To compete or cooperate? This is the question in communities of autonomous services

作者:

Highlights:

• We formalize the question of competing or cooperating for communities of agent-based services.

• We use the game-theoretic best response technique to analyze competitive/cooperative behaviors of autonomous services within communities.

• We analyze the computational complexity of the proposed decision mechanism and prove its efficiency.

• We confirm the theoretical results through extensive simulation using real dataset of services on the web.

摘要

•We formalize the question of competing or cooperating for communities of agent-based services.•We use the game-theoretic best response technique to analyze competitive/cooperative behaviors of autonomous services within communities.•We analyze the computational complexity of the proposed decision mechanism and prove its efficiency.•We confirm the theoretical results through extensive simulation using real dataset of services on the web.

论文关键词:Agent-based services,Decision making,Game theory,Best response technique,Strategies

论文评审过程:Available online 14 February 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.02.002