Can You Do Me A Favor?
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Multiagent systems often require coordination among the agents to maximize system utility. Using the notion of favors, we propose a technique, flexible reciprocal altruism, which determines when one agent should grant a favor to another agent based on past interactions. The desired rate of altruism is controllable, and as a result the loss associated with granting unmatched favors is bounded and amortized over all past interactions. In flexible reciprocal altruism the desired acceptable loss is independent of the cost and value of the favors. Experiments show that our technique performs well with different cost/value tradeoffs, numbers of agents, and load.
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