Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

10-2017

Abstract

In multiagent systems, social norms serves as an important technique in regulating agents’ behaviors to ensure effective coordination among agents without a centralized controlling mechanism. In such a distributed environment, it is important to investigate how a desirable social norm can be synthesized in a bottom-up manner among agents through repeated local interactions and learning techniques. In this article, we propose two novel learning strategies under the collective learning framework, collective learning EV-l and collective learning EV-g, to efficiently facilitate the emergence of social norms. Extensive simulations results show that both learning strategies can support the emergence of desirable social norms more efficiently and be applicable in a wider range of multiagent interaction scenarios compared with previous work. The influence of different topologies is investigated, which shows that the performance of all strategies is robust across different network topologies. The influences of a number of key factors (neighborhood size, actions space, population size, fixed agents and isolated subpopulations) on norm emergence performance are investigated as well.

Keywords

Norm emergence, multiagent collective learning

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

Volume

12

Issue

4

First Page

23:1

Last Page

23:20

ISSN

1556-4665

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Embargo Period

4-25-2021

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3127498

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