Mechanism Design for Airport Traffic Planning

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Mechanism Design for Airport Traffic Planning

• Geert Jonker, John-Jules Meyer, Frank Dignum
• Utrecht University

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Airport Traffic Plan Repair
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Properties

• Incentive-compatibility motivate agents to be
  honest.
• Clark Tax pay if you change the outcome.
• Efficient and incentive-compatible.
• Fairness remember histories.

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Pay-off

accounts solution 1 vs.
solution 2
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Summary

• Need for efficient, fair and incentive compatible
  resource allocation mechanism.
• Conjecture fairness and incentive compatibility
  are incompatible.

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Issues

• Is it fair to make agents express their utility
  in money?
• Do agents know their utility?
• How should we measure fairness?