Incentives for sharing in peer-to-peer networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Electronic Commerce
Peer-to-peer data trading to preserve information
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Identifying Arbitrage Opportunities in E-markets
EC-WEB '02 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on E-Commerce and Web Technologies
A peer-to-peer approach to wireless LAN roaming
Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile applications and services on WLAN hotspots
Stimulating cooperation in self-organizing mobile ad hoc networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
A Game Theoretic Framework for Incentives in P2P Systems
P2P '03 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
Exchange-Based Incentive Mechanisms for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
ICDCS '04 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'04)
Incentive mechanisms for large collaborative resource sharing
CCGRID '04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Clearing algorithms for barter exchange markets: enabling nationwide kidney exchanges
Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
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The remarkable recent story of Kyle MacDonald who, by means of a sequence of bartering exchanges between July 2005 and July 2006, managed to trade a small red paperclip for a full sized house in the town of Kipling Saskatchewan has inspired interesting debates about the nature of such feats and questions as to how they might come about. While bartering is arguably the world's oldest form of trade, there are still cases such as this which surprise us. Although there are many factors to consider in Kyle's achievement, his feat raises basic questions about the nature of the trades made and to what extent they are repeatable. In this paper we provide an intuitive model for the type of trading environment experienced Kyle and study its consequences in order to analyze in particular whether such trading phenomena require altruistic agents to be present in the environment and extending the experience with multiple goal seeking agents.