@InProceedings{sen96a,
  author =	 {Sandip Sen},
  title =	 {Reciprocity: a foundational principle for promoting
                  cooperative behavior among self-interested agents},
  googleid =	 {qnZrkj9P1vYJ:scholar.google.com/},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the Second International Conference
                  on Multiagent Systems},
  pages =	 {322--329},
  year =	 1996,
  publisher =	 {AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA},
  abstract =	 {If participating agents in a multiagent system can
                  be assumed to be cooperative in nature coor dination
                  mechanisms can be used that will re alize desirable
                  system performance Such as sumptions however are
                  untenable in open sys tems Agent designers have to
                  design agents and agent environments with the
                  understanding that participating agents will act to
                  serve their self interests instead of working
                  towards group goals We investigate the choice of
                  interaction strate gies and environmental
                  characteristics that will make the best self
                  interested actions to be coop erative in nature We
                  analyze the inadequacy of traditional deterministic
                  reciprocity mechanisms to promote cooperative
                  behavior with a fair dis tribution of the workload A
                  probabilistic reci procity mechanism is introduced
                  and shown to generate stable and cooperative
                  behavior among a group of self interested agents The
                  resultant system exhibits close to optimal
                  throughput with a fair distribution of the workload
                  among the participating agents.},
  keywords =     {multiagent learning game-theory},
  url =		 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/sen96a.pdf},
  cluster = 	 {17786490912804402858}
}