The Use of Norms Violations to Model Agents Behavioral Variety

  • Authors:
  • Benoit Lacroix;Philippe Mathieu;Andras Kemeny

  • Affiliations:
  • Renault, Technical Center for Simulation, Guyancourt Cedex, France 78288 and LIFL - CNRS UMR 8022 University of Lille - Cite Scientifique Bat. M3, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France 59655;LIFL - CNRS UMR 8022 University of Lille - Cite Scientifique Bat. M3, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France 59655;Renault, Technical Center for Simulation, Guyancourt Cedex, France 78288

  • Venue:
  • Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In multi-agent applications, normative systems are usually used to regulate the behavior of the agents. They provide an efficient means to ensure limited deviations from an expected ideal behavior. Many works have been done in this classical research direction, less frequent are the works on norms in simulation. In this paper we focus on the simulation of spatially situated agents, typically moving around simulated physical environments. Our goal is to provide a mechanism allowing an efficient generation of consistent agents characteristics. We propose to model behavioral differentiation as violations of the norms, and show its application to traffic simulation with the driving simulation software used at Renault, scan er TM.