Changing Institutional Goals and Beliefs of Autonomous Agents

  • Authors:
  • Guido Boella;Leendert Torre;Serena Villata

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Turin, Italy;Computer Science and Communication, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg;Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Turin, Italy

  • 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

Agents are autonomous and thus their goals and beliefs cannot be changed by other agents or the environment, but from outside the agents we can change their institutional goals and beliefs, that is, the responsibilities and powers associated with their roles. In this paper, we introduce a model of institutional dynamics, where the dynamics of an institution is modeled by the creation or removal of responsibilities and powers. We illustrate the change of institutional goals and beliefs using a government scenario.