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This paper discusses how incentives allow social networks to attract more members and reward those that are honest by retaining them. These members referred to as social Web services process users’ requests in return for a certain usage fee and also expose certain behaviors in return of the incentives they receive. The usage fee is linked to a performance level that the social Web service needs to maintain at run time. In the case of any discrepancy between the usage fee and performance level the social Web service is expected to compensate users. However the compensation might not always take place. Simulation results illustrate why honesty is rewarding for social Web services, which has a positive impact on both their performance and the performance of the networks to which they belong.
Composition (aka composite Web service) means putting Web services together in response to users’ complex needs.
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The usage-fee structure is similar to the practices in the airline industry where three fares on a flight are suggested: first, business, and economy. These fares can even differ in the same travel class.
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Maamar, Z., Costantino, G., Petrocchi, M., Martinelli, F. (2015). Using Incentives to Analyze Social Web Services’ Behaviors. In: Benatallah, B., et al. Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2014 Workshops. WISE 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9051. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20370-6_12
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