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2004-12-14
Dissertation Direction
While I have submitted a thesis title, I still have no idea on what exactly I would be doing. Not even the big direction. The only certain thing is that it would be related to p2p systems and incentives. The way I see it, there are four different possible directions:
- Pure economic, game-theoretic type of analysis. Pro: Would look nice as "serious" work. Con: Probably I won't be able to get the happy bit from the economist to graduate in 1.5 years.
- Use economic analysis as foundations and prove properties similar to competitive analysis in theoretical computer science. An example here (pdf). Pro: Just need basic economics knowledge and I'm more familiar with these proofs. Con: My boss might not like this type of work.
- Modifying existing p2p applications to provide incentives. Pro: That's what I've been doing. Con: Seems not as stringent and convincing, particularly when my future job is counting on it.
- Design and implement a new p2p application with nice incentives properties. Pro: Could potentially look like a cool, new system, and my boss always wants me to do more implementations. Con: I don't feel like to...
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Here's a question. Shouldn't you be worrying about this about six months before your proposed date of graduation??:)
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