Title

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

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

European Journal of Operational Research

Abstract

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. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

First Page

821

Last Page

833

DOI

10.1016/j.ejor.2008.01.021

Publication Date

5-1-2009

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