Title
Using incentives to analyze social web services’ behaviors
Source of Publication
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Abstract
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. This paper discusses how incentives allow social networks to attract more members and reward those that are honest by retaining them. These members referred to as social Web services process users’ requests in return for a certain usage fee and also expose certain behaviors in return of the incentives they receive. The usage fee is linked to a performance level that the social Web service needs to maintain at run time. In the case of any discrepancy between the usage fee and performance level the social Web service is expected to compensate users. However the compensation might not always take place. Simulation results illustrate why honesty is rewarding for social Web services, which has a positive impact on both their performance and the performance of the networks to which they belong.
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
ISBN
['9783319203690']
First Page
148
Last Page
160
Publication Date
1-1-2015
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-20370-6_12
Recommended Citation
Maamar, Zakaria; Costantino, Gianpiero; Petrocchi, Marinella; and Martinelli, Fabio, "Using incentives to analyze social web services’ behaviors" (2015). Scopus Indexed Articles. 1753.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/scopus-indexed-articles/1753