Multiagent scheme for voice conference moderation

Conferencing systems utilizing text messages as the communication medium have been around for many years. Since in highly populated social platforms moderation is more of a necessity than luxury, many different mechanisms exist and function being more or less effective. As the Internet bandwidth is becoming more and more accessible, voice over IP communication is gaining on popularity. Multiuser voice conferencing platforms raise the need for different type of moderation mechanisms. Determining a fair moderation scheme which would in the same time maximize the overall discussion quality for each participant is not a trivial task. We introduce a multiagent model for voice conference moderation which utilizes Vickrey auctions as a resource allocation procedure. By applying a concept of communication channel as a resource with an equally shared ownership, we enforce that rules of a fair discussion are.