Imperfect norm enforcement in stochastic environments: an analysis of efficiency and cost tradeoffs

Moser Silva Fagundes, Felipe Meneguzzi, Sacha Ossowski

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Artificial Intelligence - IBERAMIA 2014
Subtitle of host publicationIbero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence
PublisherSpringer
Pages523-535
Number of pages13
Volume8864
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Nov 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science

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