In many settings, agents need to identify competent partners to assist them in accomplishing tasks. Direct experience may not provide sufficient data to learn the competence of ot...
Consideration of cost and resource benefits generated from an alliance have prevailed the theoretical and empirical research about strategic alliances and value networks/ webs. As...
In this paper we use game theory to study nodes’ behavior in peer-to-peer networks when nodes receive service based on their reputation. Reputation is used as a mechanism to inc...
This paper introduces Online Alchemy's Otello technology as a way to enable reputational capabilities beyond any found in games or other online social contexts today. This te...