Reciprocity: A foundational principle for promoting cooperative behavior among self-interested agents

by: Sandip Sen

edited by: Victor Lesser

(1996), pp. 322-329.

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Abstract

If participating agents in a multiagent system can be assumed to be cooperative in nature, coordination mechanisms can be used that will realize desirable system performance. Such assumptions, however, are untenable in open systems. Agent designers have to design agents and agent environments with the understanding that participating agents will act to serve their selfinterests instead of working towards group goals. We investigate the choice of interaction strategies and environmental...

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