In this paper, we model the cost incurred by each peer participating in a peer-to-peer network. Such a cost model allows to gauge potential disincentives for peers to collaborate,...
Organisations can be defined as a set of entities regulated by mechanisms of social order and created by more or less autonomous actors to achieve common goals. Multi-agent systems...
A set of jobs need to be served by a single server which can serve only one job at a time. Jobs have processing times and incur waiting costs (linear in their waiting time). The j...
Persons with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) may show certain types of deviations in social functioning. Since the discovery of mirror neuron systems and their role in social fun...
Previous research suggests that a decline in transactions costs leads to improved economic efficiency. In this paper,weshowthatsuchadeclinewillintroduceincreasinglyuninformedconsu...