A Taxonomy of Incentive Patterns – The Design Space of Incentives for Cooperation

@INPROCEEDINGS{ON03,
  author = {Philipp Obreiter and Jens Nimis},
  year = 2003,
  title = {A Taxonomy of Incentive Patterns - The Design Space of Incentives
          for Cooperation},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Agents and
              Peer-to-Peer Computing {(AP2PC'03)}, Springer {LNCS} 2872},
  address = {Melbourne, Australia},
  abstract = {Peer-to-peer systems, multi-agent systems, and ad hoc networks
             aim at exploiting synergies that result from cooperation. Yet,
             these systems are composed of autonomous entities that are free
             to decide whether to cooperate or not. Hence, incentives are
             indispensable to induce cooperation between autonomous entities.
             In this paper, we introduce incentive patterns as a means of
             systematically conceiving incentive schemes with respect to the
             specifics of the application environment. Based on economic
             incentive patterns, we derive several incentive patterns and
             discuss them with respect to a set of general characteristics.
             Consequently, we propose a taxonomy that classifies the derived
             incentive patterns.}
}