La maximisation du bien-être utilitaire des sociétés d'agents

In this study, we consider the resource allocation problem within an entity set. Centralized approaches that are often used to solve such allocation problems have several important drawbacks. For instance, they require that the entities publish their own preferences, which compromise the privacy of these data. At the opposite, the provided decentralized appraoch is more flexible. This approach, which is based on negotiations among agents, can be applied with any kind of contact network and any range for the utility values. For this purpose, we study various agent behaviors in order to identify which one leads to the optimal resource allocation required, thanks to an emergent phenomenon.