Analysis of Multi-ISPs Game Based on Lotka-Volterra Model

Author

Zhou, Yaping ; Chen, Bo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei

fYear

2006

fDate

Nov. 28 2006-Dec. 1 2006

Firstpage

34

Lastpage

34

Abstract

The competition for market share among Internet service providers (ISPs) in the Internet service market is similar to the one for prey among predators in a single-prey-multi- predators biological system. Based on the classical Lotka-Volterra (LV) model, constructing a multi-ISPs game model (MIGM), studying the games among ISPs under different market environment, analyzing the stability of the equilibrium points and the influences of system parameters on the equilibria via Liapunov´s first method, and also showing some characteristics of the system through mathematical analysis and simulation.

Keywords

Internet; game theory; information industry; Internet service market; Internet service provider; Liapunov first method; Lotka-Volterra model; market share; mathematical analysis; multi-ISPs game; single-prey-multipredators biological system; system parameter; Biological system modeling; Biological systems; Economic forecasting; Environmental economics; Evolution (biology); Mathematical analysis; Mathematical model; Predictive models; Stability analysis; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, 2006 and International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce, International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2731-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIMCA.2006.44

Filename

4052681