Peer-to-Peer Bartering: Swapping Amongst Self-interested Agents

Large--scale distributed environments can be seen as a conflict between the selfish aims of the participants and the group welfare of the population as a whole. In order to regulate the behavior of the participants it is often necessary to introduce mechanisms that provide incentives and stimulate c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cabanillas, David
Other Authors: Willmott, Steven
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya 2009
Subjects:
P2P
004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/6658
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:9788469240571