Norm Emergence in Multi-Agent Systems Based on Social Interactions

摘要

Norms establish many aspects of human behavior. While most of them are considered to be optional, some are used to create laws that govern our lives. In multi-agent systems (MAS), norms are very useful in establishing and sustaining a social order for the general behavior of the agents, while increasing cooperation and coordination, and reducing computational efforts by shifting from a centralized, top-down architecture, to an agent-based, bottom-up design. This paper presents several norm spreading and emergence mechanisms implemented and tested with a socially interactive game environment to demonstrate their capabilities. Also, normative strategy and underlying social network topology influences are studied in a series of experiments.