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Title: A Dynamic Pricing Mechanism for P2P Referral Systems
Author: Bin Yu, Cuihong Li, Munindar P. Singh, and Katia Sycara
Book Tittle: Proceedings of Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Pages: 1426--1427
Year: 2004
Abstract: Most existing research on peer-to-peer systems focuses on protocol design. In this paper, we consider the issue of free riding in peer-to-peer referral systems. Free riders are agents that refuse either to answer a query or to give referrals. Free riding is detrimental to the system, since it may prevent requesters from finding high quality providers efficiently. To mitigate the issue of free riding, we propose a dynamic pricing mechanism to motivate the agents to behave rationally. Service providers learn appropriate prices of referrals and answers in order to maximize their payoffs through stochastic iterative learning algorithms.

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@InProceedings{yu04b,
  author =	 {Bin Yu and Cuihong Li and Munindar P. Singh and
                  Katia Sycara},
  title =	 {A Dynamic Pricing Mechanism for P2P Referral
                  Systems},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of Third International Joint Conference
                  on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems},
  pages =	 {1426--1427},
  year =	 2004,
  abstract =	 {Most existing research on peer-to-peer systems
                  focuses on protocol design. In this paper, we
                  consider the issue of free riding in peer-to-peer
                  referral systems. Free riders are agents that refuse
                  either to answer a query or to give referrals. Free
                  riding is detrimental to the system, since it may
                  prevent requesters from finding high quality
                  providers efficiently. To mitigate the issue of free
                  riding, we propose a dynamic pricing mechanism to
                  motivate the agents to behave rationally. Service
                  providers learn appropriate prices of referrals and
                  answers in order to maximize their payoffs through
                  stochastic iterative learning algorithms.},
  url = 	 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/yu04b.pdf},
  googleid = 	 {9S0m5ngwnfYJ:scholar.google.com/},
  cluster = 	 {17770413000489315829}
}
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