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Efficient Working and Shirking in Information Sharing Networks
2015
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
In many systems, agents interact repeatedly with each other over an exogenously determined network and need to cooperate with each other by producing and sharing valuable knowledge or information with the agents with which they are connected. However, producing and sharing information can be costly for the agents themselves, while providing no direct immediate benefit to them. Hence, there are incentives for individual agents to shirk rather than to work -to free ride on the information
doi:10.1109/jsac.2015.2393432
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