BYTE - Lecture notes in computer science Vol. 174
Guarantees for autonomy in cognitive agent architecture
ECAI-94 Proceedings of the workshop on agent theories, architectures, and languages on Intelligent agents
Models, Processes and Algorithms: Towards a Simulation Toolkit
Tools and Techniques for Social Science Simulation
Tax compliance in a simulated heterogeneous multi-agent society
MABS'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation
Sensitivity Analysis of a Tax Evasion Model Applying Automated Design of Experiments
EPIA '09 Proceedings of the 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Progress in Artificial Intelligence
Tax compliance through MABS: the case of indirect taxes
EPIA'07 Proceedings of the aritficial intelligence 13th Portuguese conference on Progress in artificial intelligence
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Tax compliance is a field that crosses over several research areas, from economics to machine learning, from sociology to artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems. The core of the problem is that the standing general theories cannot even explain why people comply as much as they do, much less make predictions or support prescriptions for the public entities. The compliance decision is a challenge posed to rational choice theory, and one that defies the current choice mechanisms in multi-agent systems. The key idea of this project is that by considering rationally-heterogeneous agents immersed in a highly social environment we can get hold of a better grasp of what is really involved in the individual decisions. Moreover, we aim at understanding how those decisions determine tendencies for the behaviour of the whole society, and how in turn those tendencies influence individual behaviour. This paper presents the results of some exploratory simulations carried out to uncover regularities, correlations and trends in the models that represent first and then expand the standard theories on the field. We conclude that forces like social imitation and local neighbourhood enforcement and reputation are far more important than individual perception of expected utility maximising, in what respects compliance decisions.