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An evolutionary game theoretic perspective on e-collaboration: The collaboration effort and media relativeness

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  • Cai, Gangshu
  • Kock, Ned

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Studies of e-collaboration from a game-theoretical perspective are practically nonexistent. This article contributes to filling this gap by focusing on the strategic interaction between players as they decide whether and how much to collaborate with each other. We use evolutionary game theory to make predictions about a two-person e-collaboration game. More specifically, we extend the traditional Prisoners' Dilemma and Snowdrift game theory notions to discrete-strategy e-collaboration games, by explicitly including social punishments into the players' payoff functions. We also introduce continuous-strategy e-collaboration games with both complete and incomplete information. Finally, we provide two generic dynamic programming models for e-collaboration games with media selection.

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  • Cai, Gangshu & Kock, Ned, 2009. "An evolutionary game theoretic perspective on e-collaboration: The collaboration effort and media relativeness," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 194(3), pages 821-833, May.
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