Using Incentive Mechanisms for an Adaptive Regulation of Open Multi-Agent Systems

Centeno, Roberto; Billhardt, Holger

doi:10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-035

Using Incentive Mechanisms for an Adaptive Regulation of Open Multi-Agent Systems

Roberto Centeno, Holger Billhardt

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Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pages 139-144.

https://doi.org/10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-035

Abstract

In this paper we propose a mechanism that encourages agents, participating in an open MAS, to follow a desirable behaviour, by introducing modifications in the environment. This mechanism is deployed by using an infrastructure based on institutional agents called incentivators. Each external agent is assigned to an incentivator that is able to discover its preferences, and to learn the suitable modifications in the environment, in order to improve the global utility of a system in response to inadequate design or changes in the population of participating agents. The mechanism is evaluated in a p2p scenario.

Roberto Centeno, and Holger Billhardt. 2011. Using Incentive Mechanisms for an Adaptive Regulation of Open Multi-Agent Systems. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-11. IJCAI, 139–144. https://doi.org/10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-035

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