Even up: Maintaining relationships

Even up: Maintaining relationships

When are economic interactions mediated by prices and transfers, and when are they mediated by variations in the continuation payoffs within a relationship? To address this question, we examine a relationship between two players who periodically face opportunities to undertake randomly generated “projects” that impose a cost on one player and a benefit on the other, as well as opportunities to ...

Distance education: strategies for maintaining relationships.

Experience with Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in the Bachelor of Applied Health Science (BAppHSc) course suggests that one of the key elements for students is the sense of relationship built up through Problem Based Learning (PBL). Failure to retain students is more likely to be related to personal than academic concerns. The low attrition rate is largely attributed ...

XDependency: maintaining relationships between XML data resources

This paper proposes an XDependency description model and language that can be used as part of a distributed integrity control system for XML data resources. The dependency description language allows relationships to be specified between XML data available from different organizations. The paper also includes a prototype agent-based system capable of enforcing distributed dependency relationshi...

Establishing and maintaining boundaries in teacher-student relationships.

Maintaining Trust Relationships between Peer – To – Peer Systems

Maintaining trust among peer-to-peer systems is a problem, Open nature of peer-to-peer systems exposes them to malicious activity. Building trust relationships among peers can mitigate attacks of malicious peers. This paper presents an automated trust model which takes into consideration peers past interaction and recommendations to choose trustworthy peer. While evaluating trustworthiness para...