On Helping Behavior in Cooperative Environments

نویسندگان

  • Paola Rizzo
  • Amedeo Cesta
  • Maria Miceli
چکیده

This paper concerns the helping behavior in multi-agent systems. Helping actions represent an interesting and rich testbed for examining the reasons for cooperative behavior in multiagent systems. Starting from previous studies on multi-agent dependence relations, a basic definition of help is given, and some of the motivations for helping are briefly discussed. Moreover, an experimental environment for simulating agents that can perform helping behavior is described, and some preliminary results are presented. Résumé Ce travail concerne le comportement d'aide dans les systèmes multi-agents. Les actions d'aide représentent un testbed intéressant pour examiner les raisons des comportements coopératifs dans les systèmes multi-agents. En partant d'études précédents sur les relations de dépendance multi-agents, on donne une définition de base de l'aide, et on discute brièvement de quelques motivations pour aider. On décrit en suite un environnement expérimental employé pour simuler des agents qui peuvent s'aider, et on présente des résultats préliminaires.

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تاریخ انتشار 1995