Title :
A Structural Fairness Based on Game and Its Application to Analysis of Electronic Commerce Protocols
Author :
Zhang, Ling ; Yin, Jianping ; Li, Mengjun
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput., National Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha
Abstract :
A structural fairness of electronic commerce protocols is presented. A game-based model of electronic commerce systems is built. And in the model a formalization of fairness is given. They are exactly used to analyze fairness of electronic commerce protocols. Compared with the previous work, the main contributions are the following. Firstly, a strategic game is used to model channels in various qualities and participants´ dishonest behavior enables us to analyze cooperative and adversarial behaviors. Secondly, balance payoff considers both participants´ income and expense but the previous one only considers participants´ income. Thirdly, abortive fairness is defined because of honest participant´s quitting voluntarily or aborting the protocol in response to system failures. These two help us to avoid the confusion that a system satisfies fairness definition but is not fair to some participant factually
Keywords :
distributed algorithms; electronic commerce; game theory; protocols; abortive fairness; balance payoff; distributed algorithm; electronic commerce protocol; game-based model; strategic game; structural fairness; Algorithm design and analysis; Application software; Communication networks; Distributed algorithms; Electronic commerce; Games; Logic; Protocols; Safety;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Intelligence and Security, 2006 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0605-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0605-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICCIAS.2006.294268