Noe: Norm Emergence and Robustness Based on Emotions in Multiagent Systems

Sz Ting Tzeng*, Nirav Ajmeri, Munindar P. Singh

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Social norms characterize collective and acceptable group conducts in human society. Furthermore, some social norms emerge from interactions of agents or humans. To achieve agent autonomy and make norm satisfaction explainable, we include emotions into the normative reasoning process, which evaluates whether to comply or violate a norm. Specifically, before selecting an action to execute, an agent observes the environment and infers the state and consequences with its internal states after norm satisfaction or violation of a social norm. Both norm satisfaction and violation provoke further emotions, and the subsequent emotions affect norm enforcement. This paper investigates how modeling emotions affect the emergence and robustness of social norms via social simulation experiments. We find that an ability in agents to consider emotional responses to the outcomes of norm satisfaction and violation (1) promotes norm compliance; and (2) improves societal welfare.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCoordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems XIV - International Workshop, COINE 2021, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsAndreas Theodorou, Juan Carlos Nieves, Marina De Vos
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages62-77
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783031166167
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Oct 2022
EventInternational Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems, COINE 2021, Co-located with the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 3 May 20213 May 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13239 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems, COINE 2021, Co-located with the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period3/05/213/05/21

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
STT and MPS thank the NSF for partial support under grant IIS-1908374.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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