Achieving Cooperation among Selfish Agents in the Air Traffic
Management Domain using Signed Money Geert Jonker Dep. of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University Frank Dignum Dep. of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University John-Jules Meyer Dep. of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University ABSTRACT

We present a monetary system by which selfish agents can cooperate reciprocally. We show that a straight-forward market mechanism can lead to unfair situations when agents misuse key positions. We show that it is not easy to retaliate wrongdoers, as there is a dominant strategy that deviates from the retaliating strategy. We present a monetary system in which every user can issue money and every user is required to sign each credit it issues or circulates. By using a trust-based credit-valuation function, wrongdoers are retaliated and it is no longer dominant to deviate from the retaliating strategy.

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