Research Trends: Interested Parties

Decentralizing Aid with Interested Parties

This paper analyzes the decentralization of decision-making in aid-giving in a theoretical rent-seeking framework. In this analysis the root donor establishes a necessary criterion for potential recipients: good governance. The potential recipients compete in hierarchal contests for funds. The paper investigates whether, under certain reasonable conditions, fashionable aid procedures will lead ...

Idiosyncratic deals: coworkers as interested third parties.

Idiosyncratic deals (i-deals for short) are personalized employment arrangements negotiated between individual workers and employers and intended to benefit them both (D. M. Rousseau, 2005). Coworkers' acceptance of another's i-deal can ultimately impact its overall effectiveness for the organization. By using a network approach to the study of work group dynamics, this research addresses the c...

Strategyproof Computing: Systems Infrastructures for Self- Interested Parties

The widespread deployment of high-speed internet access is ushering in a new era of distributed computing, in which parties both contribute to a global pool of shared resources and access the pooled resources to support their own computing needs. We argue that system designers must explicitly address the self-interest of individual parties if these next-generation computing systems are to flour...

Priority Forwarding in Ad Hoc Networks with Self-Interested Parties

This paper examines the problem of incentivizing autonomous, self-interested nodes in an ad hoc network to cooperate in forwarding packets between non-adjacent nodes. We argue that assumptions about the homogeneity of nodes or their preferences are antithetical to the design philosophy of ad hoc networks. Instead, we postulate that a layered design consisting of policed but unpriced best-effort...

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