Topic maps don’t require collaboration to be authored or maintained but unless your client has an unlimited budget, collaboration is one way to extend the reach and utility of your topic map.
The question is how to engender cooperation in an environment populated by selfish users? (US intelligence services being a good example.)
I ran across a grant summary by Jared Saia of the University of New Mexico:
Beyond Tit-for-Tat: New Techniques for Collaboration in Network Security Games
which reads in part:
Motivation and Problem: How can we ensure collaboration on the Internet, where populations are highly fluctuating, selfish, and unpredictable? We propose a new algorithmic technique for enabling collaboration in network security games. Our technique, Secure Multiparty Mediation (SMM), improves on past approaches such as tit-for-tat in the following ways: (1) it works even in single round games; (2) it works even when the actions of players are never revealed; (3) it works even in the presence of churn, i.e. players joining and leaving the game.
It impressed the NSF: Award Abstract #1017509.
Then I found:
Scalable Mechanisms for Rational Secret Sharing.
You probably want to watch Jared Saia’s homepage and publications.
An attempt to create a solution that doesn’t involve changing human nature. The latter being remarkably resistant to change. Just ask the Catholic Church.
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