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Negotiating Socially Optimal Allocations of Resources
2006
The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
A multiagent system may be thought of as an artificial society of autonomous software agents and we can apply concepts borrowed from welfare economics and social choice theory to assess the social welfare of such an agent society. In this paper, we study an abstract negotiation framework where agents can agree on multilateral deals to exchange bundles of indivisible resources. We then analyse how these deals affect social welfare for different instances of the basic framework and different
doi:10.1613/jair.1870
fatcat:2griiceidfcczcdqikctrfbfoe