Creation of information profiles in distributed databases as a n-person game

Abstract

It is considered a problem of forming information profiles of distributed data- and/or knowledge bases as a result of satisfying the requirements representing the information profiles of the customers. It is shown that the interests of data- and knowledge bases managers are not fully convergent and that they participate in a composite, partially co-operative, partially non-cooperative game. There is given a formal description of the strategies used in this game, as well as the methods of decision making of the players. © Springer-Verlag 2004.