Achieving emergent governance in competitive multi-agent systems

URL:	http://ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2020/pdfs/p220...
Additional URL:	https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/3398761.3399126
Document Type:	Conference or workshop publication
Year of publication:	2020
Book title:	AAMAS '20 : Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Auckland, Nea Zealand, May 2020
Page range:	2204-2206
Conference title:	AAMAS '20
Location of the conference venue:	Auckland, New Zealand
Date of the conference:	09.-13.05.2020
Publisher:	An, Bo
Place of publication:	New York, NY
Publishing house:	ACM Digital Library
ISBN:	978-1-4503-7518-4
ISSN:	2523-5699
Related URLs:	https://underline.io/lecture/126-achievi...
Publication language:	English
Institution:	Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Institut für Enterprise Systems (InES)
Subject:	004 Computer science, internet
Keywords (English):	Multi-Agent System , Self-interested Agents , Competition , Emergent Governance , Normative System , Cooperation , Mechanism Design
Abstract:	Our PhD research is concerned with the task of achieving cooperation in a system of competitive agents which cannot be explicitly controlled. To this end, it examines the problem from the system’s point of view, without restricting the agents’ behavior or requiring specific knowledge about their decision-making. The governance of the MAS will be achieved via a dynamically adaptive governing policy based on a set of rules, which leaves full autonomy to the individual agents, but reacts to their actions via suitable changes of the environment. The mechanism is designed to lead to system-level cooperation while only assuming that the agents follow their own self-interested motives.