IEEE Spectrum
The small-world phenomenon: an algorithmic perspective
STOC '00 Proceedings of the thirty-second annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Sharing the cost of multicast transmissions
Journal of Computer and System Sciences - Special issue on Internet algorithms
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness
Graphical Models for Game Theory
UAI '01 Proceedings of the 17th Conference in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
On computer viral infection and the effect of immunization
ACSAC '00 Proceedings of the 16th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Proceedings of the twenty-second annual symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Measuring and Modeling Computer Virus Prevalence
SP '93 Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Know thy neighbor's neighbor: the power of lookahead in randomized P2P networks
STOC '04 Proceedings of the thirty-sixth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Eclecticism shrinks even small worlds
Proceedings of the twenty-third annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Inoculation strategies for victims of viruses and the sum-of-squares partition problem
SODA '05 Proceedings of the sixteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy
Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy
When selfish meets evil: byzantine players in a virus inoculation game
Proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
On the topologies formed by selfish peers
Proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
The dynamics of viral marketing
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Congestion games with malicious players
Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Can you infect me now?: malware propagation in mobile phone networks
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM workshop on Recurring malcode
Bayesian Auctions with Friends and Foes
SAGT '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory
Better vaccination strategies for better people
Proceedings of the 11th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Limiting the spread of misinformation in social networks
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
Towards network games with social preferences
SIROCCO'10 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Structural Information and Communication Complexity
WINE'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Internet and Network Economics
Social context in potential games
WINE'12 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Internet and Network Economics
On the Windfall and price of friendship: Inoculation strategies on social networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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This paper studies a virus inoculation game on social networks. A framework is presented which allows the measuring of the windfall of friendship, i.e., how much players benefit if they care about the welfare of their direct neighbors in the social network graph compared to purely selfish environments. We analyze the corresponding equilibria and show that the computation of the worst and best Nash equilibrium is NP-hard. Intriguingly, even though the windfall of friendship can never be negative, the social welfare does not increase monotonically with the extent to which players care for each other. While these phenomena are known on an anecdotal level, our framework allows us to quantify these effects analytically.