Detection and resolution of normative conflicts in multi-agent systems: a literature survey

Santos, Jéssica Soares dos; Zahn, Jean; Silvestre, Eduardo Augusto; Silva, Viviane T.; Vasconcelos, Wamberto

doi:10.1007/s10458-017-9362-z

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“…Goal conflict is treated in the literature (Murukannaiah, Kalia, Telang, & Singh, 2015;Thangarajah & Padgham, 2011;Zatelli, Hübner, Ricci, & Bordini, 2016). Research is needed to formalize definitions of commitment conflict, goal conflict, commitment-goal conflict, and to theoretically capture what forms of (commitment) conflicts are mitigated by a system of agents following our semantics for commitment-goal alignment, and further to thoroughly study the topic of commitment conflicts in light of the literature on normative conflicts (Broersen et al, 2001;Castelfranchi, 2000;Chopra & Singh, 2015b;dos Santos, de Oliveira Zahn, Silvestre, da Silva, & Vasconcelos, 2017;Lee et al, 2014).…”

Section: Commitment Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Coupled Operational Semantics for Goals and Commitments

Telang

Singh²,

Yorke-Smith³

2019

jair

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Commitments capture how an agent relates to another agent, whereas goals describe states of the world that an agent is motivated to bring about. Commitments are elements of the social state of a set of agents whereas goals are elements of the private states of individual agents. It makes intuitive sense that goals and commitments are understood as being complementary to each other. More importantly, an agent's goals and commitments ought to be coherent, in the sense that an agent's goals would lead it to adopt or modify relevant commitments and an agent's commitments would lead it to adopt or modify relevant goals. However, despite the intuitive naturalness of the above connections, they have not been adequately studied in a formal framework. This article provides a combined operational semantics for goals and commitments by relating their respective life cycles as a basis for how these concepts (1) cohere for an individual agent and (2) engender cooperation among agents. Our semantics yields important desirable properties of convergence of the configurations of cooperating agents, thereby delineating some theoretically well-founded yet practical modes of cooperation in a multiagent system.

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Section: Commitment Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Coupled Operational Semantics for Goals and Commitments

Telang

Singh²,

Yorke-Smith³

2019

jair

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“…The problem is to make the MAS determine what deviant behavior is, detect it, and take corresponding countermeasures. Norms may be determined collectively, through processes of agreement or conflict resolution [69]. However, few results are available on conflicts among multiple norms and steering of their emergent effects at the collective level [69].…”

Section: Norms and Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Programming Approach to Collective Autonomy

Casadei

Aguzzi

Viroli

2021

JSAN

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Research and technology developments on autonomous agents and autonomic computing promote a vision of artificial systems that are able to resiliently manage themselves and autonomously deal with issues at runtime in dynamic environments. Indeed, autonomy can be leveraged to unburden humans from mundane tasks (cf. driving and autonomous vehicles), from the risk of operating in unknown or perilous environments (cf. rescue scenarios), or to support timely decision-making in complex settings (cf. data-centre operations). Beyond the results that individual autonomous agents can carry out, a further opportunity lies in the collaboration of multiple agents or robots. Emerging macro-paradigms provide an approach to programming whole collectives towards global goals. Aggregate computing is one such paradigm, formally grounded in a calculus of computational fields enabling functional composition of collective behaviours that could be proved, under certain technical conditions, to be self-stabilising. In this work, we address the concept of collective autonomy, i.e., the form of autonomy that applies at the level of a group of individuals. As a contribution, we define an agent control architecture for aggregate multi-agent systems, discuss how the aggregate computing framework relates to both individual and collective autonomy, and show how it can be used to program collective autonomous behaviour. We exemplify the concepts through a simulated case study, and outline a research roadmap towards reliable aggregate autonomy.

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“…In this work, the resolution of conflicts uses dominance relations, where the satisfaction of a more dominant instance overrides the violation of a less dominant one, and the agent is still seen as compliant even though one or more instances are violated. Santos et al [85] survey several conflict resolution mechanisms proposed in the literature, some of which involve the violation of some norms to comply with others.…”

Section: Deliberate Norm Violationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Conflict resolution is a normal process during this stage. A review of conflict resolution mechanisms is discussed in detail in Santos et al [85].…”

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confidence: 99%

Norm emergence in multiagent systems: a viewpoint paper

Morris-Martin

Vos

Padget

2019

Auton Agent Multi-Agent Syst

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Norms are utilised in agent societies to encourage acceptable behaviour by the participating agents. They can be established or revised from the top-down (authority) or from the bottom-up (populace). The study of norm creation from the bottom-up-or norm emergence/convergence-shows evidence of increasing activity. In consequence, we seek to analyse and categorize the approaches proposed in the literature for facilitating norm emergence. This paper makes three contributions to the study of norm emergence. Firstly, we present the different perspectives of norms and their impact on the norm emergence process, with the aim of comparing their similarities and differences in implementing the norm life cycle. Secondly, we identify the characteristics that support norm emergence that are observed in the emergence literature. Finally, we identify and propose future topics for study for the community, through a discussion of the challenges and opportunities in norm emergence.

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Detection and resolution of normative conflicts in multi-agent systems: a literature survey

Cited by 22 publications

References 46 publications

A Coupled Operational Semantics for Goals and Commitments

A Coupled Operational Semantics for Goals and Commitments

A Programming Approach to Collective Autonomy

Norm emergence in multiagent systems: a viewpoint paper

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