whose presence limit...
Daniel R. Figueiredo, Jonathan K. Shapiro, Donald ...
Fair allocation of payoffs among cooperating players who can form various coalitions of differing utilities is the classic game theoretic “coalition problem.” Shapley’s va...
Cooperation enforcement is one of the key issues in ad hoc networks. In this paper we proposes a new strategy driven approach that aims at discouraging selfish behavior among netwo...
Marcin Seredynski, Pascal Bouvry, Mieczyslaw A. Kl...
In this paper we study the mechanism design problem of coalition formation and cost sharing in an electronic marketplace, where buyers can form coalitions to take advantage of dis...