Title
Reasoning about norms under uncertainty in dynamic environments.
Abstract
The behaviour of norm-autonomous agents is determined by their goals and the norms that are explicitly represented inside their minds. Thus, they require mechanisms for acquiring and accepting norms, determining when norms are relevant to their case, and making decisions about norm compliance. Up until now the existing proposals on norm-autonomous agents assume that agents interact within a deterministic environment that is certainly perceived. In practise, agents interact by means of sensors and actuators under uncertainty with non-deterministic and dynamic environments. Therefore, the existing proposals are unsuitable or, even, useless to be applied when agents have a physical presence in some real-world environment. In response to this problem we have developed the n-BDI architecture. In this paper, we propose a multi-context graded BDI architecture (called n-BDI) that models norm-autonomous agents able to deal with uncertainty in dynamic environments. The n-BDI architecture has been experimentally evaluated and the results are shown in this paper.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.ijar.2014.02.004
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Keywords
Field
DocType
Norms,Uncertainty,Graded BDI agents
Normative systems,Architecture,Norm (social),Artificial intelligence,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
55
9
0888-613X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.46
30
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Natalia Criado117913.48
Estefania Argente230921.40
Pablo Noriega373174.29
Vicente J. Botti460863.78