Agents Enacting Social Roles. Balancing Formal Structure and Practical Rationality in MAS Design

Agents Enacting Social Roles . Balancing Formal Structure

Bounded practical social reasoning in the ESB framework

Reasoning about others, as performed by agents in order to coordinate their behaviours with those of others, commonly involves forming and updating beliefs about hidden system properties such as other agents’ mental states. In this paper we introduce the Expectation-Strategy-Behaviour (ESB) framework which provides a generic machinery for such practical social reasoning and can be easily couple...

On learning intentionally

Any attempt to include learning competences in agent technologies, involves the problem of integrating such competences in the rationality of the agents. This work discusses the design of learning intentional agents in a multiagent system (MAS). Learning intentionally means that these agents learn to adopt their intentions under practical reasoning considerations, specified in terms of Beliefs,...

ROLES IN MAS Managing the Complexity of Tasks and Environments

Roles have been used both as an intuitive concept in order to analyze multi-agent systems and model inter-agent social activity as well as a formal structure in order to implement coherent and robust teams. The extensive use of roles in implemented systems evidences their importance in multi-agent systems design and implementation. In this paper we emphasize the importance of roles for multi-ag...

An Adaptive Organizational Policy for Multi Agent Systems - AASMAN

Several formalisms for implementing organizational policies that assign specij2 roles to agents in a MAS have been proposed like the contract net protocol (CNP), the social reasoning mechanism (SRIM), and the distributed computational economy (DCE). Organization self design (OSD) had been proposed to achieve load balancing in a distributed environment. In this paper we propose an adaptive organ...