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MANSCI
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Timing of Effort and Reward: Three-Sided Moral Hazard in a Continuous-Time Model
Businesses often need to face the problem of providing incentives for employees to work together effectively on projects that develop over time. This paper derives the optimal con...
Jun Yang
VTC
2010
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
MYRPA: An Incentive System with Reduced Payment Receipts for Multi-hop Wireless Networks
Abstract— In this paper, we propose an incentive system to stimulate the nodes’ cooperation in multi-hop wireless networks. Reducing the number and the size of the payment rece...
Mohamed Elsalih Mahmoud, Xuemin Shen
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
INPAC: An Enforceable Incentive Scheme for Wireless Networks using Network Coding
—Wireless mesh networks have been widely deployed to provide broadband network access, and their performance can be significantly improved by using a new technology called netwo...
Tingting Chen, Sheng Zhong
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
MobiCent: a Credit-Based Incentive System for Disruption Tolerant Network
When Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN) is used in commercial environments, incentive mechanism should be employed to encourage cooperation among selfish mobile users. Key challen...
Bin Bin Chen, Mun Choon Chan
JSAC
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Design of an Optimal Bayesian Incentive Compatible Broadcast Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks with Rational Nodes
Nodes in an ad hoc wireless network incur certain costs for forwarding packets since packet forwarding consumes the resources of the nodes. If the nodes are rational, free packet f...
N. Ram Suri, Y. Narahari
CN
2006
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13 years 11 months ago
Reputation-based policies that provide the right incentives in peer-to-peer environments
Peer-to-peer are popular environments for exchanging services. A reputation mechanism is a proper means of discovering low-performing peers that fail to provide their services. In...
Thanasis G. Papaioannou, George D. Stamoulis
EOR
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Response time and vendor-assembler relationship in a supply chain
Relationships between an assembler and a vendor in a supply chain are investigated in two-period models when the assembler wants to reduce response time by incentive systems. The ...
Seongje Ahn, Hosun Rhim, S. Hun Seog
NETWORKING
2008
14 years 29 days ago
Modeling Priority-Based Incentive Policies for Peer-Assisted Content Delivery Systems
Content delivery providers can improve their service scalability and offload their servers by making use of content transfers among their clients. To provide peers with incentive t...
Niklas Carlsson, Derek L. Eager
SIGUCCS
2000
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Developing and Implementing a Comprehensive Training and Incentive Program for Student Employees in Information Technology
Anyone who works with student employees knows that while it is often difficult to train sufficiently, it is of the utmost importance to have a qualified, knowledgeable staff. We w...
Jim Osborn
ACMICEC
2007
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Security when people matter: structuring incentives for user behavior
Humans are "smart components" in a system, but cannot be directly programmed to perform; rather, their autonomy must be respected as a design constraint and incentives p...
Rick Wash, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason