Mechanism Design for Airport Traffic Planning Geert Jonker, John-Jules Meyer, Frank Dignum Utrecht University.

Mechanism Design for Airport Traffic Planning

Geert Jonker, John-Jules Meyer, Frank Dignum

Utrecht University

Airport Traffic Plan Repair

Properties

• Incentive-compatibility: motivate agents to be honest.

•Clark Tax: pay if you change the outcome.

•Efficient and incentive-compatible.•Fairness: remember histories.

Pay-off

accounts

solution 1 vs. solution 2

Summary

•Need for efficient, fair and incentive compatible resource allocation mechanism.

•Conjecture: fairness and incentive compatibility are incompatible.

Issues

• Is it fair to make agents express their utility in money?

•Do agents know their utility?•How should we measure fairness?