An infection-based mechanism in large convention spaces
COIN'09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
Comparison of Topologies in Peer-to-Peer Data Sharing Networks
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence
Robust coordination in large convention spaces
AI Communications - European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS) 2009
Using a two-level multi-agent system architecture
COIN@AAMAS'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms in agent systems
A case-based reasoning approach for norm adaptation
HAIS'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems - Volume Part II
Robust convention emergence in social networks through self-reinforcing structures dissolution
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
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Distributed mechanisms that regulate the behavior of autonomous agents in open multi-agent systems (MAS) are of high interest since we cannot employ centralized approaches relying on global knowledge. In actual-world societies,the balance between personal and social interests is self-regulated through social conventions that emerge in a decentralized manner. As such, a computational mechanism that allows to engineer the emergence of social conventions in MAS can become a highly promising tool to endow open MAS with self-regulating capabilities. To this end we propose a computational self-adapting mechanism that facilitates agents to distributively evolve their social behavior to reach the best social conventions. Our approach borrows from the social contagion phenomenon: social conventions are akin to infectious diseases that spread themselves through members of the society. Furthermore, we experimentally show that our mechanism helps a MAS to regulate itself by searching and establishing (better) social conventions on a wide range of interaction topologies and dynamic environments.