Karma

Meet the Self-contained Karma Economy!

"Today me, tomorrow thee!"

Loosely inspired by karma in Indian tradition, we have worked towards formalizing the notion of "give-and-take" in automated resource allocation systems. One day you incur a delay in traffic to let someone with higher urgency arrive on time, for that you gain karma. The next day it becomes your turn to take advantage of fast service , so you spend karma. Such a system gives fair access to shared resources meanwhile serving those who are most in need.

Publication - Slides - Blog Post

Applications

Transportation

CARMA: Fair and Efficient Bottleneck Congestion Management via Non-tradable Karma Credits

Ezzat Elokda, Carlo Cenedese, Kenan Zhang, Andrea Censi, John Lygeros, Emilio Frazzoli, Florian Dörfler

Transportation Science, 2024

10.1287/TRSC.2023.0323 - Slides

A Dynamic Population Game Model of Non-Monetary Bottleneck Congestion Management Under Elastic Demand Using Karma

Ezzat Elokda, Carlo Cenedese, Kenan Zhang, Andrea Censi, Saverio Bolognani, Emilio Frazzoli

CDC, 2023

10.1109/CDC49753.2023.10383388 - Preprint - Slides

Energy

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CO2 Emissions

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Data Networks

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Crypto-governance

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Behavioral Insights

Karma: An Experimental Study

Ezzat Elokda, Heinrcih Nax, Saverio Bolognani, Florian Dörfler

Matching in Practice Workshop, 2024

Preprint - Slides

Meet the Karma Collaborators!

First Paper: Today Me, Tomorrow Thee: Efficient Resource Allocation in Competitive Settings using Karma Games

Andrea Censi, Saverio Bolognani, Julian G. Zilly, Shima S. Mousavi, Emilio Frazzoli

IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2019

10.1109/ITSC.2019.8916911 - Preprint

Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control

ETH Zurich

acensi@ethz.ch

Automatic Control Laboratory

ETH Zurich

bsaverio@ethz.ch

Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control

ETH Zurich

efrazzoli@ethz.ch

Automatic Control Laboratory

ETH Zurich

floriand@ethz.ch

Automatic Control Laboratory

ETH Zurich

ccenedese@ethz.ch

Laboratory for Human-Oriented Mobility Eco-System

EPFL

kenan.zhang@epfl.ch

Department of Sociology

University of Zurich

nax@soziologie.uzh.ch