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Mechanisms to Restrict Exploitation and Improve Societal Performance in Multi-Agent Systems

Mechanisms to Restrict Exploitation and Improve Societal Performance in Multi-Agent Systems

Sharmila Savarimuthu, Martin Purvis, Maryam Purvis, Mariusz Nowostawski
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781599045764|ISBN10: 1599045761|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616925574|EISBN13: 9781599045788
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-576-4.ch011
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Savarimuthu, Sharmila, et al. "Mechanisms to Restrict Exploitation and Improve Societal Performance in Multi-Agent Systems." Intelligence Integration in Distributed Knowledge Management, edited by Dariusz Król and Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 182-194. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-576-4.ch011

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Savarimuthu, S., Purvis, M., Purvis, M., & Nowostawski, M. (2009). Mechanisms to Restrict Exploitation and Improve Societal Performance in Multi-Agent Systems. In D. Król & N. Nguyen (Eds.), Intelligence Integration in Distributed Knowledge Management (pp. 182-194). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-576-4.ch011

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Savarimuthu, Sharmila, et al. "Mechanisms to Restrict Exploitation and Improve Societal Performance in Multi-Agent Systems." In Intelligence Integration in Distributed Knowledge Management, edited by Dariusz Król and Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, 182-194. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-576-4.ch011

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Abstract

Societies are made of different kinds of agents, some cooperative and uncooperative. Uncooperative agents tend to reduce the overall performance of the society, due to exploitation practices. In the real world, it is not possible to decimate all the uncooperative agents; thus the objective of this research is to design and implement mechanisms that will improve the overall benefit of the society without excluding uncooperative agents. The mechanisms that we have designed include referrals and resource restrictions. A referral scheme is used to identify and distinguish noncooperators and cooperators. Resource restriction mechanisms are used to restrict noncooperators from selfish resource utilization. Experimental results are presented describing how these mechanisms operate.

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