Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Incentive Mechanisms"”.
-
Study on incentive mechanisms of smes crowdsourcing contest innovation.
… to better understand the main motivational incentives to obtain maximum productivity of a team with limited project management resources. In pursuit of this, the social exchange theory is challenged, this thesis explores the motivation factors that influence solvers to participate in SMEs …
-
Incentive mechanism design for mobile crowd sensing systems
… in this thesis, I present a series of novel incentive mechanisms, which can be utilized to effectively incentivize worker participation in MCS systems. The proposed mechanisms not only incorporate workers' quality of information in order to selectively recruit relatively more reliable workers …
-
Market incentives for pandemic influenza vaccines
… austerity, however, industry lacks clear incentives to invest in vaccines for other high-risk strains. The cyclic nature of pandemics also means we can expect another influenza pandemic within the next 20 years. In this environment, design of incentive mechanisms for funding development of …
-
Reputation in Multi Agent Systems and the Incentives to Provide Feedback
… agents to negotiate and execute transactions, mechanisms that lead to favorable outcomes for all parties instead of giving rise to defective behavior are necessary to make the system work: trust and reputation mechanisms. This paper examines different incentive mechanisms helping these trust …
-
Incentive Mechanism Design for Systems with Many Agents: A Multiscale Decision Theory Approach
Incentives are an effective mechanism to align the interests of decision-makers. For example, employers use incentives to motivate their employees to take actions that benefit both the employers and the employees. Incentives also play a role in the interaction between firms, for example in a supply …
-
Simulation and verification of autonomous route planning behavior
… a platform for experimentation with various incentive mechanisms and information dissemination protocols that are critical for emergency planning during disruptions.
-
Incentive mechanism design in blockchain-based federated learning over edge clouds
… blockchain-enabled FL relies heavily on robust incentive mechanisms that can motivate contributions to both model training and the blockchain consensus process. This dissertation investigates and designs comprehensive, game-theoretic incentive mechanisms for blockchain-enabled federated edge …
-
Principal-agent alignment and relational incentive contracts in high-performance service operations
… in game theory, relational contracts, and incentive mechanism design that impact service quality in the modern organization. The framework introduced in this thesis is comprised of four distinct steps. In the first step, service quality is quantitatively measured and drivers of service …
-
Mechanism Design Theory for Service Contracts
… terms - such as price, service features and incentives - that maximize the provider's profit, satisfy customer needs, allocate risks effectively and mitigate moral hazards. Optimal contract design has to account for asymmetric information and uncertainties associated with customer …
-
Agents to assist in finding help
… user's problem while providing a community-based incentive mechanism. We present alternative profiling and incentive mechanisms to those that had been presented in previous work. We chose the Java Programming domain for our initial implementation and testing of the system. Expert Finder uses each …
-
Regulatory benchmarking by machine learning: The case of climate resilience in electric utilities
… to fill this regulatory gap through performance incentive mechanisms and elaborate on the political-economic implications, both advantages and potential pitfalls, of its application. With these theoretical understandings, we experiment with benchmarking weatherrelated power outages in New …
-
The discontent of social scoring through state surveillance using the Chinese social credit system as a case study
… and integrated social credit systems that use incentive mechanisms to alter behaviour. The potential harms of a social credit system to citizens are vast. Concerns about individual privacy and the abuse of power are valid; however, the unfair treatment of minorities and the oppression of …
-
Sharing economy-based on-demand peer-to-peer tutoring and resource sharing
… can also help us understand how different incentive mechanisms motivate people to share knowledge: Are people motivated by social reputation or money? We develop an Android application called ""Quet"" which can be used by students to request help from their peers for questions related to …
-
A consumer assessment of household attitudes, awareness, drivers and likelihood of installing solar water heaters under a monthly payment scheme in Cape Town, South Africa
This paper reviews how incentive mechanisms impact solar water heater (SWH) technology adoption under both monthly payment scheme (MPS) and non-monthly payment scheme (non-MPS) conditions. The key research problem is to try understand why consumers1 have not installed SWHs under non-MPS conditions …
-
Local content requirements and industrial development : economic analysis and cost modeling of the automotive supply chain
… the use of subsidies and requirements as incentive mechanisms to align firm decisions with government objectives. A case study of the automotive industry, where content restriction policies are extremely active, is used to demonstrate the applicability of the model. This entailed the …
-
Targeted Priority Mechanisms in Organ Transplantation
… necessitates innovative allocation mechanisms. This dissertation develops and analyzes targeted priority mechanisms, voluntary incentive-based programs designed to enhance access for disadvantaged patient groups and improve organ-recipient matching. Using a rigorous …
-
Regulation of Quality of Service in Electricity Distribution Networks
It has been commonly recognised that incentive regulation provides strong incentives for cost reduction. However, the incentives for cost reduction may lead to degradation of service quality. Quality of service is becoming regulated; service quality incentive schemes, service quality targets, …
-
Sharia-based securities crowdfunding for environmental sustainability goals : practitioners’ perceptions, platform initiatives, and institutional performances
… in institutionalized criteria or structured mechanisms for environmental-related sustainability project evaluation. While one platform has taken proactive steps—such as implementing a ‘green label’ to mark SDG-aligned offerings—others have not yet adopted similar mechanisms. Collaborations …
-
A study of adaptive protection methods for future electricity distribution systems
… climate change. Government targets and financial incentive mechanisms have created a generation portfolio that is becoming more diverse as both large and small-scale distributed generation projects are commissioned. The net result of these events is that generation now appears across all voltage …
-
Analysis and design of blockchain systems
… blockchains and designing new algorithms and incentive mechanisms to enhance their performance and security. Central to the design of these protocols is the need to characterize and incentivize rational behavior, as cryptocurrencies depend on it to function. Understanding how participants, …
Page 1 of 2