Editors:
- Covers the theory, applications, and ethical aspects of co-utility
- Includes distributed reputation systems over the Internet, privacy in the information society, the collaborative economy, environmental economy, and smart mobility
- Introduces co-utility as the rational cooperation among rational agents that are part of distributed systems, and who are involved in games where the best strategy for each agent is to help another agent achieve his or her best outcome
- Evolved from presentations at the 1st Co-Utility Workshop, held in Tarragona, Spain, on March 10–11, 2016
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control (SSDC, volume 110)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Applications of Co-utility
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Front Matter
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About this book
How can we guarantee that a global society without a common legal framework operates smoothly? If generosity, honesty and helpfulness do not arise spontaneously, one approach would be to design transactions so that helping others remains the best rational option.
This is precisely the goal of co-utility, which can be defined in game-theoretic terms as any interaction between peers in which the best option for a player to maximize her or his utility is to make sure the other players also enjoy a fair share of utility (for example, functionality, security or privacy).
Therefore, a protocol or mechanism designed using the co-utility principle ensures that helping others is the best rational option, even if players are selfish.
Editors and Affiliations
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UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
Josep Domingo-Ferrer, David Sánchez
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Co-utility
Book Subtitle: Theory and Applications
Editors: Josep Domingo-Ferrer, David Sánchez
Series Title: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60234-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60233-2Published: 18 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86813-4Published: 02 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60234-9Published: 06 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2198-4182
Series E-ISSN: 2198-4190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 216
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computational Intelligence, Game Theory