This paper discusses our investigation into the evolution of cooperative players in an online business environment. We explain
our design of an incentive based system with its foundation over binary reputation system whose proportion of reward or punishment
is a function of transaction value and the player’s past history of cooperation. We compare the evolution of cooperation in
our setting with non-incentive based environment and our findings show that the incentive based method is more suitable for
the evolution of trustworthy players.
Keywords Evolution of Cooperation - Online Markets - Reputation systems - Trust