Health of Electronic Communities: An Evolutionary Game Approach

ANDREW B. WHINSTON is the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair Professor in Information Systems at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He isaprotessor in the Departments of Economics and Computer Science as well, and Fellow of the IC* Institute, Austin, and the director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce, for several years a pioneering research facility in Electronic Commerce. He received his Ph.D. in management from Carnegie Mellon University. His current reseiirch spans various realms of electronic commerce, its eftect on business protocols and processes, organizational structure and corporate networivs. electronic publishing, electronic education, complementarity of convergent computational paradigms, and business value of IT. He Is the coauthor of several books on electronic commerce, projnincnt among them being the Frontiers of Electronic Commerce, Economics of Electronic Commerce, and Electronic Commerce—A Manager's Guide. He has also published over 300 papers in leading academic journals in economics, business, and computer science.