期刊名称：Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics & Intelligent Systems (JAMRIS)
印刷版ISSN：1897-8649
电子版ISSN：2080-2145
出版年度：2006
卷号：25
页码：315-348
出版社：Industrial Research Inst. for Automation and Measurements, Warsaw
摘要：A multiagent system may be thought of as an artificial society of autonomous
software agents and we can apply concepts borrowed from welfare economics and
social choice theory to assess the social welfare of such an agent society. In
this paper, we study an abstract negotiation framework where agents can agree on
multilateral deals to exchange bundles of indivisible resources. We then analyse
how these deals affect social welfare for different instances of the basic
framework and different interpretations of the concept of social welfare itself.
In particular, we show how certain classes of deals are both sufficient and
necessary to guarantee that a socially optimal allocation of resources will be
reached eventually
