Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Artificial Life
Stigmergy, self-organization, and sorting in collective robotics
Artificial Life
Notions of reputation in multi-agents systems: a review
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
Reputation and social network analysis in multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
Prisoner's Dilemma
Leaving the Prison: Permitting Partner Choice and Refusal in Prisoner's Dilemma Games
Computational Economics
IEEE Internet Computing
A Social Mechanism of Reputation Management in Electronic Communities
CIA '00 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents IV, The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace
Core: a collaborative reputation mechanism to enforce node cooperation in mobile ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the IFIP TC6/TC11 Sixth Joint Working Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security: Advanced Communications and Multimedia Security
A Computational Model of Trust and Reputation for E-businesses
HICSS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 7 - Volume 7
Trust and Reputation Model in Peer-to-Peer Networks
P2P '03 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
SLIC: A Selfish Link-Based Incentive Mechanism for Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks
ICDCS '04 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'04)
Robust incentive techniques for peer-to-peer networks
EC '04 Proceedings of the 5th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
PeerTrust: Supporting Reputation-Based Trust for Peer-to-Peer Electronic Communities
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Information Diffusion in a Single-Hop Mobile Peer-to-Peer Network
ISCC '05 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
Overcoming free-riding behavior in peer-to-peer systems
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
SLACER: A Self-Organizing Protocol for Coordination in Peer-to-Peer Networks
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Improve Peer Cooperation Using Social Networks
ICPPW '07 Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops
Cooperation in Evolving Social Networks
Management Science
Improving cooperation in peer-to-peer systems using social networks
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
Evolution of cooperation using random pairing on social networks
SEAL'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning
A taxonomy of incentive patterns
AP2PC'03 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing
Ant system: optimization by a colony of cooperating agents
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
Applying a socially inspired technique (tags) to improve cooperation in P2P networks
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Opportunistic networking: data forwarding in disconnected mobile ad hoc networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Free-riding and whitewashing in peer-to-peer systems
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Coordination of cooperation policies in a peer-to-peer system using swarm-based RL
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Behavior-based reputation management in P2P file-sharing networks
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Intelligent search in social communities of smartphone users
Distributed and Parallel Databases
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We address the problem of cooperation in decentralized systems, specifically looking at interactions between independent pairs of peers where mutual exchange of resources (e.g., updating or sharing content) is required. In the absence of any enforcement mechanism or protocol, there is no incentive for one party to directly reciprocate during a transaction with another. Consequently, for such decentralized systems to function, protocols for self-organization need to explicitly promote cooperation in a manner where adherence to the protocol is incentivized. In this article we introduce a new generic model to achieve this. The model is based on peers repeatedly interacting to build up and maintain a dynamic social network of others that they can trust based on similarity of cooperation. This mechanism effectively incentivizes unselfish behavior, where peers with higher levels of cooperation gain higher payoff. We examine the model's behavior and robustness in detail. This includes the effect of peers self-adapting their cooperation level in response to maximizing their payoff, representing a Nash-equilibrium of the system. The study shows that the formation of a social network based on reflexive cooperation levels can be a highly effective and robust incentive mechanism for autonomous decentralized systems.