Paper Info
Title
Imperfect Norm Enforcement in Stochastic Environments: An Analysis of Efficiency and Cost Tradeoffs.
Abstract
In heterogeneous multiagent systems, agents might interfere with each other either intentionally or unintentionally, as a side-effect of their activities. One approach to coordinating these agents is to restrict their activities by means of social norms whose compliance ensures certain system properties, or otherwise results in sanctions to violating agents. While most research on normative systems assumes a deterministic environment and norm enforcement mechanism, we formalize a normative system within an environment whereby agent actions have stochastic outcomes and norm enforcement follows a stochastic model in which stricter enforcement entails higher cost. Within this type of system, we analyze the tradeoff between norm enforcement efficiency (measured in number of norm violations) and its cost considering a population of norm-aware self-interested agents capable of building plans to maximize their expected utilities. Finally, we validate our analysis empirically through simulations in a representative scenario.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-12027-0_42
ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (IBERAMIA 2014)
Keywords
Field
DocType
NMDP,MDP,Stochastic,Norm,Enforcement
Population,Sanctions,Mathematical optimization,Normative,Computer science,Operations research,Norm (social),Multi-agent system,Enforcement,Stochastic modelling,restrict
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8864
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Moser Silva Fagundes1578.65
Sascha Ossowski21646158.02
Felipe Meneguzzi338646.80