Keynote Speech: Computational Collective Intelligence and Knowledge Inconsistency in Multi-agent Environments

  • Authors:

  • Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute of Computer Science, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland 50-370

  • Venue:
  • PRIMA '08 Proceedings of the 11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Multi-Agents: Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

It is well-known that the knowledge of a group is not the sameas the union of knowledge states of the group members. Let'sconsider several two examples. If an agent A knows that a b and if an agent B knows that b c for some real numbers variables a , b and c , then together these agents know not only a b and b c , but also a c . If, in another case, A knows that a ≥b and B knows that b ≥ a thentogether they know also that a = b . One can thenstate that the power of the collective knowledge exists owing tothe inconsistency of knowledge of its members.