In this work we propose a theory of gossip as a means for social control. Exercising social control roughly means to isolate and to punish cheaters. However, punishment is costly and it inevitably implies the problem of second-order cooperation. Moving from a cognitive model of gossip, we report data from ethnographic studies and agent-based simulations to support our claim that gossip reduces ...

The communication power of the one-way and two-way edge-disjoint path modes for broadcast and gossip is investigated. The complexity of communication algorithms is measured by the number of communication steps (rounds). The main results achieved are the following: 1. For each connected graph G n of n nodes, the complexity of broadcast in G n , B min (G n), satisses dlog 2 ne B min (G n) dlog 2 ...

This paper proposes and investigates a framework for clique gossip protocols. As complete subnetworks, the existence of cliques is ubiquitous in various social, computer, and engineering networks. By clique gossiping, nodes interact with each other along a sequence of cliques. Clique-gossip protocols are defined as arbitrary linear node interactions where node states are vectors evolving as lin...

Empirical and theoretical evidence from various disciplines indicates that reputation, reputation building and trust are important for human cooperation, social behaviour and economic progress. Recently, it has been shown that reputation gained in games of indirect reciprocity can be transmitted by gossip. But it has also been shown that gossiping has a strong manipulative potential. We propose...

This paper continues with the study of the communication modes introduced in, University of Paderborn. (Extended abstract presented at WG'93.)] as a generalization of the standard one-way and two-way modes allowing to send messages between processors of interconnection networks via vertex-disjoint paths in one communication step. The complexity of communication algorithms is measured by the num...