MANSCI
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
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...
VTC
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
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...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
—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...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
When Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN) is used in commercial environments, incentive mechanism should be employed to encourage cooperation among selfish mobile users. Key challen...
JSAC
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
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...
CN
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
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...
EOR
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
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 ...
NETWORKING
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
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...
SIGUCCS
2000
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
2000
ACM
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...
ACMICEC
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2007
ACM
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...