7 papers
Dynamic Resource Allocation with Karma: An Experimental Study
Ezzat Elokda, Saverio Bolognani, Florian Dörfler +1
We perform a behavioral experiment of karma, a class of mechanisms for repeated resource allocation with attractive fairness and efficiency properties, in theory. Individuals in th…
Sustainable Heating with Karma: A Simulation Study of the KTH Live-In Lab
Mahsa Farjadnia, Ezzat Elokda, Angela Fontan +1
Space heating in buildings accounts for 10% of the global CO2 footprint. The widespread adoption of energy-efficient heating technology, e.g., heat pumps, could help reduce this fi…
Flexible Electric Vehicle Charging with Karma
Ezzat Elokda, Ruiting Wang, Karl H. Johansson +1
Motivated by the need to develop fair and efficient schemes to facilitate the electrification of transport, this paper proposes a non-monetary karma economy for flexible Electric V…
Welfare and Cost Aggregation for Multi-Agent Control: When to Choose Which Social Cost Function, and Why?
Ilia Shilov, Ezzat Elokda, Sophie Hall +2
Many multi-agent socio-technical systems rely on aggregating heterogeneous agents' costs into a social cost function (SCF) to coordinate resource allocation in domains like energy…
A Vision for Trustworthy, Fair, and Efficient Socio-Technical Control using Karma Economies
Ezzat Elokda, Andrea Censi, Emilio Frazzoli +2
Control systems will play a pivotal role in addressing societal-scale challenges as they drive the development of sustainable future smart cities. At the heart of these challenges…
To Spend or to Gain: Online Learning in Repeated Karma Auctions
Damien Berriaud, Ezzat Elokda, Devansh Jalota +4
Recent years have seen a surge of artificial currency-based mechanisms in contexts where monetary instruments are deemed unfair or inappropriate, e.g., in allocating food donations…