Distributed Computation as an Economic System
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14855153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernardo A Huberman (0000-0002-6783-0864, Research Fellow, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, California.), Tad Hogg (0000-0001-8452-399X, Member of the Research Staff, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, California.) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 141-152 |
| Publication date | 1995-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0895-3309 • E-ISSN: 1944-7965 |
| Publisher | American Economic Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1257/jep.9.1.141 |
| OpenAlex | W2093539841 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
As computer networks grow and blanket the planet, they become a community of concurrent processes, which, in their interactions, strategies, and lack of perfect knowledge, become analogous to human market economies. Economics may thus offer new ways of designing and understanding the behavior of distributed computer systems
Computation · Distributed computing · Economic system · Economics · Industrial organization · Auction Theory and Applications · Computer Science · Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems · Game Theory and Applications
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |