Forbidding undesirable agreements: a dependence-based approach to the regulation of multi-agent systems

  • Authors:
  • Paolo Turrini;Davide Grossi;Jan Broersen;John-Jules Ch. Meyer

  • Affiliations:
  • Utrecht University, The Netherlands;University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Utrecht University, The Netherlands;Utrecht University, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • DEON'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Deontic logic in computer science
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The purpose of this contribution is to set up a language to evaluate the results of concerted action among interdependent agents against predetermined properties that we can recognise as desirable from a deontic point of view. Unlike the standard view of logics to reason about coalitionally rational action, the capacity of a set of agents to take a rational decision will be restricted to what we will call agreements, that can be seen as solution concepts to a dependence structure present in a certain game. The language will identify in concise terms those agreements that act accordingly or disaccordinglywith the desirable properties arbitrarily set up in the beginning, and will reveal, by logical reasoning, a variety of structural properties of this type of collective action.