Prevention of harmful behaviors within cognitive and autonomous agents

  • Authors:
  • Caroline Chopinaud;Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni;Patrick Taillibert

  • Affiliations:
  • LIP6, France, email: caroline.chopinaud@lip6.fr;LIP6, France, email: amal.elfallah@lip6.fr;Thales Aerospace, France, email: patrick.taillibert@fr.thalesgroup.com

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 conference on ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 29 -- September 1, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Being able to ensure that a multiagent system will not generate undesirable behaviors is essential within the context of critical applications (embedded systems or real-time systems). The emergence of behaviors from the agents interaction can generate situations incompatible with the expected system execution. The standard methods to validate a multiagent system do not prevent the occurrence of undesirable behaviors during its execution in real condition. We propose a complementary approach of dynamic self-monitoring and self-regulation allowing the agents to control their own behavior. This paper goes on to present the automatic generation of self-controlled agents. We use the observer approach to verify that the agents behavior respects a set of laws throughout the system execution.