Sentence examples for incentive to defect from inspiring English sources

D EV is defined in a similar way to D EVB, using the adjacency matrix of G without computing edge betweeness, and as visible in Figure 4, D EV predicts that actor 10 would have the highest incentive to defect while D EVB predicts actor 9 for defection (as indeed took place).

If loyal cadres feel they could be next, at any time and for no reason, that undermines loyalty and could even be an incentive to defect.

It would form a team mostly of Eritrean athletes who lived abroad and held dual nationality, and therefore had no incentive to defect.

With the limited information provided by many reputation systems, a peer has incentive to defect on a large fraction of its transactions.

Each member of a horizontal price-fixing agreement has a strong incentive to defect, secretly offering lower prices to attract a greater share of customers.

(Imagine the related scenario of a two-round prisoner's dilemma: both players know the other has an incentive to defect in the second round, so the signalling effect of the first round would be near zero).

A leading Arab-language newspaper in London, Al Sharq Al Awsat, reported in December that based on "Iraqi sources" and charges by Iraqi diplomats, it was apparent that at least three top Iraqi weapons experts had been "subjected to pressures and offered financial incentives" to defect or cooperate with American intelligence officials.

At the cottage, Rhodes offered Maund financial and professional incentives to defect from the London syndicate.

In turn, this might create incentives to defect at the highest level, when the stakes have become large.

Beyond these self-interested incentives to defect, policymakers expressed greater concern that solidarity in negotiations would break down as a result of institutional and political barriers.

Typically, this class of games consider a principal that contracts another party (agent) to perform some action; since the action is costly to the agent and his decision is costly to observe the agreement gives the agent the incentive to defects.