Friends no more: norm enforcement in multiagent systems

  • Authors:
  • Adrian Perreau de Pinninck;Carles Sierra;Marco Schorlemmer

  • Affiliations:
  • CSIC - Spanish National Research Council, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain;CSIC - Spanish National Research Council, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain;CSIC - Spanish National Research Council, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We propose a new distributed mechanism to enforce norms by ostracizing agents that do not abide by them. Our simulations have shown that, although complete ostracism is not always possible, the mechanism substantially reduces the number of norm violations.